While most folks used Memorial Day as an opportunity to spend time with family or remembering the sacrifices for which the day was named, activists were on the clock opposing — you guessed it — ICE.
DHS published a Press Release to contradict the claims on which a blockade built around a New Jersey ICE facility was predicated. From that presser…
New Jersey sanctuary politicians – including Governor Mikie Sherrill, Senator Cory Booker, Senator Andy Kim, Rep. Rob Menendez, Rep. Nellie Pou, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Rep. Frank Pallone, and Rep. Analilia Majia – chose to spend their Memorial Day weekend spreading smears about ICE law enforcement and the Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey.
[Screenshots were embedded from social media of several politicians alleging deplorable conditions.]
The facts are all detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries. Illegal aliens also have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers. Certified dieticians evaluate meals. In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.
It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an alien enters ICE custody. This includes medical, dental, and mental health services as available, and access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care. For many illegal aliens, this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives.
“This is nothing more than a political stunt by New Jersey sanctuary politicians for fundraising clicks. There is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are NO subprime conditions or abuse at the facility,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “These sanctuary politicians should be thanking ICE law enforcement for removing murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers from their communities. We need these sanctuary politicians to stop peddling this garbage and cooperate with us to get these criminals out of their state. These types of smears are contributing to our officers facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them as they remove the worst of the worst.”
It really didn’t matter if the claim was true or not. Activists rallied around it, with their customary explicitly illegal forms of so-called ‘protest’. There were on-point quips about barricades, Les Mis, and the French Revolution.
Building their barricades, even if they had to destroy the neighborhood to do so.
🚨 WTF?! Leftists are now digging up CEMENT BLOCKS at the ICE facility in NJ to "barricade" the exit
Surge, PUMMEL AND CUFF ALL OF THEM
Pretty soon they will feel emboldened to start THROWING objects at agents.
Mass arrests!pic.twitter.com/kXCKSC0zAD
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 26, 2026
Here’s what it looked like when the ‘protesters’ had a numerical advantage and held the upper hand, tactically.
Radical activists are inspecting ICE vehicles leaving the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in New Jersey.
This is completely disgraceful. Get your shit together, ICE.
SO EMBARRASSING. @ICEgov @SecMullinDHS @DHSgov pic.twitter.com/AoGxUtubHR
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) May 26, 2026
Governor seems to have thought that ICE would give a private tour for her in the middle of a riot.
She was wrong.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill was denied access to the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility as nearby communists shouted, "Let Sherrill in!".
DHS responded to the incident: "Governor Sherrill's visit to Delaney Hall is nothing more than a political stunt on Memorial Day, when visitation… pic.twitter.com/Uoag4jaFPT
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) May 25, 2026
The protest enters the ‘find out’ phase.
🚨INCREDIBLE: ICE Agents and Federal officers have taken Leftist rioters TO THE GROUND after they tried building a blockade to the NJ ICE facility.
Lock them up.
Follow: @BoLoudon pic.twitter.com/9QEQznL1VY
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) May 25, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: Leftist rioters tried to BLOCK ICE vehicles at the Newark, NJ facility this morning — ICE agents weren’t having it.
They roughed up these twerps for interfering with federal law enforcement doing their job.
America is BACK. 🔥Rioters don’t get to obstruct ICE… pic.twitter.com/NozgXE2a2P
— GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE (@GOP_is_Gutless) May 25, 2026
It even looks as if some of them are still wearing parts of the coordinated uniforms from previous protests they were involved in, almost like music festival attendees wearing t-shirts and gear from the acts they saw last time they were at the festival.
There’s a lot of money being thrown at these highly-organized subversive events, and we hope we’re right in assuming a criminal case is being carefully constructed to take the subversives down.
Prediction: some of the faces on these videos will be shocked — SHOCKED! — to learn they aren’t getting the petty mischief or slaps on the wrist of prior administrations, but federal charges from a DOJ that’s tired of putting up with paid political subversives acting out.
