Federal agents fired pepper balls at protesters outside Delaney Hall in Newark on Monday following days of unrest outside the privately run immigration detention center. U.S. Sen. Andy Kim said he had trouble breathing after being caught in the cloud of pepper spray deployed as a growing crowd of protesters responding to an inmate hunger strike demonstrated outside.

Democratic Senator Andy Kim was met with force when trying to defuse tensions at an immigration detention center on Monday.

He highlighted a bill currently before Congress that would provide “tens of billions of dollars” to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement while the war in Iran continues and affordability issues pe...