Chaos outside ICE detention center where hundreds of migrants are on hunger strike as protesters storm facility and senator is pepper-sprayed

Daily Mail UK ^ | May 26, 2026 | Stephen M. Lepore

[Morgana]

A US Senator was tear gassed amid chaotic protests outside a New Jersey ICE facility on Monday after the state's governor was denied entry in what the Department of Homeland Security called 'a political stunt.'

Anti-ICE protesters have hounded Delaney Hall in Newark for days amid a hunger and labor strike launched by hundreds of detainees inside, according to The New Jersey Monitor.

The facility has been a point of controversy during the second Trump administration, with multiple Democrat politicians demanding its closure over concerns of poor conditions.

The migrants claim that they have been served beans and salad with worms inside, of being placed in crowded rooms without air conditioning and having their immigration cases ignored by federal judges. Some have been there for a year.

Governor Mikie Sherrill and Senator Andy Kim, alongside several members of the state's Dem-heavy Congressional delegation, showed up to the building Monday demanding answers.

While Kim was allowed in the building, shortly after he was hit by pepper balls shot out by federal agents at those protesting.

'What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,' Kim told NJ.com, adding that he had trouble breathing.

Kim - who said earlier Monday the facility should be shut down 'immediately' - said before the melee broke out that he was trying to get the agents to stop pointing guns at protesters and broker a truce that would allow immigration activists to inspect cars leaving the facility.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; andykim; dailyfail; delaneyhall; democrats; domesticenemies; ice; illegalaliens; illegals; immigration; incitement; lordhawhawmedia; mikiesherrill; newark; newjersey; violence

[Uncle Miltie]

Prolly got fat off America and could use to repatriate a more local size.

[neverevergiveup]

There is no hunger strike in the facility; that is a lie, and “journalists” who do not investigate allegations before reporting them should not be journalists.

They're not.