‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail

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  1. SS: one of the largest private prisons in the US has seen rampant abuse of immigrants, leading them to hunger strike.

    > Protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged demonstrators outside the jail in New Jersey.

    >Following hours of relative quiet, a day after masked and armored Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel pepper-sprayed US senator Andy Kim, tensions ramped up again outside the Delaney Hall facility on the fifth day of the strike.

    > At one point on Tuesday evening, a protester who threw something at ICE officers was chased by dozens of officials, tased and then carried into the jail.

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