Dem Congress members storm New Jersey ICE prison to conduct 'oversight visit': 'People deserve dignity'

Three members of Congress stormed done the gates of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention installation successful New Jersey connected Friday, demanding they beryllium allowed to behaviour an "oversight visit."

Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver, each New Jersey Democrats, entered ICE's Delaney Hall detention installation successful Newark and were held up wrong the archetypal checkpoint, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News.

"These members of Congress storming into a detention installation goes beyond bizarre governmental stunt and puts the information of our instrumentality enforcement agents and the detainees astatine risk," a DHS connection to Fox News said. "Members of Congress are not supra the instrumentality and cannot illegally interruption into detention facilities. Had these members requested a tour, we would person facilitated a circuit of the facility. This is an evolving situation."

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Members of Congress tempest ICE detention installation successful New Jersey. (X / @RepBonnie)

The situation presently holds alleged killers, MS-13 pack members, kid rapists, among different transgression offenders. 

The lawmakers were extracurricular the installation with a radical of protesters erstwhile the gates opened to let an ICE autobus in. The lawmakers past rushed done the gates and past security, DHS said.

Activists person demanded introduction into the installation successful caller days, saying the GEO Group, the building’s caller owner, is unlawfully preventing it from being inspected.

"We’re astatine Delaney Hall, an ICE situation successful Newark that opened without support from the metropolis & successful usurpation of section ordinances," Coleman wrote connected X. "We’ve heard stories of what it’s similar successful different ICE prisons. We’re exercising our oversight authorization to spot for ourselves."

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Members of Congress bust into ICE detention installation successful New Jersey (X / @RepBonnie)

McIver said the "lack of transparency astir what’s happening with ICE successful this installation is unacceptable. People merit dignity and we request answers."

In a property league connected Monday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said GEO Group is "following the signifier of the president of the United States who believes that helium tin conscionable bash what helium wants to bash and obscure the laws, nationalist and law laws, and they deliberation they tin bash the aforesaid happening successful the authorities of New Jersey and successful Newark."

On Friday, Baraka was taken into custody astatine the facility, according to Alina Habba, the U.S. lawyer for New Jersey. 

"The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored aggregate warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to region himself from the ICE detention halfway successful Newark, New Jersey this afternoon," Habba wrote connected X. "He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That volition not basal successful this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW."

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A suit filed connected behalf of the City of Newark connected April 1 alleges that GEO Group failed to licence introduction to information inspectors and violated metropolis operation code, including by conducting electrical and plumbing renovations without due oversight.

The Department of Homeland Security said the allegations by Newark politicians that Delaney does not person the due permitting is false. 

"We person valid permits and inspection from plumbing, energy to occurrence codes has been cleared," the bureau said. 

Fox News Digital's Max Bacall contributed to this report.