menu Home chevron_right
NEWS & CULTURE

They’re Pepper Spraying Senators Now

Leeja Miller | May 29, 2026



Go to https://www.Quince.com/leeja for free shipping on your next order and 365-day returns. | Tensions outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey boiled over this weekend, with Senator Andy Kim attempting to intervene and de-escalate and instead getting hit with pepper spray by DHS agents. The conditions inside Delaney Hall are so bad that 300 detainees are currently participating in a hunger strike. This is all part of the larger fascist plan to dehumanize immigrants so we all look the other way.

🔗 Sources: https://www.leejamiller.com/episodes/2026/5/26/theyre-pepper-spraying-senators-now

🎙️Listen to the podcast version of every episode here: https://www.leejamiller.com/why-america

👑 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leejamiller

👕 Get your Reagan Ruined Everything t-shirt right here: https://leejamillermerch.com/

📃Sign up for Why, America? The Newsletter for news insights every Friday: https://leejamiller.substack.com

𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗠𝗘
📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leejamiller/
🤳🏻 TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdPrpN7c/
🖥 Website: https://www.leejamiller.com
📧 E-mail: contact@tablerock.com
💌 Snail Mail:
400 S 4th Street
Suite 401-53
Minneapolis, MN 55415

___________________

𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗦
THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE – Everything contained on this channel is meant solely for entertainment and informational purposes. Nothing herein should be considered legal advice nor does anything on this channel create an attorney-client relationship of any sort. Please seek guidance from a licensed attorney before making any legal decision.

COPYRIGHT – Any use of copyrighted content on this channel constitutes fair use pursuant to 17 U.S. Code § 107 as it is utilized for the purpose of criticism, comment, or news reporting allowed under that statute. See, e.g., Monster Communications, Inc. v. Turner Broadcasting Sys. Inc., 935 F.Supp. 490 (S.D. N.Y., 1996); SOFA Entertainment, Inc. v. Dodger Productions, Inc., No. 2:08-cv-02616 (9th Cir. Mar. 11, 2013); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 14-09041 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 13, 2015).

AFFILIATE LINKS – This description may include affiliate links that allow me to make a small profit (at no extra cost to you!) on purchases made through them. I only include links to products I genuinely recommend.

PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT A JOURNALIST. Nor am I a scholar providing academic-level peer-reviewed journal articles in video form. (Because that would be boring for both me and for you, and that’s not the point of these videos.) These episodes are news commentary on the work of actual journalists (with the addition of personal takes and my own legal knowledge). I have made every attempt to cite my sources in this description. However, given that I am a one-woman show and I turn these videos around in under 24 hours (research, write, film, edit, and post) in an effort to get important information & analysis out to you asap, inadvertent mistakes happen. If you believe I have missed a citation, please reach out at hello@leejamiller.com and I will happily add it to the description.

Written by Leeja Miller

Comments

This post currently has 32 comments.

  1. @jxsanche

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Senator Kim was later accused for having convinced protesters to stand down temporarily so that ICE would take the opportunity to come out with a bunch of vehicles that transported detainees to other facilities. Such a messed up alternate timeline. I'm tired boss

  2. @jonathanscott8994

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    According to protesters on the ground he was scabbing and he actually asked them to disperse to allow the human trafficking to continue, ICE is just so trigger happy that they pepper sprayed him anyways.

  3. @elixorvideos

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    I know this isn't remotely the point, but I'm so glad I'm not American and have never visited the States. It just seems like a lawless land where the rich can do whatever they want and the population just has to take it.

  4. @Todd5747

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    I think instead of getting between the protestors and ice agents, the senator should have told the crowd not to block the vehicle entrance/exit. I’ve heard blocking driveways, govt building access, and streets is illegal in most of the country, although granted, I have zero plans to actually need to look the rules up, if I’m ever close enough to an ice facility it’ll be because they finally came for the poor fat white guys who voted republican.

  5. @albinomonferno8647

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Look. I'm not a lawyer, I'm just a history nerd.
    But the way the conditions are described sound a hell of a lot like:
    "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

  6. @systemofafrown

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    The world is better with you in it :(( these comments are so dumb. I’m so sorry you’re in this transphobic smear campaign I legit believe you when you say this is about you being trans. Greenlegocats has said the n word before and their content style is like leafyishere. I used to watch them when I was a kid until he made rape jokes and Donald Trump jokes from what I remember. Because I experienced sexual abuse so young as a little girl i could tell that gaming spaces didn’t include me. You’re not the only one ❤️

  7. @iddybiddy1386

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Who in their right mind thinks this is #1 godly #2 human? #3 american? Some need to check their mental health. Hate for humanity is evil. We are all human, non of this is godly, human or American. Its a sickness of the mind and heart. Its sad and that kind of anger and cruelty and to act on it is to be without God or Jesus's teachings.

  8. @billiuminoakland

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    Why has Booker visited the detention center only once since it opened over a year ago? It seems like he should be helping spearhead efforts to redress human rights violations in this de facto concentration camp.

  9. @justrosy5

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    To be fair, dying after only one day in custody, vs. all those people somehow surviving that hell hole, does kinda point to natural causes, unless it was, say, a black widow spider bite (still natural, though obviously avoidable by those running these Holocaust camps, but not internally caused). They need to release his detailed cause of death.

  10. @Alec94726

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    I'm now thirty, and when I was twenty, I was struck by a Honda Odyssey while riding my bicycle. I went from ~175lb down to 125 when discharged. Literal skin and bones, the fat content was probably just the lining around my organs. The treatment of these detainees, regardless of what they're detained for, is unamerican and inhumane.

  11. @goawayplzthnx

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    The better question is: why weren't senators in the streets with us all this time?

    Boo-hoo, Kim. You and your buddies should already have been getting your butts kicked WITH us. You're SO late to the party.

  12. @LesleyGumGrasses

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    The question is did Hitler actually have any real issues with Jews or gypsies or black people or anyone, or did he -like Trump just view that hate-mongering bullsh*t as a means of gaining power/favor among the easily led racists to gain himself a fighting force within the country?

  13. @Ashley_Obscuro

    May 29, 2026 at 8:04 pm

    This is just a concentration camp. Those people should be at home with their families and are being held in a torture prison.

    When this is all over I hope we don't stop sentencing people to life long prison till every guard, actuary, janitor, politician, anyone who worked at these facilities is put behind bars for this.

Leave a Reply





This area can contain widgets, menus, shortcodes and custom content. You can manage it from the Customizer, in the Second layer section.

 

 

 

  • play_circle_filled

    92.9 : The Torch

  • play_circle_filled

    AGGRO
    'Til Deaf Do Us Part...

  • play_circle_filled

    SLACK!
    The Music That Made Gen-X

  • play_circle_filled

    KUDZU
    The Northwoods' Alt-Country & Americana

  • play_circle_filled

    BOOZHOO
    Indigenous Radio

  • play_circle_filled

    THE FLOW
    The Northwoods' Hip Hop and R&B

play_arrow skip_previous skip_next volume_down
playlist_play