Protesters Clash with ICE at NJ Detention Center
Federal agents removed demonstrators blocking the entrance, and two people were arrested as protests over detainee conditions continued.
- Protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashed Tuesday outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, as federal agents deployed pepper spray and removed demonstrators blocking the entrance.
- Around 300 detainees began a hunger and work strike Friday protesting inhumane conditions, prompting immigration advocates to stage solidarity protests outside the facility, with tensions escalating Sunday when ICE removed organizer Martín Soto.
- Democratic lawmakers permitted inside reported detainees face inhumane conditions; Ana Paola Pazmino with Resistencia en Accion NJ said, "You've heard the rotten food. You've heard that they don't have clean bathrooms." Gabriela Soto reported a guard questioned her Saturday about spreading lies, asking why she claimed worms in food and denied medical care; she responded, "Because it's true."
- Three people were arrested in the clashes, with two charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal officers; Governor Mikie Sherrill said pepper-spraying a senator is not keeping people safe, while Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. called the escalation a distraction from facility conditions.
- Governor Sherrill called for Delaney Hall to close citing the violence, while Newark Mayor Ras Baraka requested a gubernatorial investigation; DHS denied hunger strike claims, stating "There is no hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions.
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Protesters clash with ICE at NJ detention center
Newark, N.J. (PIX11) – Protests continue outside Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention center in Newark. Overnight, tensions came to a head between ICE agents and the crowd. Agents were seen pepper-spraying and beating some protestors with batons. Witnesses say it got extremely violent because people refused to move. At one point, “someone was pushed under [...]
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