Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stand guard in front of protesters outside Delaney Hall which is being used as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey on May 27, 2026. The protests, which have become tense over the holiday weekend, come amid reports of an ongoing hunger strike by hundreds of detainees in the facility. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has dismissed protesters outside a New Jersey immigration detention facility as “fake” and “paid for” as demonstrations intensified and Democratic lawmakers demanded investigations into conditions inside the center.
Video footage from the scene showed protesters clashing with ICE agents outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25 as tensions escalated over immigration enforcement.
Evgenia Filimianova is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of international stories, with a particular interest in foreign policy, economy, and UK politics.
