4 detainees have escaped from an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, DHS says

Four detainees broke through a wall and escaped from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to a U.S. senator and the Department of Homeland Security.

Sen. Andy Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, spoke Friday outside the Delaney Hall detention center. He said he was told detainees managed to break through an interior wall that led to an exterior one and from there were able to escape to a parking lot.

More “law enforcement partners” have been brought in to find the missing detainees, according to an emailed statement attributed to a senior DHS official whom the department did not identify. The statement also didn’t specify which law enforcement agencies are involved.

The development comes amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and a day ahead of major protests against his policies planned across the country.

DHS identified the escapees as two Colombian men who were arrested on burglary and other charges, and two Hondurans, Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez, who were arrested on aggravated assault and other charges. A court records search did not turn up attorney information for them.

Newark’s mayor cited reports of a possible uprising and escape after disorder broke out at the facility Thursday night and protesters outside the center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates. Much is still unclear about what unfolded there.

GEO Group, the company that owns and operates the detention facility for the federal government, said in a statement that there's “no widespread unrest” at the facility.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a 1,000-bed facility there this year under a 15-year, $1 billion contract as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Photos and video from outside the facility Thursday showed protesters pushing against the gates as word spread that detainees inside were upset about delayed meals.

Amy Torres, executive director of New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, said some officers pepper sprayed, tackled and dragged protesters away from the facility. She said some protesters had minor injuries.

Mustafa Cetin, an attorney for a client who's been detained in Delaney Hall for about two weeks, told The Associated Press that things turned violent late Thursday afternoon after detainees' meals arrived hours late.

“Apparently the guards lost control of them,” Cetin said. “And they started to, you know, create a disturbance. They came back up to the third floor, where my client is. Basically, they blocked off cameras, security cameras, and some of them made their way into a housing unit with a very thin, shallow wall, and they knocked it out.”

A 32-year-old American nurse from New Jersey named Kimberly said her husband, who is being held at the facility, told her the unrest began around 7 p.m. Thursday on the detention center's upper floor as inmates were upset about waiting hours to be fed. Kimberly declined to be identified by her surname out of concern for her husband’s safety.

“Nobody was talking to them or answering their questions, so they got upset and started rioting or fighting with each other,” Kimberly said her husband recounted.

The Brazilian man had been detained in front of their New Jersey home in late May. He had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and requested asylum in the early 2000s and was issued a deportation order in 2005.

Kimberly, a U.S. citizen, said they have been seeking a legal way for him to remain in the country since they married three years ago. They have a 1-year-old child.

She said she feels powerless.

“There’s nothing really I can do. Government doesn’t seem to be on our side. Police enforcement isn’t on our side," she said. “They’re not giving us answers. They’re not even letting us know that something happened inside that facility.”

Kim, the senator, said he heard about problems related to food and an odor in the water. Kim added that it seems as if there will be “major movements” of detainees out of the facility soon. He said he was seeking “full confirmation” about that.

DHS, which oversees ICE, didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat who's been critical of Trump's immigration crackdown, early Friday called for an end to the “chaos."

In a phone interview, Baraka pointed to the city's lawsuit against GEO Group and said it didn't have the proper city permits to operate. The company has said it had certification from the city from an earlier contract.

“It's one chaotic moment after the next,” Baraka said.

In a statement Friday, American Friends Service Committee said people inside the facility reported getting small portions of food, with breakfast at 6 a.m., dinner at 10 p.m. and no lunch.

In a statement, GEO Group said it was dedicated to “providing high-quality services to those in our care.”

Miguel Orea, program manager for First Friends of New Jersey and New York, a non-governmental organization that provides assistance to detained immigrants, was at Delaney Hall on Friday and saw families trying to visit detainees being turned away.

“Delaney Hall is in a strict lockdown,” Orea said. “They’ve suspended all visitation until at least next week.”

He said families who have been in contact with detainees told him the cafeteria is being used to hold people who will be transferred elsewhere, affecting the meal service. Orea said the complaints began after the facility opened in May.

“The families have told us that the conditions were extremely poor, that the food service was poor,” Orea said. He noted that in some cases detainees would receive breakfast at 8 a.m. and dinner not until 10 p.m., with no other meal in between. In some cases, he said, they received only two slices of bread.

Newark was one of four New Jersey cities sued by the Trump administration this year over so-called sanctuary policies.

There is no official definition for sanctuary policies or sanctuary cities. The terms generally describe limited local cooperation with ICE, which enforces U.S. immigration laws nationwide but sometimes seeks local help.

The policies are aimed at prohibiting cooperation on civil enforcement matters, not at blocking cooperation on criminal cases. They carve out exceptions for when ICE supplies police with a judicial criminal warrant.

Asked whether Newark was helping with the four escapees, Baraka said it was a federal investigation.

ICE housed more than 53,000 people nationwide at the end of May, according to its latest public figures, which is well above its budgeted capacity of about 41,000 and approaching all-time highs.

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, said late last month ICE should make at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from Jan. 20 through May 19, when the agency made an average of 656 arrests a day.

Delaney Hall has been the site of clashes this year between Democratic officials who say the facility needs more oversight and the administration and those who run the facility.

