President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is pushing back after Democrat Sen. Andy Kim said he was pepper-sprayed during a chaotic anti-ICE clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
Kim said the incident happened Monday as demonstrators swarmed outside the immigration detention facility.
Video circulating online showed volunteers pouring water into Kim’s eyes while he sat with an ice pack after the clash.
Sen. Andy Kim gets his eyes washed out by “medics” after getting between clashing federal agents and far left agitators blocking the entrance to Delaney Hall immigration detention center in NJ pic.twitter.com/kgwySgWs6F
— Elaad Eliahu (@elaadeliahu) May 25, 2026
The Trending Politics report laid out the confrontation and the competing claims around what happened:
Kim said he was pepper-sprayed as demonstrators gathered outside Delaney Hall, where advocates claimed roughly 300 detainees were involved in a hunger and work strike over conditions inside the facility. Videos showed Kim being treated outside, while other
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