Protesters clash with ICE as NJ detention facility demonstrations continue

Protesters continued demonstrations astatine Newark, New Jersey's Delaney Hall detention installation Tuesday, clashing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arsenic they carried play protests into Tuesday.

Video shows migration authorities shoving a pistillate done a enactment of masked and equipped guards and threatening to deploy capsicum spray arsenic protesters shouted astatine the agents.

"You're implicit present breaking up, separating families, taking them away! WHY?" 1 protester screamed successful the agents' faces.

Further clashes got carnal erstwhile a protester shoved a megaphone successful an agents look and the cause grabbed the device. Other agents began advancing connected protesters and the 2 sides physically collided concisely earlier the confrontation dissipated.

The clashes extended a play protestation implicit conditions for detainees successful the facility, prompted by an evident hunger onslaught undertaken by the detainees themselves.

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300 of the facility's detainees wrote an unfastened missive claiming that detainees with HIV, crab and different diseases were not receiving due aesculapian attraction and that different detainees were not being fed sufficiently and did not person opportunities to talk to their families.

DHS disputed these claims. "The facts are each detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, cleanable water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries. Illegal aliens besides person entree to phones to pass with their household members and lawyers," the bureau said successful a statement.

"Certified dieticians measure meals. In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than astir U.S. prisons that clasp existent U.S. citizens," the connection continued.

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"It is simply a longstanding signifier to supply broad aesculapian attraction from the infinitesimal an alien enters ICE custody. This includes medical, dental, and intelligence wellness services arsenic available, and entree to aesculapian appointments and 24-hour exigency care. For galore amerciable aliens, this is the champion healthcare they person received their full lives," connection said.

The GEO Group, which privately operates Delaney Hall, besides denied the accusations successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"The enactment services GEO provides see around-the-clock access to medical care, in-person and virtual ineligible and household visitation, wide and ineligible room access, translation services, dietician-approved meals, spiritual and specialty diets, recreational amenities, and opportunities to signifier their spiritual beliefs. Additionally, each of GEO’s ICE Processing Centers are independently accredited by the American Correctional Association and the National Commission connected Correctional Health Care," the connection read.

"At locations wherever GEO provides wellness attraction services, individuals are provided with entree to teams of aesculapian professionals including physicians, nurses, dentists, psychologists, and psychiatrists.  Ready entree to off-site aesculapian specialists, imaging facilities, Emergency Medical Services, and section assemblage hospitals is besides provided erstwhile needed," the connection continued.

The demonstrations brought salient New Jersey Democrats to the forefront, including Sen. Andy Kim and Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., basal extracurricular Newark, New Jersey's Delaney Hall detention halfway during a protestation 5/25/26. (Governor Mikie Sherrill)

While Kim was allowed introduction to the facility, Sherrill was denied. "My petition to entree the installation was denied this morning, raising adjacent much questions astir what they are trying to fell from nationalist view. I’ll support warring for answers and to clasp ICE accountable," Sherrill said successful a Facebook post.

Kim was allowed to participate and behaviour his legislature oversight responsibilities aft personally calling Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, a DHS spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital.

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A surveillance camera is mounted extracurricular Delaney Hall, a detention halfway operated by GEO Group for Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful Newark, N.J., connected May 10, 2025. (Reuters/Bing Guan/File Photo)

DHS besides criticized Sherrill's visit, casting it arsenic governmental theater. "Governor Sherrill’s sojourn to Delaney Hall is thing much than a governmental stunt connected Memorial Day when visitation is presently suspended owed to riots extracurricular the facility," the spokesperson antecedently told Fox News Digital. "Yesterday, astir 125 agitators surrounded Delaney Hall Detention Facility, galore carrying anti-ICE signs and Antifa flags. They formed a quality concatenation astir entrances to the installation and acceptable up barricades, blocking each entries and exits."

Other New Jersey Democrats to instrumentality portion successful the protests oregon sojourn the detention halfway included Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. and Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who was arrested and charged federally successful 2025 for allegedly assaulting an serviceman astatine Delaney Hall successful 2025. McIver pleaded not blameworthy and is scheduled to look earlier the Third Circuit Court of Appeals connected June 23 to entreaty a national judge's refusal to disregard her charges.

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

Fox News Digital contacted ICE, Sen. Kim, Gov. Sherrill, and Reps. McIver and Menendez for further comment.