60 Minutes · New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill denied access to Newark ICE facility

1. 1. Protests escalated outside an immigration detention facility in New Jersey following a hunger strike by hundreds of detainees in Delaney Hall.
2. 2. New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill was denied access to the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility while attempting to investigate alleged inhumane conditions.
3. 3. Clashes broke out between ICE agents and protesters outside the facility, leading to the use of pepper spray, which reportedly affected Senator Andy Kim.
4. 4. Governor Mikie Sherrill stated that the denial of her access to Delaney Hall raises serious questions about what authorities might be concealing within the facility.
5. 5. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) refuted all claims of a hunger strike and "subprime conditions" at the Delaney Hall facility.
6. 6. The ACLU of New Jersey called on the federal government to heed widespread calls for the facility's closure and to end obstruction of congressional oversight.