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Lex McMenamin in Newark, New Jersey

‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words

A group of people wearing masks embrace and shield their faces on a street
A group of protesters retreats after federal agents sprayed them with a chemical agent outside Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center, where detainees are engaged in a hunger and labor strike in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

Wednesday marked the sixth day that more than 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees were on a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. Meanwhile, the mood amid the dozens of organizers and community members rallying outside the facility was tense but energized with support.

Masked protesters circulated, handing out water bottles, personal protective equipment and oranges. A few attenders who travel across the country to ICE protests wherever they occur – such as a man with a karaoke machine in a giraffe costume – trolled the ICE agents, successfully getting a giggle out of one of the few agents with his face exposed. Passing tractor-trailers on the busy industrial road punctuated protest chants with long, extended honking in solidarity.

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