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

The search for four detainees who went missing from an immigration detention center in New Jersey a day ago continues Friday, with federal authorities confirming the group escaped the facility. The detainees were being held at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark,