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On Sunday night, New Jersey police arrested dozens of protesters for defying a curfew outside of Delaney Hall, the immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey, where hundreds of detainees are on day 11 of a hunger strike.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka instituted the curfew on Saturday night, after both state and local police charged at the protesters. The day before, Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill dispatched the state police to take over control from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers outside of Delaney Hall. While she said that she was doing this to avoid giving ICE “the pretext to expand operations” in New Jersey, she effectively enabled greater collaboration between the two agencies that deployed violence against protesters.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin called Sherrill’s decision a “win for law and order” and thanked the governor for “allowing New Jersey State Police to cooperate with us.”

Shortly after Sherrill’s dispatch on Friday, state police blocked off road access to the jail and set up checkpoints. But ICE agents did not immediately withdraw from outside of Delaney Hall, either.

Paulo Almiron, media coordinator for Resistencia en Accion New Jersey, an organization that has been on the ground supporting the hunger striking detainees, described the situation on Friday night to Truthout.

ICE and Prison Guards Retaliate Against Detainees and Protestors at Delaney........

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