India, May 27 -- Tensions escalated outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, after protesters clashed with ICE agents during demonstrations over alleged conditions inside the immigration center.

According to NBC New York, the facility has become the center of days-long protests tied to claims of inhumane living conditions and reports of a hunger strike among detainees.

The confrontation intensified Sunday after some protesters allegedly threw water bottles at ICE agents, prompting officers to deploy pepper spray.

By early Monday morning, demonstrators were seen chanting, holding signs and kneeling in front of three vans attempting to leave Delaney Hall in an effort to stop possible detainee transfers.

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