Four migrants fled from the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday evening after an apparent disturbance within the building, a senior Homeland Security official told Fox News.
“Additional law enforcement partners have been brought in to find these escapees, and a BOLO has been disseminated,” the official said.
Immigration attorney Mustafa Cetin reported that the delayed meals caused around 50 prisoners at the private institution to become upset, leading them to pull down a dormitory wall.
“It’s about the food, and some of the detainees were getting aggressive and it turned violent,” Cetin said.
He noted that his client indicated that the wall was “not very strong” and that inmates were hanging bedsheets in what may have been an escape attempt. The customer additionally stated that he smelled gas during the event.
By 6 p.m., dozens of officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and Newark Police were present, according to Rutgers University-Newark professor Whitney Strub, who posted images of the police presence and stated that he and others outside the jail “were all coughing at the same time,” after being exposed to what they believed was “some kind of gas,” NJ.com reported.
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