ICE Facility New Jersey Delany Hall Riots continue un-abatted!

 

Anti-Law-Enforcement Riots Like New Jersey’s Will Escalate Without Stronger Deterrence

By: Brianna Lyman June 01, 2026 thefederalist.com

A rioter was charged Friday “for allegedly kicking and biting ICE officers” at a New Jersey illegal immigrant holding center on Thursday, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on X. Another individual was arrested after threatening to murder an immigration officer and his family, Blanche said Friday. The Department of Homeland Security arrested at least six rioters last Wednesday alone for allegedly assaulting law enforcement, while others were arrested in the subsequent days, ABC 6 reported.

The attacks took place outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey called Delaney Hall. Fox News reported that “agitators…were seen establishing a highly organized logistics and support operation before protests began at the site. Stockpiles of masks, duct tape, hard hats and medical supplies were laid out near the facility.”

By Sunday a curfew was imposed near the facility, with Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherill saying, “It has grown unsafe, and that’s completely unacceptable.”

The arrests are welcome. But the Trump administration cannot stick to occasional prosecutions while allowing the broader ecosystem of anti-ICE extremists to operate with relative impunity. Otherwise, such violence will only continue and expand.

The Newark violence is eerily reminiscent of the riots against Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis just a few months ago. During those riots, one rioter bit the finger off an ICE agent, while others blocked and obstructed roadways and federal law enforcement, threatened authorities, and attempted to interfere with immigration enforcement.

As The Federalist’s Joshua Monnington noted, those riots came after other riots in which “Young men cavalierly chucked rocks at law enforcement vehicles; protesters with freshly ordered (and unironed) Mexican flags blockaded highways. Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn gleefully announced on Facebook that she and her ‘girl squad’ were ‘bullying the ICE vehicles.’ A government bureaucrat in D.C. heaved a hoagie at agents and walked free.”

Four far-left extremists were also arrested, in December. They were allegedly planning a series of New Year’s Eve bombings and an ambush on ICE officers in Los Angeles.

“In any case,” Monnington wrote, “the administration failed to carry out justice in a manner that was sufficiently swift, decisive, and visible enough to dissuade obstructionists from engaging in reckless, anti-ICE behavior of the kind that ultimately led to Renee Good’s death.”

As has been widely covered, in Minneapolis an ICE agent fatally shot protester Renee Good after she appeared to accelerate her vehicle toward the agent. The shooting spurred additional violence and riotous behavior. As Monnington wrote, the escalation highlighted “the need for a just and decisive crackdown on anti-ICE obstruction…that parallels the Jan. 6 manhunt, not in the corrupt politicization, but in its scale and effectiveness.”

As Monninton wrote shortly after Good’s death, “Now only a law enforcement effort with the magnitude of that launched by the Biden administration in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 protests will have any chance of restoring the law and order ICE needs to enforce immigration law effectively. Leaving aside the Jan. 6 prosecutions’ largely corrupt and politically weaponized underpinnings, the Trump administration needs to imitate its scale justly.”

In fact, the riots outside Delaney Hall happened precisely because the Trump administration has not responded strongly enough to the previous violence. Much like the riots outside Delaney Hall, the riots in Minnesota appeared to be well-funded and planned.

The New York Post reported that Indivisible Twin Cities “led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota.” Indivisible “is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the ‘Trump agenda,’ and received $7,850,000 from [George] Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023…”

Fox News reported that another financial backer of the protesters is a Chinese Communist Party “advocate traced to a multitude of dark money organizations known to fuel far-left, CCP-influenced extremism in the U.S. and across the globe.” One of the groups Neville Roy Singham reportedly bankrolled is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which the House Oversight Committee flagged as having “organized” and engaged with “a series of destructive protests and civil unrest,” according to Fox News.

Taken together, it’s clear ongoing violence against ICE agents and facilities is not from isolated grassroots protesters but a coordinated, well-funded network willing to use disruption, intimidation, and outright violence to make following federal immigration laws logistically difficult and even impossible.

