Democrat governor files ‘frivolous’ lawsuit to shut down ICE facility

Protesters have spent nearly two weeks outside a federal detention facility in Newark — forming human chains, blocking vehicle exits, and clashing with officers in riot gear. A U.S. senator got caught in a cloud of pepper spray, and New Jersey’s sitting governor, Democrat Mikie Sherrill, was turned away at the gate.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin called those incidents “nothing more than a political stunt … for fundraising clips.”

Now the state has turned to the courts.

‘A better gym than the one I go to.”

New Jersey Democrat Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced Tuesday that she had filed suit against GEO Group Inc., the private company operating Delaney Hall under a $1 billion federal contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The suit seeks to compel