On Tuesday night, federal agents took decisive action against demonstrators outside the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey, utilizing pepper spray and physical force to disperse anti-ICE protesters. This incident followed several days of unrest at the privately managed facility.
Video footage shared by FreedomNewsTV vividly depicts the tense standoff, with protesters attempting to impede the movement of vehicles exiting Delaney Hall in Newark. Federal authorities are seen actively working to prevent these individuals from blocking the roadway and to clear the path for the vehicles.
The confrontation escalated as the recorded images show federal agents pushing protesters away from the vehicle they were impeding. In response to contact with the vehicle’s hood, agents resorted to using pepper spray and batons to deter the protesters and restore order.
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In the wake of ongoing clashes, the federal agents’ forceful actions underscore the heightened security measures now in place at Delaney Hall, a privately operated immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The incident on May 26, 2026, highlights the ongoing tensions surrounding immigration enforcement and the measures taken to maintain control. (Source: FNTV)
On Tuesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin addressed the latest confrontation in a post on X.
“ICE law enforcement officers were assaulted by anti-ICE rioters who sprayed law enforcement with an unknown chemical substance,” Mullin wrote, adding that two individuals were arrested for allegedly assaulting, resisting and impeding federal officers.
Federal agents were seen hitting some agitators with batons during the encounter outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (FNTV)
The clashes extended a weekend protest over conditions for detainees in the facility, prompted by a reported hunger strike undertaken by the detainees themselves.
Mullin on Monday denied the claims, writing, “There is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions.”
Protestors and ICE agents clashed outside the Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against detainee transfers in Newark, N.J., on May 26, 2026. (Andres Kudacki/AP)
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During the days of demonstrations, prominent New Jersey Democrats came to the facility, including Sen. Andy Kim and Gov. Mikie Sherrill. While Kim was allowed entry to the facility, Sherrill was denied.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., stand outside Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center during a protest on Monday, May 25, 2026. (Governor Mikie Sherrill)
Democrats, including Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., rallied around Sherrill, criticizing ICE and the facility on social media.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday said, “We will NOT let rioters stop or slow @ICEgov down.”
ICE agents detain a protestor outside the Delaney Hall detention center after demonstrators protested the transfer of detainees in Newark, N.J., on May 26, 2026. (Andres Kudacki/AP)
“While New Jersey sanctuary politicians and anti-ICE agitators chose to spend their Memorial Day weekend smearing law enforcement and rioting outside ICE’s Delaney Hall facility, our law enforcement continued to put their lives on the line to arrest murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers,” the department wrote on X, replying with a thread of posts and images of criminal illegal aliens they say have been arrested.
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