Newsmax host on alleged hunger strikes in a ICE detention facilities: “If they want to not eat, that's on them. I don't really care. Saves us some taxpayer money, I guess.”
Carl Higbie: “Half of the people in the ICE clink are probably getting better meals and probably getting better health care than they did before they were picked up”
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From the May 26, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie: Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): I mean, really? We're doing this again? I thought these people had moved on from protesting outside of ICE facilities to, like, the nearest coloring book factory. But after realizing that it didn't change Trump's immigration enforcement strategy at all, and if you've learned anything from Renée Good, they were worried about getting shot, but apparently not. Today and yesterday, actually, started last night in New Jersey, a bunch of jobless non-assets to society gathered outside the same ICE facility that Congresswoman Lamonica McIver, if you remember her, was arrested at for assaulting an ICE officer. She's still pending with that. Like, I don't understand why this is allowed to continue on federal property, but here we are. The new lib governor over there got denied entry, but was just happy to stand out with some of the other Democrats while they gave a super important press conference about how these are just people, not criminals.
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Mothers, fathers, 18-year-olds, because none of them ever commit crimes. Like, they're breaking the law to be here. Hence why they're locked up in the ICE facility; that is their criminal record, by the way. Maybe besides that, they don't have a criminal record even though many of them probably do and Democrats just lie about that because they lie about everything. These Democrats, they were trying to gain access to this facility to inspect it based on these baseless claims — they had no reason to believe this — but that the conditions were inhumane and that all these people were inside were on hunger strikes.
Look, as far as the hunger strikes, if they want to not eat, that's on them. I don't really care. Saves us some taxpayer money, I guess. But the inhumane conditions is a complete farce. Half of the people in the ICE clink are probably getting better meals and probably getting better health care than they did before they were picked up. And you would think congressmen and governors would know all this since they make or sign into law most of these things.
See, if they were other types of criminals, they would just be in a regular jail. Being in an ICE detention facility means that they were in fact breaking immigrations and customs laws, the first two letters of ICE. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin pretty much went off on this. He said, quote, this is nothing more than a political stunt by New Jersey sanctuary politicians for fundraising clicks. There is no hunger strike at Delaney Hall — that's the ICE facility — there are no subprime conditions. I tend to believe him a little bit more. But going to these things has become some sort of, like — I don't know, they get, like, a hall monitor merit badge on their on their banner for Democrats now. They go to these things with a bunch of these, you know, non-showered degenerates at these protests.