Earlier today, members of Congress held a hearing where they questioned officials from the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security over their immigration enforcement policies and recent actions.

Now, the hearing held in the House Committee on Homeland Security included two of New Jersey's representatives, Congresswomen LaMonica McIver and Nellie Poe.

Poe introduced a bill on Monday called the Plate Act that prohibits ICE agents from obscuring or removing their license plates.

Poe sent a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem last week saying that federal immigration agents are breaking state laws by removing or swapping their license plates during operations, calling it a "blatant disregard for the rule of law."

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman also introduced a bill this week, hers called the Fundamental Immigration Fairness Act, or FIFA, that prohibits DHS from arresting or detaining anyone going to or coming from an immigration hearing or a DHS office.

Watson-Coleman stated that "immigrants attempting to follow immigration laws should not be punished for their good-faith efforts."

Well, during today's hearing, McIver, who at one point was admonished for a lack of decorum, offered a scathing rebuke of recent DHS operations.

This is the despicable or predictable result of an agency that laughs at oversight, receives billions to deploy lethal force on our neighborhoods, and seems to believe that they are above the law and should be without accountability.

This administration believes it can act first, explain later, or hell, never explain at all.

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