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ICE pepper-sprays Sen. Andy Kim at Delaney Hall protest in Newark

newsMay 25, 20262510,849

ICE agents fired pepper spray at protesters and New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim outside Delaney Hall, a federal immigration detention center in Newark, as family members and advocates gathered. Sen. Andy Kim said he had trouble breathing from the spray and called the scene "It's sad, it's a sad day" while detainees had begun a hunger strike to protest conditions and lack of information for relatives. The confrontation spotlights questions about ICE crowd-control tactics and detainee treatment and increases pressure for congressional oversight and local accountability.

Indivisible ❌👑
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“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.

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Texting Menace113

What the hell is going on in there that they refuse to let in elected officials who have every right to inspect the facility

Michael D51

Abolish ICE, and put every one of them in prison.

Maire Athena33

They need to be dismantled there is no reforming this.

lady-dem.bsky.social32

We need to get rid of ICE, Trump and every Republican in Congress‼️

💙Joani in the sky with cubic zirconia 💙26

That’s OUTRAGEOUS! All laws are being violated by this corrupt regime! 🤬

JosephWelchVI23

My career as a NYPD Detective confirms only outlaws wear masks. All of these ICE cocksuckers will be held to account in the future. They’ll never get away. I’m volunteering to work pro bono as an expert witness for their prosecutions. Hit me up Mr. D.A. #FuckICE #BitchAssPunks

jeanrhode.bsky.social17

ICE is a bunch of loser thugs who need to be stop. And f--k them for hurting one of the best senators we have

Joanne💋💙16

Outrageous terrorists is what they truly are. 😤😤

CLE14

Something needs to be done NOW. This is assault by autocratic government.

BluesterB14

New Jersey, get organized! go.bsky.app/5ECLfeL

Japancy11

The cruelty is the point.

Zombiekat11

I want every last one of them behind bars getting the same treatment they are giving immigrants now

David10

Isn’t illegal to pepper spray a crowd of peaceful protesters? cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/05/memo...

carpenter22.bsky.social9

Is this an assault on a seated congressman?

Lori 🇺🇦💩🐸👑9

Well I hope that ICE agent has been arrested for assault.

Texting Menace8

They won't let the Governor in either

Hold My Beer ❌👑🐸🇲🇽🇨🇦7

oh good god do NOT put water on it, people!!!! makes it way worse!!!!!

Margueriteathome7

How dare they attack a sitting senator. Close Delaney Hall down. Get ICE out of NJ.

democracy4u.bsky.social7

mob boss Trump has private gestapo

Hank7

It is an outrage in the United States of America that some low-life ICE goon can pepper spray a Senator and innocent protesters and get away with it. It was an assault, cut and dry.

Brenda, NO KINGS 👑 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🐸🐸7

These Ice holes need to be arrested and put in jail.

MikeCalimari7

What the SCROTUS* has done to the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments the next Liberal majority court should do to the Second. *Supreme Court Republicans Of The United States.

stixandstones50.bsky.social6

Isn’t there SOMETHING that can be done for attacking a government official???

Mummer6

Oh no. Love Sen. Kim. He's a helper and a 'good one'.

Doreen6

@kim.senate.gov I am so sorry the Nazi ICE offers did this to you! Not one penny should go to fund this rogue agency.

Linda HLH6

Most of all we will hold every single Republican accountable because they could end this today they are violating their oath to the Constitution they are supporting lawlessness and cruelty the Republican regime is the corrupt cruel monster behind this never GOP again never ever again never ever

Bob Witanek, Editor, FightBackBetter News6

Impeach em all proposal - what do you think? #ImpeachEmAll fightbackbetter.com/impeach-em-a...

voteoutallthosemfs 🌊🌊🌊6

. Attacking a United States senator is a federal offense under 18 U.S. Code § 351 or 18 U.S. Code § 115 Simple Assault: Up to 1 year in prison and a fine Assault with Dangerous Weapon Resulting in Bodily Injury Up to 10 years in prison and a fine

Public Enemy#6665

That's assault!!! Those fuckheads need to be in prison, ALL OF THEM!!! #abolishICE

Susan Behrens5

The Regime pepper sprays a sitting US Senator Andy Kim. Don’t forget they also roughed up Democratic Senator Alex Padilla when he tried to ask then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question. There has to be some recourse for assaulting sitting US Senators for no reason.

FunnyFeminist5

A sitting senator shouldn’t be protesting outside an immigration detention center. He should be immediately allowed inside to see what’s happening in there.

Dr. Ditch 🇺🇸🌍💙✊🏾🇨🇦🇲🇽5

BREAKING: In a statement from U.S. Central Command, military officials said the strikes were designed "to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces." Protect what troops? According to Trump, we didn’t have any troops there ! More lies and more bullshit www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

SILENCE IS NOT GOLDEN5

Make this illegal!!! The Governor can do it. Start arresting the Iceholes for assault.

