Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday flamed detainees who launched a hunger strike at a New Jersey Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility over the weekend.
Hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark have been on a hunger strike since Friday, claiming they are being subjected to poor conditions at the ICE detention facility, WABC reported.
Mullin said Wednesday during a Cabinet meeting that any illegal immigrants staging the hunger strike “can go back to their country and get whatever food they want,” adding that “this isn’t Holiday Inn.”
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“It shows this radical left, Democrats’ priorities when they decide to go out and protest a detention center where we’re housing rapists, child predators, murderers, drug dealers,” Mullin said.
“And they choose Memorial Day? Of all the day[s] … They say that it’s because they’re on a hunger strike, when it’s only a handful of individuals who refused to
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