Ali Velshi escorted away by police as he reports on protest outside NJ ICE facility

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While reporting on a large police presence breaking up a protest outside Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey, Ali Velshi is escorted away by police. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW:

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BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS NOW YOU'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE PROTESTERS COMING BACK, WE'VE SEEN ONE PERSON UNDER ARREST SO FAR.

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WE CAN'T SEE THE REST OF THEM, HOWEVER, LOOK OVER THERE, ALEX, TO THE RIGHT, THERE IS A VERY LARGE GROUPING OF POLICE NOW

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MOVING IN WITH BATONS AND WITH SHIELDS, THEY ARE MOVING TO PROVIDE NOW A REAR SUPPORT GUARD FOR THE POLICE THAT ARE THERE.

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YOU CAN SEE STATE POLICE, YOU CAN SEE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY POLICE. I DON'T KNOW WHO THOSE NEW POLICE ARE. THEY'RE IN TACTICAL GEAR.

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SO IT MAY BE A SWAT TEAM OF SOME SORT. BUT THEY ARE MOVING IN.

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I WILL TELL YOU, CATHERINE, THE NUMBER OF PROTESTERS LEFT BEFORE THIS HAPPENED WAS RELATIVELY SMALL.

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I THINK THE LAST TIME YOU AND I WERE TALKING WAS PROBABLY ABOUT A 100, 125.

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By the time we left, it was well, well under that.

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There are far more police here than there were protesters.

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What you're looking at to the left of the scene, you see all those police. It's hard to see because it's dark.

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But to the left of it is the entrance to Delaney Hall.

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Earlier, when we saw one of the detainees being released, it was from that part.

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Just beyond that is the welcome center, the support center for the families of detainees where they provide food and support for them.

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That's where everything has stopped, and we're not quite sure why it's stopped at this point.

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We are being asked by police to move back, so I'm going to be doing that. Can we stay here?

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you able to tell us what is happening there because we're trying okay is this okay we stay here all right

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unfortunately won't be able to cover it if we go that far back I We don't want to get anybody's way, but we won't be able to cover it if we go that far back. All right. So are we good now?

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Yes. Back them up, yeah. All right. Depressed.

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All right. So you hear what's going on here.

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They are asking us all to back THE RULES AROUND HERE ARE THAT YOU CAN'T INTERFERE WITH THE COVERAGE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. SO LAW ENFORCEMENT IS ASKING US TO BACK UP.

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WE ARE ASKING THEM, DO YOU KNOW WHY WE'RE BEING REMOVED?

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CAN YOU TELL US WHAT'S going on behind you okay how far do we need to go back all right so that impedes our ability to

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to talk about what's going on okay do you know if anybody uh are you making arrests all right well as you can see katherine we're not getting

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a response as to what is happening here we are being pushed back however uh we can still see there is more police presence that is gathering

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on the scene we're still seeing more police we're not seeing POLICE AND PROTESTERS.

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I DID SEE ONE ARREST, I HAVEN'T SEEN MORE SINCE THEN, BUT THIS IS THE SITUATION.

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IT IS, THESE POLICE ARE BEING VERY PROFESSIONAL ABOUT IT, BUT THERE ARE SEVEN POLICE escorting me back to make sure that I'm doing this.

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I'm not sure how far back we're supposed to go.

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We're not doing anything to impede law enforcement, nor do we wish to.

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But we don't have any real guidance as to how far back.

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I think we're pretty far HOW FAR BACK GUYS ARE WE OKAY HERE? THE ROAD IS SEVERAL MILES. HOW FAR BACK ARE WE GOING?

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OKAY. I WOULD WALK WITH US FOR ALL TIME. ALL RIGHT.

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I GUESS WE'LL HAVE A POLICE ESCORT ALL THE WAY I'M TRYING TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT.

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I HAVE A DIRECT LINE OF SIGHT TO WHAT'S GOING ON. THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY THANK YOU.

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DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY DISBURSAL OF THE POLICE.

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IN FACT, WE'RE SEEING MORE WE ARE SEEING ACROSS THE ROAD THERE, ALICE. GO AHEAD, KATHRYN.

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ARE THERE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PRESS THERE? IS IT JUST YOU?

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THERE ARE, AND WE ARE THE only ones exactly where we are, but there is other media in the area.

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In fact, I sort of observed earlier.

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In fact, it might be worth, Alex, just turning around for a second and getting a sense of how many police cars, how many police vehicles there are here.

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I mean, Catherine, this is the sort of presence that we want to be one would have been used to in New York City after 9-11 when they used to do

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those cobra exercises where they would converge to simulate a terrorist response.

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I mean, I MEAN, THIS IS, THERE ARE MORE POLICE CARS HERE THAN THERE PROBABLY WERE PROTESTERS AT THIS POINT.

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BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THE POLICE ARE TAKING, REMOVING THE PRESS FROM THE SCENE VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.

