Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump has dismissed protesters outside a New Jersey immigration detention facility as “fake” and “paid for” as demonstrations intensified andDemocratic lawmakers demanded investigations into conditions inside the center.
Video footage from the scene showed protesters clashing with ICE agents outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25 as tensions escalated over immigration enforcement.
Speaking during a Cabinet meeting on May 27, Trump praised federal immigration officials amid allegations of medical neglect and “perpetrating cruelty” against people.
“These aren’t protesters,”Trump said.“These people are fake. They’re all paid for.”
President Donald Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin weighed in on anti-ICE protesters at Delaney Hall in NJ.Here's why Trump called the protesters "fake":https://t.co/IkJdGqtR2lpic.twitter.com/HXTpL2cRui
Trump also said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials “run the finest facilities anywhere in the world of their type.”
The comments came after days of protests outside Delaney Hall, where detainees and family members accused officials of poor medical care and mistreatment inside the privately run immigration detention center.
The controversy escalated this week after Reps. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) conducted an oversight visit at the Newark facility.
Nadler said in a May 27 post on X that what he observed inside the detention center was “deeply disturbing” and warranted further investigation.
Source: ZeroHedge News