To the administration’s credit, President Donald Trump has recognized the seriousness of the threat to an extent. Trump announced he was designating Antifa as a terrorist organization just days after Charlie Kirk was murdered by a radical left-winger who engraved bullet casings with slogans including, “Hey fascist! Catch!” The announcement also followed an Antifa cell’s attempt to assassinate police officers outside of ICE’s Prairieland Detention Center in July.

That action suggests the administration understands the underlying problem, but the question is whether it is willing to act with sufficient and necessary force to solve it.

The Biden administration used the full weight of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies to relentlessly pursue Jan. 6 defendants, including defendants whose offenses were far less serious than assaulting federal officers. In fact, some people Biden targeted had committed no crimes at all, such as parents who peacefully showed up to school board meetings, traditional Catholics, and even innocent grandmothers.

If the Biden administration can weaponize federal agencies to target innocent political dissidents, the least the Trump administration can do is crack down on violent criminal organizations.

 

Another criminal illegal alien caught, sentence and will be deported. Good job ICE!

 

Illegal immigrant who led Iowa’s largest public school district sentenced to 24 months in jail

Federal prosecutors argued that Roberts knowingly built his career while lacking authorization to work in the country and submitted false documents during the hiring process.

By Nicholas Ballasy justthenews.com 5-31-26

The former leader of Iowa’s largest public school district was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison after admitting he falsely claimed U.S. citizenship and illegally possessed firearms, capping a stunning collapse for a once-prominent education administrator.

Ian Roberts, the former superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, pleaded guilty earlier this year to immigration and weapons charges that prosecutors said stemmed from years of deception about his legal status in the United States. Roberts, who was born in Guyana, is expected to face deportation after serving his sentence.

Federal prosecutors argued that Roberts knowingly built his career while lacking authorization to work in the country and submitted false documents during the hiring process. They advocated for a sentence of more than three years, describing serious misconduct.

Defense attorneys instead requested probation, arguing that Roberts would likely be deported once released from custody.

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger ultimately imposed a 24-month sentence, rejecting the request for probation.

 

The Governor of New Jersey continues to battle ICE and lt's pursuit to enforce government immigration regulations.

 

Anti-ICE protests in New Jersey boomerang on Democrats as escalating violence forces curfew

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who earlier embraced protesters, acknowledged Sunday l some had engaged in “dangerous actions.”

By John Solomon justthenews.com 5-31-26

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who earlier embraced protesters outside a federal immigration detention center in Newark, acknowledged early Sunday that some had engaged in “dangerous actions” against local police as escalating violence forced the city’s mayor to impose an emergency curfew.

Protesters grew increasingly aggressive Saturday night as they threw projectiles, grabbed security barriers and set fires outside ICE’s Delaney Hall facility. Mayor Ros J. Baraka admitted some were arrested in possession of weapons, necessitating the curfew.

The escalating violence created an embarrassment for Democrats like Sherrill who had embraced the protests just 24 hours earlier and asked ICE to stand down and let New Jersey police handle the crowds only to see her own officers assaulted and fires set on the streets.

Shortly after midnight Sunday, Sherrill put out a statement acknowledging the severity of the violence and saying it had “put peaceful protesters and law enforcement in danger.” She blamed agitators outside New Jersey for the escalation.

“I do not know why these individuals attacked or what they wanted to accomplish, but I refuse to let these dangerous actions detract from New Jersey’s dedication to ensuring public safety, keeping people safe from ICE, and that the people detained inside Delaney Hall are treated with dignity,” the governor added.

Baraka issued a curfew covering a half-mile radius around the ICE facility in his city, outlawing civilians in the area from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.

“Multiple individuals have already been arrested and found in possession of weapons, underscoring the seriousness of the threat,” he said.

 

Florida is one of just a few States complying with the Federal Immigration Law, Rule and Regulations.

