Four detainees broke through a wall and managed to escape from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to Sen. Andy Kim and the Department of Homeland Security.

Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, spoke Friday outside the Delaney Hall detention center. He said he was told detainees managed to break through an interior wall that led to an exterior one and from there were able to escape to a parking lot.

More “law enforcement partners” have been brought in to find the detainees missing from Delaney Hall, according to an emailed statement attributed to a senior DHS official whom the department did not identify. The statement also didn’t specify which law enforcement agencies are involved, and authorities haven’t released the names of the escapees.

Homeland Security identified the four escapees as two Honduran and two Colombian nationals and said they had been arrested on various charges.

Newark’s mayor cited reports of a possible uprising and escape after disorder broke out at the facility Thursday night and protesters outside the center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates. Much is still unclear about what unfolded there.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a 1,000-bed facility there this year under a 15-year, $1 billion contract as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Remember, you didn't see shit.

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    Good for them. Don't want to end up in a gulag or gitmo.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Oh look, a butterfly.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I hope they remain free, and I hope it becomes a trend.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wish I could help the escapees

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    Lets get those numbers up!

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    I didn't see nothin.

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    How much are we spending on ICE, again?

    Thought I remembered reading that this was a contracted private prison. So, it's more of a problem of underfunding gov owned prisons in favor of over funding private prisons.

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    Hostages escaped from a concentration camp.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    They don't know who they might be, or where they might have gone, but they are definitely missing for sure sure. Sounds like a pretty efficient government to me, eh?!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Maybe they should have allowed those inspections

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If anybody helps to report the folks, I hope you get testicular or tit cancer.

    Yes I do wish this on these folks. Don't care.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    No decent person cares.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Can we get pictures of these people, so they can be recognized and assisted?

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