Several protesters arrested at New Jersey ICE facility as clashes continue

A police officer prepares his non-lethal gun near the Delaney Hall detention center on 31 May 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photograph: Andrés Kudacki/Getty Images View image in fullscreen A police officer prepares his non-lethal gun near the Delaney Hall detention center on 31 May 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Photograph: Andrés Kudacki/Getty Images Several protesters arrested at New Jersey ICE facility as clashes continue Dozens reportedly arrested for defying curfew at Delaney Hall in Newark amid hunger and labor strikes at facility Officials in New Jersey said Monday that several protesters were arrested overnight for defying a curfew at Delaney Hall , the Newark immigration detention center that has seen more than a week of chaotic and often violent clashes. The state’s Democratic attorney general, Jennifer Davenport, posted on X that a group of individuals “had come to the protest armed with helmets, shields, or gas masks, [and] deliberately refused to comply with repeated orders to leave the area”, resulting in their arrest. The New York Post, which had journalists at the scene, reported the number of arrests was at least between 20 and 25 – and published photographs of several people being led away in cuffs by state police. A social media post from advocacy groups, including the Immigration Coalition, late on Sunday said there were “over 46 Delaney Hall protesters … arrested”. ‘We want fans to know the risks’: US immigrant rights groups mobilize across World Cup host cities amid ICE fears Read more CBS News reported that state officers in riot gear, and others on horseback, rushed the crowd less than 15 minutes after issuing a dispersal order to people gathered outside a half-mile exclusion zone around the facility, some of the scenes captured on a video posted to YouTube by bystanders. On Friday, Davenport and Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey’s Democratic governor, announced that state law enforcement would be taking over policing duties outside the detention center from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to try to lower tensions after eight days of confrontations with supporters of immigrants being held inside. Delaney Hall detainees have been engaged in hunger and labor strikes against conditions at the center, and the temporary suspension by government officials of visitation rights for their families. View image in fullscreen An anti-ICE protester is detained during a curfew outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on 31 May 2026. Photograph: Ryan Murphy/Reuters Newark’s mayor, Ras Baraka, said in a social media post on Sunday that he was mandating an immediate 9pm to 6am curfew “due to the escalating situation at Delaney Hall and the increasing need for police intervention … to protect public safety”. Multiple individuals, he said, were arrested on Saturday night in possession of weapons. In a statement on Sunday, Sherrill said violence by the protesters endangered law enforcement and the public. “I refuse to let th