Dem Congress Members Storm New Jersey Ice Prison To Conduct 'oversight Visit': 'people Deserve Dignity'

Three members of Congress stormed done nan 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 nan first checkpoint, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In a property convention connected Monday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said GEO Group is "following nan shape of nan president of nan United States who believes that he tin conscionable do what he wants to do and obscure nan laws, nationalist and law laws, and they deliberation they tin do nan aforesaid point successful nan authorities of New Jersey and successful Newark."

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

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