Baraka was arrested May 9, handcuffed and charged with trespassing. The charge was later dropped and Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver was later charged with assaulting federal officers stemming from a skirmish that happened outside the facility. She has denied the charges.

Associated Press writers Gisela Salomon and Hallie Golden contributed to this report.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent stands outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

A Protester shouts at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer through the gate of the Delaney Hall Immigration Facility during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

A protester confronts immigration enforcement agents outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Protesters gather outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Immigration enforcement agents guard outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Protesters link hands at the gates of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility to prevent vehicles from exiting during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Protesters attempt to block a vehicle from leaving the Delaney Hall Detention Facility during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

NEW YORK (AP) — Just over three months ago, President Donald Trump unveiled his most sweeping volley of tariffs yet — holding up large charts from the White House Rose Garden to outline new import taxes that the U.S. would soon slap on goods from nearly every country in the world.

But in line with much of Trump's on-again, off-again trade policy playbook, the bulk of those “Liberation Day” levies were postponed just hours after they took effect in April. The 90-day suspension arrived in an apparent effort to quell global market panic and facilitate country-by-country negotiations.

At that time, the administration set a lofty goal of reaching 90 trade deals in 90 days. Since then, however, the U.S. has only announced pacts with the United Kingdom and Vietnam — as well as a “framework″ agreement with China in a separate trade dispute. And the overall outlook for implementation has been murky. News of these deals often trickled through social media posts from the president and, even when countries on both sides of a negotiation table made more official announcements, many key details — including timing — were sparse.

The 90-day window was technically set to expire on July 9, but that deadline is now also getting an extension. On Monday, the U.S. began sending out letters to certain countries warning that higher tariffs could kick in Aug. 1 — not this week -- including to Japan and South Korea, which Trump said will both face 25% levies next month.

Even with negotiations ongoing, most countries have still faced a minimum 10% levy on goods entering the U.S. over the past three months, on top of punishing new taxes targeting foreign steel and aluminum as well as auto imports. The current pause pushed back additional steeper rates, which Trump calls “reciprocal” tariffs, for dozens of nations.

Here's what we know about the trade deals announced throughout the pause.

On July 2, Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam that he said would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free. Vietnamese exports to the U.S., by contrast, would face a 20% levy.

That's less than half the 46% “reciprocal” rate Trump proposed for Vietnamese goods back in April. But in addition to the new 20% tariff rate, Trump said the U.S. would impose a 40% tax on “transshipping’’ — targeting goods from another country that stop in Vietnam on their way to the United States. Washington complains that Chinese goods have been dodging higher U.S. tariffs by transiting through Vietnam.

It wasn't immediately clear when these new rates would go into effect or whether they would come on top of any other previously-imposed levies. Like most other countries, Vietnam has faced Trump's 10% baseline tariff for the last three months.

On May 8, Trump agreed to cut tariffs on British autos, steel and aluminum, among other trade pledges — while the U.K. promised to reduce levies on U.S. products like olive oil, wine and sports equipment. The deal was announced in grandiose terms by both countries, but some key details remained unknown for weeks.

When the deal was announced, for example, the British government notably said that the U.S. agreed to exempt the U.K. from its then-universal 25% duties on foreign steel and aluminum — which would have effectively allowed both metals from the country to come into the U.S. duty-free.

But the timing for when those cuts would actually take effect stayed up in the air for almost a month. It wasn’t until early June, when Trump hiked his steel and aluminum tariffs to a punishing 50% worldwide, that the U.S. acknowledged it was time to implement the agreement. And even then, U.S. tariffs on British steel and aluminum did not go to zero. The U.K. was the only country spared from Trump’s new 50% levies, but still faces 25% import taxes on the metals — and Trump said that rate could also go up on or after Wednesday.

The U.K. did not receive a higher “reciprocal” rate on April 2, but continues to face the 10% baseline tax.

At its peak, Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese goods totaled 145% — and China’s countertariffs on American products reached 125%. But on May 12, the countries agreed to their own 90-day truce to roll back those levies to 30% and 10%, respectively. And last month, details began trickling in about a tentative trade agreement.

On June 11, following talks in London, Trump announced a “framework” for a deal. And late last month, the U.S. and China both acknowledged that some sort of agreement had been reached. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that China had agreed to make it easier for American firms to acquire Chinese magnets and rare earth minerals critical for manufacturing and microchip production. Meanwhile, without explicitly mentioning U.S. access to rare earths, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said that it would “review and approve eligible export applications for controlled items” and that the U.S. would “lift a series of restrictive measures it had imposed on China."

More specifics about those measures — and when they would actually go into effect — were not immediately clear. But on Friday, the Ministry of Commerce acknowledged that the U.S. was resuming exports of airplane parts, ethane and other items to China. And when Trump first announced the framework on June 11, the U.S. had said it agreed to stop seeking to revoke the visas of Chinese students on U.S. college campuses.

Associated Press Staff Writers Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman and Fu Ting in Washington, D.C., Aniruddha Ghosal in Hanoi, and Huizhong Wu in Bangkok contributed to this report.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)