📎The Ghost Army of Fellas!5

There is no reason for them to exist.

ponies3.bsky.social5

@crow.house.gov @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.senate.gov This shit okay with you? Not another flipping cent.

JB5

I applaud the Senator. Every Dem congressperson should be leading this way.

On life's Journey4

WHAT atrocities are ICE hiding? Are there crimes so horrendously cruelly illegal as well as immoral that ICE must hide from the US public? #WhatCrimesAreICEhiding Those who follow the law have NO NEED to hide from public scrutiny. ICE IS. WHAT are they hiding?? jerseyvindicator.org/2026/05/25/n...

jeff belli4

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Roma4

Senator Andy Kim - the same man who helped clean the human piss and feces off the walls of our Capital after Jan 6

lyn-lynette.bsky.social4

All the magat traitors in congress will be gone in November and then justice comes for their crimes. Not revenge like dump but justice.

Q4

I believe prisons, whether private or state owned, are subjected to the same health and safety laws that restaurants schools food trucks, senior assisted living have to follow. Is there any reason that a state cannot shut down this operation as they would shut down any restaurant in violation?

New old sound guy4

Protesting is allowed by the first amendment. This is assault.

buckhurst.bsky.social4

Similar incidents happened in HK during 2019 protest movement. HK police fired pepper spray to HK legislative members who were helping to moderate the situation between protesters and police. The result - National Security Law introduced, thousands of activists jailed

Michelle4

The ICE participants are out of control. They joined ICE for the money and stayed so they could abuse and oppress other people. They like being violent. ALSO, it should illegal to use "Pepper Spray" on citizens in the United States, particularly Senators doing their job.

Ciaojude3

ICE cosplaying immigration vigilantes. How admin officials can defend this is beyond belief

Irminsul, Composer3

Oh they'll be held accountable. Guarantee on that

Newell Baldelli3

Assaulting a US Senator with impunity. Proud Boys, er, I mean ICE get more empowered every day by this diabolical regime.

❌👑 Citizen VBates3

Look at the little boy behind him. I wonder what his sign says? What a sad state for our children.

MiaNJ ❌👑3

Not another penny? Arrest these terrorists! Where’s our National Guard. Where’s the NJSP?

Howard Beale Lives3

World Cup fans planning a USA visit: "COME HERE , DISAPPEAR" Has a nice ring to it, huh? Pro tips: ✔️ get a tracking chip put in your body so in case you get abducted by ICE your family can know your whereabouts ✔️ only burner phones ✔️ only cash ✔️ stealth like a criminal, you'll be treated as one

Wandqueen3

Fuck ICE and fuck all of it. 🤬

prunesqualler.bsky.social3

Doesn’t he have a protective team? Why didn’t they prevent that attack by drawing their guns?

petrachor.bsky.social3

Leaving no doubt that left to their own devices, these horrid people would follow the patterns of torturers throughout time. Because they love it and get off on it. PURE EVIL.

Mister Sterling3

Hopefully Senator Kim can now join the Abolish Ice movement.

Hiraku ||🜬 ⚣ || 🐇♍♋♒ || 🇹🇼🇲🇲🇨🇳3

Please tell your Wake County chapter in NC to come to the ICE watch verifier training they've signed up to attend to at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church.

Desert Dweller3

I truly feel that Senator Kim is one of the best of us. Saddening, enraging and terrible.

zoemom.bsky.social3

None of these places should be privately run!

plymouthsuperbird.bsky.social2

And hopefully they send them to Rickers Island for their sentence

tchalla8282020.bsky.social2

When this shit show settles down democrats BETTER charge each and everyone of these assholes with treason and not let them get continuances until they die prosecute them and let them die in prison and bury them in the yard near the fence and salt the ground so nothing grows ever again!

Anonymous Artist2

Iced agents will be held accountable in the future. Image by anonymous. #magamafia

messenger611.bsky.social2

Rise We are many Courage is contagious Together we will overcome Freedom requires sacrifice We will Rise up now.

mac124.bsky.social2

This is what i am posting to maga accounts on x: How is Trump’s extortion of others any different than the mafia? Trump is extorting billions from the American people! WT-F🤮hmgj

njpjresists.bsky.social2

Senator Kim was cleaning shit off the walls on J6!

pky55.bsky.social2

How many repub senators have been pepper sprayed like Senator Kim or thrown to the floor and handcuffed like Senator Padilla? I wonder if they would still love ice if they got the same treatment?

ena2

There's a humanitarian crisis in there and no one can get a court order to get people released?

🇺🇲Shad🇨🇦🇺🇦🇩🇰🇮🇹2

Elected officials doing performance art. Bring a force. Do not take NO for an answer. Get in there.

