ICE facility Democrats 'stormed' holds child rapists, murderers: officials
Suspected murderers, terrorists, child rapists and MS-13 gang members held at Dem-contested ICE facility
Alexandra Koch By Alexandra Koch , Alex Nitzberg Fox News
Published May 10, 2025 5:35pm EDT
Body camera footage shows things getting physical during chaotic scene at Delaney Hall Detention Center
Democratic lawmakers and protesters on Friday stormed the gate of Delaney Hall Detention Center, a secure immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey, to advocate for detainees Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin categorized as "murderers, terrorists, child rapists and MS-13 gang members."
A group of protesters, including members of Congress, chased after a bus of detainees entering the security gate, before storming the gate and breaking into the facility, according to a news release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Screenshot from body camera video
Rep. LaMonica McIver can be seen wearing red in this screenshot from the body camera footage DHS provided to Fox News (Department of Homeland Security)
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., later wrote in an X post that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "shoved" her and "manhandled" Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J.
Yet, Homeland Security footage posted to X on Saturday appears to show McIver pushing and elbowing officials as they stood defending the gate.
DHS posted on X, "Meet who the New Jersey lawmakers are fighting for:"
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