Demonstrators gathered outside Delaney Hall in Newark on Saturday amid growing tensions as a reported hunger strike continued at the 1,000-bed immigrant detention center.
Supporters of ICE and President Donald Trump’s immigration policies faced off against protesters calling for the detention center’s closing and due process protections for detainees. Even with Newark police and New Jersey state troopers on the scene to maintain order, exchanges between the two sides were often heated and personal. On a day of glorious spring weather, Americans’ deep divide on immigration policy was on full display.
Veteran news photographer Thomas E. Franklin chronicled the scene for NJ News Wire, a network of local journalism outlets that is supported by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.
