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Federal agents fired pepper balls at protesters outside Delaney Hall in Newark on Monday following days of unrest outside the privately run immigration detention center.

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim said he had trouble breathing from the cloud of pepper spray deployed as a growing crowd of protesters responding to an inmate hunger strike demonstrated outside.

“What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,” Kim, D-N.J., told NJ.com on Monday.

“It’s sad, it’s a sad day.”

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, about 125 protesters gathered outside the facility over the weekend, at one point forming a human chain and makeshift barricades.

A DHS spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions regarding what weapons were deployed Monday and by whom.

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