Shadowwolf _672

ICE funding should be permanently stopped. Until the fucking cowards in the house and senate pass a proper immigration bill. None of the fucking racist bull shit of Trump! Every South African white refugees should be deported! Immediately and placed on a terrorist watch list.

Serafina2

Imagine pepper spraying the man who chose to stick around after the insurrection to clean up the mess these traitors made.

Keeper of the Way2

that's not keeping people safe it's performative

CalArtnArchaeology2

This country is like this because of your assets and retirement, they prevent you from helping end the shit show. Your fear of retribution and punishment, losing your job and your home. Just wait, if you don't risk it now, you'll lose it all anyway.

oopie2

"Here!" "Carry a gun!" Haven't you learned yet?

Wendy Bird32

Why didn’t local and state police protect the Senator and the others????😡🤬

Jersey Girl in Florida2

Senator Kim I hope you lawyer up. OMFG

mmothnadine.bsky.social2

🤔 If you don’t include the date then we don’t know when this happened or is that your intention = To Keep US 🇺🇸 Outraged- Which We Should Be But For Things That Are Current + Relevant

wingtips.bsky.social2

Nothing enrages MAGA and ICE more than the sight of a decent, kind and humane person like Sen. Kim.

RandyWOKE-Pride2

Where are we gonna go? They’re coming for all of us. Everybody understands that now I hope.

TJ5052

Headlines should read: "Senator Speaks Truth & Gets Punished BY Dictator's Personal Army".

nomeka.bsky.social2

Intimidation to avoid intruders discovering atrocities. Detainess rapes, murders, mal nourish, no hygiene. These prison boss is now dhs boss also pushing quotas for human traffick and kidnaping to charge gov. your taxes.

Frances Gandy Walsh2

Ban them from the State of NJ, and it's cities.

1stladydi.bsky.social2

Fox covering this? A sitting senator getting pepper sprayed by a troglodyte?

Ruth Delgado
@heylookitsruth.bsky.social

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

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bikerlady.bsky.social108

I see Senator Kim there as well. Thank you to all of our representatives who refuse to let cruelty continue in our midst.

Dawn68

Can’t a governor call the national guard and get it shut down?? Or is that only if the national govt. weren’t nazis?

kfr55

Here's an idea: as long as the deny Sherrill and Kim (and any other representatives for that matter) block any additional detention facilitators from entering. As ICE employees try to exit arrest each person for obstruction! You see she's the govt. here in NJ! She has that power.

august.thoughtify.space38

Last I checked, the governor was at the head of the NJ State Guard (the state’s military force independent of the National Guard), and with the most basic showing of probable cause in front of a judge, could force entry with police and military elements.

Jan Johnson 23

Obviously, the statute that allows Members of Congress to visit, without notice, to do oversight needs to be amended to allow state and local elected officials to do the same thing.

Avery Bullard20

Get a court order call out the National Guard...

PlantDoctorMD18

Hmmm well aren’t those state owned roads leading to the facility? Would be a shame if they all needed brought up to state code and construction took years Do the vendors supplying that facility need state business licenses? Do the power & water companies need state permits to run that facility?

Rob the D13

Just turn off the water and electricity, have drones drop bolt cutting tools to the political prisoners and stand up the national guard

Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid12

The courts have already ruled that ICE cannot do this. The trump cabal is a bunch of criminals and illegitimate.

Polly Curley8

If ICE said "It's Raining", I'd still look out the fucking window to check. ICE Tells Lies.

ArqArtur08

If they won’t do it the nice way…

fogelnet8

NJ Governor Sherrill should deny all DHS employees from leaving Delaney Hall until she is granted access.

Sharon ❌👑7

@nytimes.com @inquirer.com Where is your coverage of this? Seems like a page 1, above the fold, story to me.

Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop7

A reality check for those numb to the abominations of the Trump Administration: We are imprisoning people accused of committing a misdemeanor and deprive them of their freedom, then keeping them under conditions WORSE than convicted murderers, even though they do the work we do not want to do.

itbeatstwitter.bsky.social6

How can a governor be denied access to a facility in her state? I don’t care that it’s a federal facility. She should close every state road going into it, two can play this game

abentleyinfl.bsky.social6

Come back with the State Police??

JEZEBEL Blue 👀 only.5

She's a way better woman than me. I would be taking names, and go on a don't fuck with Boss Governor of NJ tour.

Shannon5

Open it with the NJ National Guard.

JustJoeLr5

**States' Rights!!!** Conservatives must be against this, for sure, amirite??

Chris⚖️Justice4

Felon Trump's Torture Camps for Profit Abuse of Power & People Over Misdemeanors

Jeff Schwartz4

Idk this is where I start arresting the ice assholes instead of playing to the media.

Craig Danuloff4

Fill the streets with garbage trucks and cement barricades until the building is useless. These politicians still pillow fight.

