“In blue cities across the country, I can guarantee you, you’re going to see more organized and paid for protests, rioters like this,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Company Tuesday.
Detainees at the facility on a hunger strike have blasted the living conditions inside the center.
The New Jersey attorney general filed a lawsuit against Delaney Hall on Tuesday, after Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) raised concerns that she was not given full access to the facility.
Concha argued that the protests served as a point of political gain for Sherrill, and criticized her for blaming ICE for the violence.
Sherrill has previously stated, “We simply cannot let ICE surge into our community,” and that “an increased ICE surge in the area outside of Delaney Hall is a threat to public safety.”
“At this point, she is pouring kerosene on this five-alarm fire,” Concha said.
He said that Sherrill ran
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