ICE Goons Pepper-Spray Senator Amid Protest ‘Chaos’

XSenator Andy Kim was left struggling to breathe after being pepper-sprayed by ICE agents during chaotic Memorial Day clashes outside an immigrant detention center.The New Jersey Democrat, 43, was engulfed in chemical irritants as he stood with demonstrators outside Delaney Hall in Newark in his home state on Monday. The privately run, 1,000-bed jail holds roughly 300 detainees, many of whom have launched a hunger strike over the institution’s supposedly rotten food, broiling heat, and the withholding of medical care. Kim had tried to broker a truce—agents pulling back their tactical teams in exchange for advocates inspecting cars leaving the facility—before the agents surged forward and fired pepper balls into the crowd, according to NJ.com. Read more at The Daily Beast.