Siege of Delaney Hall
by Editorial Board · The Washington TimesOPINION:
Thank God law enforcement is finally getting serious about going after the rioters who have laid siege to the immigration detention facility at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
For the past three weeks, agitators have gone wild outside the 1,000-bed center, which President Obama contracted for ICE detention in 2011.
Clearly, the agitators want another Minneapolis, where riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to two accidental deaths. Democrats and their media allies had a field day with those tragedies, indicting what they called a “rogue agency.”
For the left, enforcing federal immigration law is a provocation.
In Newark, agitators went out of their way to provoke an ICE response. Night after night, they have clashed with agents and police sent to enforce a curfew. They have started fires, thrown projectiles and screamed obscenities.
Lately, they have upped the ante. One ICE officer was bitten on the arm. Others were punched and kicked. Another protester screamed at an agent that he would kill him, his wife and his family. The man was identified by facial recognition and arrested by the FBI.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill wants to have it both ways. The Democrat sent state police to Delaney Hall to set up barriers to create a security perimeter and called rioters “out-of-state agitators.”
Still, typical of her lawless party, Ms. Sherrill said ICE was primarily to blame for the violence. Of course, what federal agent would not want to be bitten by a rabid protester or have a deranged demonstrator threaten to kill his family?
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Ms. Sherrill refuses to acknowledge that the federal government has a responsibility to detain and remove illegal aliens — and use reasonable force to do so.
If sticks of dynamite are exploding in Newark, then Democrats such as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey lit the fuse.
Those being held at Delaney Hall include murderers, rapists and pedophiles — or, to Democratic politicians, “our neighbors.”
Perhaps Ms. Sherrill senses the tide is turning. At times, the public has been skeptical of ICE tactics, but anarchy in the streets is changing things.
First, Democrats under President Biden let in millions of illegals. Now, they oppose their removal and defame an agency charged with keeping us safe from alien predators.
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For groups such as antifa, Delaney Hall could be a bridge too far.
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