4 migrants escape from Newark ICE detention facility, DHS official confirms

Four migrants escaped from the Delaney Hall ICE detention installation successful Newark, New Jersey, connected Thursday evening pursuing an evident disturbance wrong the building, a elder Homeland Security authoritative confirmed to Fox News.

"Additional instrumentality enforcement partners person been brought successful to find these escapees and a BOLO has been disseminated," the authoritative said. 

Immigration lawyer Mustafa Cetin told NJ.com that astir 50 detainees astatine the backstage installation pushed down a dormitory partition aft becoming agitated erstwhile meals were delayed. 

"It’s astir the food, and immoderate of the detainees were getting assertive and it turned violent," Cetin said. 

He added that his lawsuit reported the partition was "not precise strong" and described detainees hanging bedsheets successful what whitethorn person been an flight attempt. The lawsuit besides said helium smelled state during the incident.

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Detainees astatine a Immigration and Customs Enforcement installation protested successful Newark, New Jersey, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (WNYW)

By 6 p.m., dozens of officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and Newark Police were present, according to Rutgers University-Newark prof Whitney Strub, who posted images of the constabulary beingness and said helium and others extracurricular the jailhouse "were each coughing astatine the aforesaid time," aft being exposed to what they believed was "some benignant of gas," NJ.com reported.

At astir 9 p.m., a radical of protesters blocked an SUV from exiting an ancillary gross astatine Delaney Hall, forcing it to backmost into the facility.

PIX11 News reported that the escapees were seen moving adjacent Turnpike 78 and Delancey Street.

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said his bureau was "concerned astir reports of what has transpired astatine Delaney Hall this evening, ranging from withholding nutrient and mediocre treatment, to uprising and escaped detainees." 

"This full concern lacks capable oversight of each basal item — including section zoning laws and cardinal law rights. This is wherefore metropolis officials and our legislature delegation request to beryllium allowed introduction to observe and monitor, immoderate wherefore backstage prisons airs a precise existent occupation to our authorities and its constitution," Baraka said successful a statement. "We request contiguous answers and wide connection with the GEO Group and the Department of Homeland Security. We indispensable enactment an extremity to this chaos and not let this cognition to proceed unchecked."

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The incidental comes conscionable 2 days aft Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was indicted connected 3 national charges stemming from a erstwhile sojourn to Delaney Hall connected May 9. 

McIver was with Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and others during what was described arsenic an oversight visit. Baraka was initially charged with trespassing, but the complaint was aboriginal dropped.

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Anyone with accusation astir the escaped migrants is encouraged to telephone 911 oregon the ICE Tip Line, 866-DHS-2-ICE .