Dozens of protesters have spent days surrounding the gates of an immigration detention center where detainees are on hunger strike to protest what they have described as unconstitutional and inhumane conditions inside.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in military gear with heavily armored police trucks remain in a standoff with protesters outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where agents have torn down makeshift barriers that protesters used to block vehicles from transferring detainees after clashes over Memorial Day weekend.
