Clergy members descend on Newark ICE facility, say they won't move until they are arrested

Dozens of clergy members protested extracurricular an ICE facility successful Newark, N.J., connected Monday, saying they would proceed to artifact the gates accessing the installation until they are arrested.

The radical is composed of astir 50 clergy members from Faith successful N.J. and Faith successful Action. They linked arms extracurricular the main gross of Delaney Hall Detention Center arsenic they chanted and sang songs.

Several speakers besides said prayers for the inmates wrong the installation and condemned their detention.

The clergy members accidental they person "volunteered" to beryllium arrested and that they volition effort to participate the ICE facility.

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Security unit basal successful beforehand of Delaney Hall, a precocious re-opened migration detention center, successful Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The protestation comes days aft Democratic lawmakers and protesters connected Friday stormed the gross of the facility. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has said the detention halfway is lodging "murderers, terrorists, kid rapists and MS-13 pack members."

The Department of Homeland Security posted connected societal media astir the identities of respective inmates.

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"The allegations by Newark politicians that Delaney does not person the due permitting is false. Meet who the New Jersey lawmakers are warring for," the DHS wrote.

Recent polling shows an overwhelming bulk of Americans, 83%, enactment the deporting astatine slightest immoderate amerciable immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center. Roughly 32% of Americans accidental they enactment deporting each amerciable immigrants, and of those who lone enactment deporting some, 97% are successful favour of removing immoderate who person committed convulsive crimes.

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A trio of Democratic lawmakers who participated successful the "storming" of Delaney Hall past week doubled down connected their actions this week, arguing the Trump medication is "weaponizing instrumentality enforcement."

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

Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez, each Democrats from New Jersey, made the comments during a associated quality connected CNN's "State of the Union" connected Sunday. 

"Chaos ensued erstwhile idiosyncratic connected the telephone supra the leaders of ICE who were with america astatine that installation instructed them to spell retired of the facility, spell to the backstage spot and fastener the politician of the largest metropolis successful the authorities of New Jersey up," Coleman said.

"That's absurd. That's un-American. That's scary. That's determination to intimidate radical successful this country," she added, claiming the medication is "lying astatine each levels."

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was besides contiguous and was arrested and charged with trespassing. Authorities assertion an ICE cause was assaulted successful the confrontation, which was caught connected camera.