 

Nearly 25,000 immigration arrests made in Florida

Florida will continue to use every available resource to identify dangerous individuals, support federal immigration enforcement and keep our citizens safe,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor justthenews.com 5-29-26

Since Florida launched its immigration enforcement effort, Operation Tidal Wave, in February, nearly 25,000 arrests have been made statewide.

“Florida will continue to use every available resource to identify dangerous individuals, support federal immigration enforcement and keep our citizens safe,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said. “No state has moved faster or done more to combat illegal immigration than Florida, and we will continue to lead the charge in protecting our communities.”

Operation Tidal Wave was launched as Florida leads the country with the most 287(g) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreements of any state, The Center Square reported. The program is named after a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996 and authorizes ICE to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration functions under its supervision.

The Trump administration expanded the program to include three models: the Jail Enforcement Model (JEM), Task Force Model (TFM) and Warrant Service Officer (WSO) model, The Center Square reported. Florida is the only state to have all of its sheriffs participating in 287(g), with most participating in the TFM and or all three models. Nearly 200 police departments, 12 state agencies and 15 state universities and colleges, as well as county commissioner detention facilities and correctional facilities, are participating in 287(g). No other state has as many agencies participating in 287(g), and primarily in the TFM, as Florida does, according to ICE data.

During the first week of Operation Tidal Wave, Florida law enforcement arrested more than 1,100 criminal illegal foreign nationals, a record for Florida. The only state with more arrests in a single week is in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star is underway. While these arrests are not solely through 287(g) partnerships, Texas law enforcement through OLS have made more than half a million arrests over the last five years, The Center Square reported. OLS is ongoing.

Key 287(g) partnership arrests were made in Florida through three recent multi-agency immigration enforcement operations: Operation Sandhill Sentinel, Operation LOCATE and Operation Criminal Return.

In south Florida, Operation Sandhill Sentinel led to the arrest of 250 illegal foreign nationals, including those with extensive criminal histories ranging from domestic violence to drug offenses, DUI and assault, among other violent crimes. Those arrested also had final orders of removal and repeat immigration violations, ICE found.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FDLE), Broward Sheriff’s Office, ICE, U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard were involved in the operation.

Another key arrest earlier this month was of a Honduran national and known MS-13 gang member illegally residing in Palm Beach County. A multi-agency operation led to the arrest of Luis Merary Peralta-Sevilla, who illegally entered the country in 2013 in Texas. He was never deported until the second Trump administration, which also designated MS-13 as a foreign terrorist organization. MS-13 members are also being prosecuted nationwide.

In Operation Criminal Return, FDLE and ICE sought to identify criminal foreign nationals who are registered sex offenders and sexual predators. In a 10-day targeted operation they arrested 230 people statewide, including sexual predators and sex offenders, convicted felons, a convicted drug trafficker, and convicted murderers, according to FDLE and ICE.

In Operation LOCATE, the FDLE partnered with Homeland Security in an intelligence-led initiative focused on identifying and locating unaccompanied alien children (UACs).

They located more than 400 UACs statewide and outside of Florida, verifying their safety and living conditions “while uncovering cases involving trafficking concerns, missing children, and other high-risk situations,” the governor’s office said.

UACs are foreign national children under age 18 who arrive in the U.S. without their parents or family members. They are primarily smuggled into the country and once in the U.S., the federal government doesn’t deport them but sends them to live with so-called sponsors. Florida has historically received the most UACs behind Texas and California, The Center Square reported.

As the border crisis worsened under the Biden administration, sponsors in 29 counties in Florida received more than 10,000 UACs, The Center Square reported.

In response to reports of abuse and neglect of UACs in Florida, DeSantis called for a state grand jury to launch an investigation. It found “horrible atrocities inflicted on immigrant children in Florida” including allegations of human trafficking and child abuse. It also found that the federal government lost track of more than 20,000 children in Florida and performed no background checks on the sponsors the UACs were sent to, among other issues, The Center Square reported.

Last year, the Trump administration launched an initiative to conduct welfare checks on UACs after President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said more than 350,000 UACs were unaccounted for.