When contacted for comment, ICE referred ABC News to DHS, which said it is "aware" of the four detainees escaping. DHS said the detainees are four men who are in the U.S. illegally and have been previously arrested by local police on charges ranging from aggravated assault to burglary.

After a disturbance that included four men escaping from a crowded New Jersey ICE detention facility, the agency has moved some of the women housed there to a tent-like facility in El Paso.