authorities are still searching for two of the four detainees who escaped from Newark's Delaney Hall last week the other two are now in FBI custody according to federal officials today the operators of the private immigrant detention facility essentially put the place on lockdown barring visits from lawyers and family members as they try to regain order following the uprising that led to the detainees escape and as senior correspondent Brenda Flanigan reports as hundreds of other immigrants are being transferred to unknown locations protesters failed to block the vans that started moving detainees out of Delaney Hall on Friday all weekend white vans from the private contractor Geo Group which operates the facility removed hundreds of undocumented immigrants from Delaney the sudden evacuation followed last week's riot in the detention cent's unit 5 where detainees tore a hole in the wall that allowed four men to escape people were able to escape because the wall was so uh built so poorly um they do not seem to me like they are able to run this facility safely uh for the people they are holding inside two of the detainees who escaped remain at large the FBI apprehended the others this weekend advocates outside Delaney Hall have long protested conditions inside this facility including security as vendors for steel doors and other construction workers rolled into Delaney today so did the large white transport vans they were taking people out going to who knows where after they had abused them for an entire month you know not driving them of food and water and medical care it's also very scary and chaotic for the people inside because they not sure where they're being shipped off to they're not sure they're not getting any any idea any confirmation um from GIO from ICE as to what really is happening gio has barred visits by both attorneys and families relocated detainees call after reaching destinations that have so far included New Mexico Texas Pennsylvania and Colorado even if you going to deport somebody there there's a a humane way of going about it william Weather's brother is still at Delaney he's due to be deported back to Jamaica but the family fears he'll get swept up in this mass movement he might end up in Louisiana somewhere or Texas somewhere and just be bounced around for months and months you know for no apparent reason geog Group got a $1 billion federal contract to operate this facility for the next 15 years capacity 1,000 beds but oversight's been problematic we pay these private prison companies like GEO and like Core Civic loads and loads billions of dollars to incarcerate and detain our people and they have no responsibility to give us any information gio would not answer questions about current activity here last week the company said "Contrary to current reporting there has been no widespread unrest at the facility we remain dedicated to providing highquality services to those in our care."

A spokesman for Newark Mayor Raz Baraka says "The city's arranged for an inspection by its engineering department homeland Security had no comment i think under this administration there is a push to uh detain and deport as many immigrants as possible especially in blue states like New Jersey and especially in blue cities like Newark republicans charged Democrats are using Delaney to grandstand the push to verify conditions inside the facility continues baraka claims it wasn't up to code before it even opened congresswoman Lam Monica Macyver faces assault charges after a shoving match with ICE officers delayed a May 9th tour she pleaded not guilty senator Andy Kim toured Delaney on Friday his take it's an insecure facility they do not have confidence in this facility which is why they're doing this security review and it looks like moving all most if not all of the detainees out of there while they do a review in that process no one's quite sure where the detainees will end up or what happens next in Newark i'm Brenda Flanigan NJ Spotlight News