curfew imposed – Newark authorities imposed a mandatory curfew around Delaney Hall, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey, after competing protests turned violent. The curfew runs from 9 a.m. to 6 a.m., as state police set up protest
When competing protest groups surged near Delaney Hall, Newark city authorities moved to shut down the area—sharply and quickly.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced a “mandatory curfew” in a half-mile radius around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey. The curfew lasts from 9 a.m. to 6 a.m., with the city pointing to what Baraka called an escalating situation around the facility.
Baraka said the measure was necessary because multiple people had already been arrested around the site, including several individuals in possession of weapons.
On Friday. New Jersey state police carved out protest zones and checkpoints around Delaney Hall. taking over from immigration enforcement agents who had been confronting demonstrators at the site. The shift signaled how quickly the situation had hardened—from planned protest activity into clashes that officials now describe as unsafe.
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, said the deployment of police would “lower the temperature” at Delaney Hall. Sherrill characterized the developments as a growing danger, telling reporters, “It has grown unsafe, and that’s completely unacceptable.”
The curfew and the police takeover are the clearest immediate response to days of clashes around the detention center, with officials emphasizing arrests—including those involving weapons—and framing their moves as a way to stop the violence from spreading further.
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Curfews always fix stuff 🙄
So it’s 9am to 6am?? That’s like almost the whole day, what are they even talking about. Sounds like they just want people trapped near the jail or something.
They said weapons were involved and arrests already happened, but does that mean ICE was starting it? Because I feel like it’s always ICE “confronting demonstrators” then everybody acts surprised when people get mad.
Mandatory curfew around an ICE detention center… I don’t know, that feels like punishment for the wrong people. Also they moved police checkpoints in and “lower the temperature” like that’s a thermostat or whatever. If they already had a bunch of arrests and “several individuals with weapons” then why do the protests even get a whole zone at all? Sounds messy and like somebody didn’t plan for the crowd size.