Tom Homan made surprise visit to New Jersey detention center where rioters are demonstrating, ate same food as detainees

Tom Homan.

Immigration czar Tom Homan says he made a surprise visit to the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, N.J., where Antifa agitators have been rioting for nearly two weeks and said there's no hunger strike happening inside the facility and that he tested the food being served to the detainees there. 

Homan appeared on Fox News late Monday night to discuss what he witnessed and what he tasted inside the facility.

"I made a surprise visit this weekend and walked into the cafeteria and ate the same meal that the detainees around me were eating," Homan told Sean Hannity. "And I made sure my tray equaled their tray. I had spaghetti and meat sauce. I had beans. I had green beans. I had bread and rolls. I had drinks. I had dessert. The food was good."

For nearly two weeks, far-left extremists have rioted outside the facility causing all manner of chaos over the claim that detainees were staging a hunger strike in protest of poor conditions inside the detention center. High-profile politicians including the state's governor and two U.S. senators took part in the demonstrations over Memorial Day weekend. Eventually, as the violence has escalated, the Newark mayor implemented a curfew. Officials arrested almost two dozen rioters for breaking that curfew over the weekend. 

Homan said the purported reasons behind the riots have been untrue. "It's all a false premise. There was never a hunger strike," Homan said. "They may not be eating in the commissary. I found out they're ordering food from the commissary and eating in their cells. So there wasn't any abuse." 

Meanwhile, many of those arrested for attacking law enforcement officials are from out of state, a hallmark of Antifa "protests" that are organized and well-funded. One of rioters who was arrested, a 26-year-old man who is accused of kicking and biting police officers to the point of drawing blood, had a previous arrest in 2018 for allegedly disseminating child pornography, The New York Post reported. 

As the chaos outside Delaney Hall has continued, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said at a press conference on Tuesday that he's mounting a legal battle to have the detention center shut down completely. Below, watch Homan's remarks about his visit to the facility.