Fox News host shows inside of ICE facility Dem reps tried to storm

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy toured a detention facility run by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a segment that aired Monday on “Fox and Friends.”

Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez Jr. of New Jersey were involved in a fracas outside the ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, Friday, during which Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark was arrested. Campos-Duffy said the agency had “nothing to be ashamed of.”

“I came over to the ICE detention facility. I received the tour Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,a representative out of New York, is going to receive a few hours from now,” Campos-Duffy told “Fox and Friends” co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade. “This is what I saw: ICE has nothing to hide. They have nothing to be ashamed of. This facility is so clean. It has, you know, all kind of recreation facilities, outdoor soccer field, weight equipment, domino tables. It has telephones everywhere with signs next to them of how they can, phone numbers to reach their consulate and also legal facilities, computer web cams.”

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“There are doors on the bedrooms and they aren’t even locked,” Campos-Duffy continued. “The facility actually looks like a high school, looks better than a lot of high schools and prisons in America could take a lesson, in fact, director of ICE, who took me around told me, Todd Lyons told me, they can’t contract with state and local facilities, they have to use private facilities, because their standards are so high and it is too expensive to retro retrofit to put the ICE detainees in.”

Upon taking office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.

“In Spanish and English, there are signs up that say, ‘do you want to go home?’ And it gives you a phone number that you can call to self-deport or you can also just tell somebody in the facility, hey, I’m ready to be done with this, I just want to go home to my country,” Campos-Duffy said. “If you do that, the American government, though ICE, will arrange within 48 hours, a free flight and $1,000 so you can get out. So the idea they are here with no agency, that they are being detained with no choices, that’s not true. They have a choice to self-deport and they make it really easy.”

Trump announced the self-deportation program on May 5, during a White House event announcing the 2027 NFL Draft would take place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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