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IF ALEX WERE TO TURN AROUND AGAIN, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO INJURE YOURSELF, ALEX, this is all of these police are walking us back just to be clear there is

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no one else here there's no one behind us it's my producers our security and our camera that's correct THAT'S IT, ALL OF THESE POLICE ARE WALKING US BACK.

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JUST TO BE CLEAR, AS YOU'VE SEEN, WE'RE NOT RESISTING WALKING BACK.

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I AM TRYING TO ASK WHY WE'RE BEING REMOVED AND HOW FAR WE HAVE TO THIS IS A ROAD THAT IS SEVERAL MILES LONG. SO I HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR BACK WE'RE GOING TO GO.

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WE ARE EFFECTIVELY OUT OF THE LINE OF SIGHT OF WHAT'S GOING ON, WHICH IS PART OF THE WHOLE PROBLEM WITH THE STORY, KATHERINE,

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THAT WE CAN'T BEAR WITNESS TO IT, ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES CAN'T BEAR BEAR WITNESS TO IT.

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WE HEAR THERE ARE HUNGER STRIKES, WE HEAR THAT THERE'S MISTREATMENT INSIDE. MIGHT BE TRUE, MIGHT NOT BE TRUE.

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ICE AND DHS SAY IT'S NOT WE DON'T KNOW, AND WHEN WE TRY TO REPORT ON THE STORY, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.

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AGAIN, EVERYBODY IS BEING VERY PROFESSIONAL HERE, BUT I HAVEN'T HAD THIS MUCH ATTENTION IN A LONG TIME.

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THIS IS MORE VIEWERS THAN I I'M SURE, A LOT OF POLICE WHO ARE VERY CLEAR ON WALKING US BACK.

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ALLY, CAN I JUST TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING AT THE VERY BEGINNING?

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YOU SAID THAT POLICE REMOVED THE BARRICADES AND POLICE POLICE TOOK THE BARRICADES DOWN? YES. YES. THE POLICE... YES.

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SO WHAT HAD HAPPENED, THE WHOLE IDEA WAS THAT PEOPLE WERE GETTING, IN THE OPINION OF THE GOVERNOR, TOO CLOSE TO THE facility so they they they

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acted they brought in the state police to act as a buffer between protesters and uh and and ice then that didn't work out last night they had a lot of tension

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so they brought in newark police bellevue police local police they also have state police here but they were not in the front lines but they created barricades there was

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a barricade and then generally six to ten feet on the other side of that barricade is where the police would be so there was no less than 10 or 12 feet between

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protesters and police almost at any time and that more than 10 or 12 people that were protesting no no no no that's an absolute lie

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you just lied on camera what did i just say you just said there was 10 or 12 I actually said there was never more than 10 or 12

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I told you there was no counter-protesters left, there's at least one counter-protester left.

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I told you there were no counter-protesters left, there's at least one counter-protester left, there's no counter-protester left, there's another flashbang, so there's, hi Pablo, okay, that's another flashbang

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now, so we're continuing to hear a third flashbang in a row.

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It's hard not to watch you and think of how you are living the in the middle of a meta-conversation around the story while covering the story.

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The whole point has been.

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I literally was saying they were sick 10 or 12 feet and he said there were 10 or 12 feet.

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Yes, we all heard you very clearly, that gentleman decided to, I think, embody an internet commenter in real life, which is a surreal experience for you, I'm sure, as you're covering a real serious event.

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But the idea here just to reset us, this is a warehouse that has been used to house people who WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW GETTING THE

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WORD OUT ALLEDGING THAT THEY ARE BEING MISTREATED. WORMS IN THE FOOD.

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I WANT TO MAKE THIS POINT THAT YOU'RE MAKING, IF YOU YOU LOOK OVER HERE, YOU SEE CONTAINERS, RIGHT? THIS IS AROUND NEWARK AIRPORT. THIS IS CONTAINERS, SHIPPING, AND WAREHOUSES.

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THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. THERE'S NO HOUSES HERE. THERE'S NO RESIDENTIAL STUFF. THERE ARE NO RESTAURANTS around us. There are some gas stations. These are warehouses.

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Delaney is a warehouse that is housing people and there are allegations as there have been in other federal detention centers that the conditions are not suitable for people,

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not just all people, but there are some young people. There are some older people in here. There are some ill people. There are pregnant people.

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And so a lot of these protesters are, can we get them health care? Can we get them inspected? And can we see what this facility looks like?

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When you're standing outside of it, Pablo, it looks like a warehouse, like any other warehouse.

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And the allegation is that it's actually a warehouse and that's what it looks like inside.

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Divided into cells without proper sanitation, without enough toilets, without enough sanitation for everyone. And this whole thing.

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This whole thing revolves around trying to get proper information about what's going on in there. And that's what we can't get.

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Proper information is the thing that's missing and that we're trying to do.

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But as you can now see, these police officers continue to walk us back. I guess we're all getting our steps in tonight.

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We are watching, I guess, a First Amendment law

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