Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino criticized the Department of Homeland Security‘s response to the outbreak of protests at New Jersey‘s Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Thursday.

People have gathered outside Delaney Hall since last week, protesting the conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark as detainees raise alarm bells with a hunger strike about what they call the facility’s “terrible and inhumane” conditions.