Four detainees escaped when tensions boiled over at the ICE facility​ known as Delaney Hall in Newark, the Department of Homeland Security said.

About 50 immigrants being held at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.

Four detainees have escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey, which has been the center of protests since its opening in May and where both a sitting congresswoman and Newark’s mayor have been arrested.