The surroundings of the immigration detention center Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jerseylived a tense day this Saturday in which protesters for and against the immigration policies of the Government of the American president confronted each other, donald trump.
Local media reported that, after the riots of recent days, a pro-government group Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appeared today on the outskirts of Delaney Hall, where for more than a week demonstrators have been stationed protesting the alleged conditions endured at the center by migrants detained there, who claim to suffer inhumane conditions.
A group of federal agents with riot shieldssome even with rifles, supported by a armored vehicle.
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Although clashes like those on Thursday between ICE troops and protesters against the Trump Governmentthe latter repeatedly confronted the group that appeared before Delaney Hall for the first time today.
On Friday, in response to the violent riots that left nine arrested, the Democratic governor from New Jersey, Mike Sherrillannounced that a protected area would be established for peaceful protests in front of the center and argued that he did not want situations like those that occurred last January in Minneapoliswhen immigration agents killed two American citizens protesting against their raids.
Legislators, activists and family members have been standing guard for more than a week to obtain answers about the situation within the privately managed facility which houses some 300 immigrantsof which a part have initiated a hunger strike after denouncing inhumane conditions.
Delaney Hall, which is the largest ICE detention center in the East Coast of the United States with more than a thousand places, it is managed by the company GEO Groupwith a 15-year contract valued at one billion dollars.
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