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BREAKING🚨 In Newark last night, riot police in gas masks and armored vehicles swept the streets outside an ICE detention center, corralling protesters and even journalists as a brand‑new “emergency curfew” came down.

Inside the facility, immigrants on hunger strike say they’re being punished for demanding basic dignity.

For nearly two weeks, Delaney Hall — a privately run immigration detention center on Doremus Avenue — has been the site of growing protests after detainees reported “inhumane” conditions: rotten food, lack of medical care, and retaliation against those who speak up.

Advocates say dozens of people inside have refused meals, and families have struggled just to get visitation restored. Under pressure, the Department of Homeland Security quietly agreed to reopen family visits on Sunday, but refused to address the deeper complaints.

Instead, the state responded with force. On Friday, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill deployed state troopers in full riot gear, on horseback, and behind expanding metal barricades to “maintain order” and create “peaceful protest zones.”

By Saturday night, gas had been fired, flash‑bangs thrown, and at least six people arrested — most of them, officials stressed, from out of state. Newark’s mayor, Ras Baraka, then signed an emergency order imposing a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew within a half‑mile of Delaney Hall, citing “weapons” found on some protesters and an “escalating situation.”

Sunday night showed what that really meant. According to on‑the‑ground reporting, armored vehicles rolled in an hour before curfew. Around 10 p.m., state police in riot gear surged forward, kettling remaining demonstrators and pushing journalists out of the area.

Roughly 30 people were arrested, including local immigration organizer Asma Elhuni, as officers enforced the new no‑go zone around a federal detention site on U.S. soil. Video shows troopers forming shield walls, dragging protesters to the ground, and sweeping the streets clear while the detention center’s lights burned behind them.

Officials and right‑wing media want the story to be about “outside agitators,” flag burning, and rocks thrown at cops. But the timeline is clear: this began with people inside Delaney Hall saying they were hungry, mistreated, and ignored — and with New Jersey’s own governor acknowledging conditions serious enough to demand changes from DHS. Instead of transparency about what’s happening inside those walls, residents of one of the most diverse cities in America are getting curfews, mounted police, and tear gas.

This is what the ICE system looks like when you rip away the press releases: private prison contractors making money, immigrant detainees on hunger strike, and heavily armed troopers treating the people speaking up for them as the real threat.

If we accept 9 p.m. curfews and riot cops any time a community demands answers about what’s happening in a locked building with no cameras, we’re not just failing migrants.

We’re normalizing a version of “public safety” that says the streets belong to the state, and the rest of us are there on sufferance.

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ICE is in Whittier I am patrolling to locate them, about 6 ICE vehicles in Whittier. A second person was seen taken but have not confirmed.
ICE is in Whittier!!

Family members are devastated and speaking out after a man died while in custody at an ICE detention center in Adelanto, California.
Details: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/family-devastated-after-man-dies-while-in-ice-custody-at-adelanto-detention-center/

ICE is breaking the law.

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