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News Wrap: More people arrested for breaking curfew at New Jersey ICE detention facility

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In our new wrap Monday, police in New Jersey arrested more protestors for breaking a curfew around an ICE detention facility, election denier Tina Peters was released from prison, Colombia's presidential election is set for a runoff, protesters in Kenya demonstrated against plans by the U.S. government to set up an Ebola quarantine facility and Serena Williams is returning to the tennis court. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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In the day's other headlines, New Jersey's Attorney General says a group of individuals was arrested last night for breaking a curfew near an ICE detention facility that has seen days of unrest.

0:11.0

Demonstrators clashed with police this past weekend outside the privately run Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, seen here pushing against barricades.

0:19.9

Federal and state officers used riot shields and tear gas to disperse the crowds.

0:23.6

The protests were sparked by reports of poor conditions inside the 1,000 bed facility,

0:29.6

including concerns about food quality.

0:31.6

The wife of one detainee spoke with the news hour earlier today.

0:35.6

Her face is blurred at her request.

0:39.3

It's not because they don't want to eat it because they don't like it.

0:42.3

It's because it's rotten.

0:44.3

It's because when they go downstairs to lunch, there was an incident about their beans with worms in it.

0:50.3

In the breakfast, their milk is chewy, so how do they think they're going to be able

0:56.0

to eat their cereal? But when they pour that milk in the cereal, the cereal is expired, too.

1:03.0

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democratic lawmakers have called for Delaney Hall's

1:08.0

closure over the reported conditions. In response, Department of

1:11.8

Homeland Security posted on social media, everyone being held inside Delaney Hall broke the law. This

1:17.7

is a detention center. We do not provide luxury accommodations. In Colorado, election denier Tina

1:24.4

Peters was released from prison today after serving less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence.

1:29.2

The former elections clerk was convicted in 2024 for her involvement in a plot to show that voting machines in the 2020 election were rigged against Donald Trump.

1:39.3

Joe Biden was the winner of that election.

1:41.9

Last month, Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis,

1:45.1

commuted her sentence amid pressure from President Trump.

1:48.3

Soon after her release, Peters appeared on right-wing podcaster Steve Bannon's program,

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