said in a statement<\/a> on Sunday that she had contacted ICE to gain access to the detention center and was working to monitor the situation and \u201cdo what\u2019s necessary to ensure humane conditions.\u201d<\/p>\nAt Monday\u2019s protest, some protesters shouted in Ms. Sherrill\u2019s face to criticize her for not showing up earlier in the weekend, like other elected officials had.<\/p>\n
Representative Rob Menendez of New Jersey had arrived at 8 p.m. on Sunday and stayed all night until he was allowed into the center on Monday morning. Mr. Menendez said that he had spoken to some of the detainees inside Delaney Hall, including a young woman who just wanted to go to her high school graduation, a pregnant woman who was trying to get medical care, and a man who showed him a carton of milk that had gone rancid.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard just desperation from so many people in there,\u201d Mr. Menendez said afterward.<\/p>\n
Angela Martinez told Ms. Sherrill that her cousin, Bolivar Bueno, 65, has diabetes and that she hasn\u2019t been able to speak to him to make sure he is getting medication. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on,\u201d she told the governor.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Ms. Martinez said, \u201cI want for her to help me out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Sherrill left after about an hour, around 11:30 a.m., as some demonstrators jeered at her. Her security had to clear the road of a couple people who tried to stop her S.U.V. from leaving.<\/p>\n
A few hours later, a convoy of ICE vehicles approached another entrance on the south side of Delaney Hall. Protesters, who had rallied at the north entrance in the morning, ran over to sit down in front of the vehicles. Many said they feared that the detainees on hunger strike inside would be transferred to other facilities.<\/p>\n
ICE agents \u2014 most of whom were wearing face masks \u2014 pushed and shoved the protesters out of the way, even dragging one young man by a kaffiyeh around his neck. As the protesters chanted \u201cTrump Has To Go,\u201d they linked arms and faced the ICE agents.<\/p>\n
The standoff prevented anyone from leaving through the south entrance. Soon after, a military-style vehicle moved toward that entrance, with a man on top holding a firearm pointed at demonstrators.<\/p>\n
Senator Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, who had been allowed inside Delaney Hall, came out during the confrontation and walked over to support the protesters. Soon afterward, the ICE agents and military vehicles backed away from the entrance and slightly retreated toward to the detention center, but the standoff continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey provoked it, they brought that tank over,\u201d Mr. Kim said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting worse and worse here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The senator said he was working to \u201cde-escalate\u201d the standoff through negotiations with federal officials and would push for families to be allowed to visit detainees as early as Tuesday. \u201cI\u2019m going to keep at it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Not long after, the standoff escalated with ICE agents using pepper balls and mace on the crowd.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time Delaney Hall has faced protests. In June 2025, four men escaped from the detention center after days of unrest over meager and sporadic meals and overcrowding that forced some detainees to sleep on the floor. Detainees had smashed windows, doors and security cameras.<\/p>\n
And Mr. Baraka, the Newark mayor, was arrested in May 2025<\/a> during a clash with federal agents outside its gates last year.<\/p>\nDakota Santiago contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, a Democrat who has clashed with the Trump administration over immigration policies,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,290749,290747,32380,26901,290748,74619,290752,1997,3,19808,290746,290750,290751,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-665190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-baraka","tag-delaney-hall-newark","tag-demonstrations","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-us","tag-immigration-detention","tag-mikie","tag-new-jersey","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-protests-and-riots","tag-ras","tag-sherrill","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}