Protests continue at New Jersey ICE facility as hunger strike enters ninth day

A Newark detention center has been at the forefront of anti-ICE protests – and now counterprotests Protests continued on Saturday in front of the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, as a hunger and labor strike inside reached its ninth day, with detained immigrants demanding improved conditions and medical care. On Saturday morning, a small group of rightwing counterprotesters in Trump hats began demonstrating outside the facility waving signs and chanting slogans in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protesters supporting the detained immigrants and the counterprotesters supporting ICE yelled at each other across barricades set up by state police. The dueling Saturday demonstrations followed a hectic Friday night, during which state police fired teargas canisters and pepper ball pellets at anti-ICE protesters. State police also arrived on horseback, driving protesters back from the detention center. On Friday afternoon, New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, announced that state officials would be taking over policing outside the facility from ICE. As part of the state police’s work, they attempted to set up fences to establish a