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José Olivares in Newark, Richard Luscombe and Victoria Bekiempis

US senator says he was pepper-sprayed by federal agents during protest at ICE facility

a man in a suit stands among law enforcement agents
Andy Kim outside the Delaney Hall detention center on 25 May 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

Protests continued on Tuesday outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey where US senator Andy Kim said he was pepper-sprayed by federal agents the day before during a demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside the facility.

Video posted on social media showed Kim, a Democrat representing New Jersey, receiving help from a volunteer on Monday, who is seen pouring water in his eyes outside Delaney Hall in Newark, where detainees have said they are staging a hunger strike against poor conditions and the denial of medical care.

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