IMPEACH & REMOVE3

If I’m the NJ gov., I’m setting up roadblocks, calling st. police, and treating this like a mass kidnapping. I’m pulling people over as they leave and taking them in for questioning, and I’m threatening people with state charges. It’s time for state and local officials to start getting ruthless.

Tom MacIntosh3

ICE needs to be abolished and its leadership imprisoned!

Tommy Boy3

That sign says "Private Property". It's either a government installation or a military base, but it's not private property. At any rate, a legal representative of the people has every right to enter it.

Sex Crazed Salt Shaker of Death3

So much for state's rights...

snoco-iceskater.bsky.social3

Why doesn't she call in the National Guard to storm the center!? Governors' timidity is unforgivable.

Ham Roids3

Everyone denying them entry should be charged then but will it ever happen ugh

great-white-snark.bsky.social2

"DHS denies the strike is happening." WTF? Then let the Governor see for herself.

ilibeebythesea.bsky.social2

She’s the fucking Governor! This is ridiculous!

nyc5265.bsky.social2

Too bad the cops are on their side. She should be able to send the NJ State Police in.

beornblack.bsky.social2

go in with the nation guards unless this is just political and for attention.

Tigris Morte2

Does she not have State troopers, police, and guard she could mobilize to restore law and order inside the fascist concentration camp? Is this just a photo op?

Elderly Liberal2

Get your police department to forcibly let you in

R72

then gov sherrill should call in her forces and siege the facility? if no forces, raise and deputize one.

Higher Than Onix2

Who are they to deny entry??? Have them arrested!

📲 House + Senate 202-224-31212

Each governor controls that state's National Guard. What if . . . 🤔 (Except for when Trump decides to nationalize them under a self-declared emergency.)

We're Hanging by a thread2

Who the fuck do they think they are denying the GOVERNOR entry? #WTAF ? #proudblue #demvoice1 #riseup #resist #stopfascism #RemoveTheRegime

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
@50501movement.bsky.social

Happening now at Delaney Hall. Protesters are outside the facility demanding the release of Martin Soto, the leader that started a hunger and labor strike to protest inhumane conditions. iCE has rolled in a tank and is pointing their weapons on peaceful protesters that are forming a human chain.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin68

Please credit @cosecha.bsky.social for this video. They are organizing outside Delaney and the video came from them.

JustJoan 📎🧷41

A FU**ing TANK! 47's version of Tianamen Square!

CTPhipps30

It's moments like this that make me think America is in collective denial about being in a dictatorship. This is all the stuff other nations would use pictures of to show its a tyranny.

oceancalm.bsky.social18

N.J. Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she wants access to Delaney Hall ICE facility amid protests Updated on: May 25, 2026 / www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

thegloballeft.bsky.social11

The Governor is there I believe. 😵‍💫

✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️10

Brave protestors and hopefully a cowardly ICE fascist just trying to scare them off instead of commit mass murder.

Chris⚖️Justice6

Felon Trump's Terrorists Abuse of Power & People Over Misdemeanors or Less

Woke Patriotic Cats6

Using our military against our own country. Sickening

We’re Underreacting6

I see the point, but that is a paintball gun, likely with pepper balls. Also, that is not a tank, it is an armored vehicle.

Toreiro4

That looks like a paintball gun, still not cool though, that shit hurts.

🐦‍⬛🍄🐸 Ravenbearer | 8647 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱❌👑4

What the Nazi fucking bullshit is this

Antifa H.R. Manager on Blueskee3

Don't post videos if you're not going to credit the person who shot them. Credit @cosecha.bsky.social or you're not helping.

Elle3

A tank. Why the fuck does ICE have tanks?

Wildcats, Reds, & Bernie Fan2

This is what happens when a Reality TV Conman becomes President. Everything is done for TV Ratings! Cancel the Fucking Show, I’m sick of it!

Mary k2

This is how low trump has brought our country.

JustJoan 📎🧷2

47's version of Tianenmen Square.

Birdmischief2

The heart I just hit is for the protesters, not for iCE. What those latter folk are doing is utterly despicable.

Aunt Mony2

Now we need Andy Kim and Mikie with the State police and NJ national guard

We're Hanging by a thread2

WTF country is this? Tanks against citizens? This is America now. 😡

blisa1020.bsky.social2

COWARDS!!!! Fully armed against unarmed protesters!

Memewrangler2

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming... Stay safe out there

Kim Noreen2

UNFUCKING absurd that these Gestapo are decked out for war against 50 peaceful, unarmed protestors.

ordaj.bsky.social2

Why does ICE even have a tank?

The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

NEW JERSEY: “ICE agents fired pepper balls at protesters following days of unrest outside the privately run detention center… U.S. Sen. Andy Kim had trouble breathing from a cloud of pepper spray deployed protesters respond to an inmate hunger strike…” www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

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