A senior Fox News reporter swiftly shut down an anti-ICE protester’s foul-mouthed slurs while covering the chaos at a New Jersey detention center on Tuesday.
Alexis McAdams was outside Newark’s Delaney Hall, where detainees are purportedly staging a hunger strike to protest conditions inside the facility, when she weaved her way through the crowd while trying to explain the situation to viewers — and encountered a fiery protester who started harassing her.
“You are a protester who’s been out here and you have a dirty mouth,” McAdams, a national correspondent with the cable news network, said during a live shot.
Fox News’ national correspondent kept her cool while an agitator called her a “Nazi b—ch.” Joe Concha, /X
Alexis McAdams turned the tables on the irate protester. Joe Concha, /X“You’re a Nazi b—ch, you’re a Nazi b—ch,” the unidentified female protester repeated while McAdams spoke.
McAdams, though, used the woman’s rage to make her point.
“Okay, so, that’s just what we deal with,” McAdams chided.
“So just for people that want to know what it’s like to cover these protests, it’s constant with this, it’s what these people do.”
“People inside are dying, and you’re lying!” the protester snapped back.
Protesters swarmed Delaney Hall for a fifth straight day of demonstrations on Tuesday. AFP via Getty ImagesBut McAdams continued without missing a beat: “They want people who are in this country illegally to be released out onto the streets. DHS says that’s what they’re not going to be doing.”
“Nazi b—ch, that’s what you are! Nazi b—ch!” the protester shouted as she jabbed a finger at the camera.
Back at the Fox News studio, host Will Cain mocked the “eloquent argument made against the presence of Alexis McAdams.”
Protesters clashed with federal agents outside Delaney Hall. Getty ImagesAnti-ICE protests at the 1,000-bed Newark facility have only grown, fueled by the presence of Garden State’s lefty politicians, including Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who visited the demonstrations over the weekend.
Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Reps. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and Nellie Pou (D-NJ) all toured the facility during their visits — but Sherrill claimed she was iced out.
The migrants inside have purportedly been served tainted food, packed into rooms without air conditioning, and had their immigration cases ignored by federal judges, the New Jersey Monitor reported.
ICE insists conditions inside its centers actually maintain “higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”
