AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Rioting, Assault, Violating Curfew: The Charges ICE Protesters FaceMore than 80 people have been arrested during turbulent protests outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center in New Jersey over the past two weeks.Listen · 4:48 min The police arrested more than 60 people on Sunday night outside an immigration detention center in Newark after they refused to disperse despite a curfew.Credit...Andres Kudacki/Getty ImagesJune 4, 2026, 2:02 p.m. ETOver the course of two tense weeks outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark, protesters have periodically clashed with federal agents and New Jersey state troopers, and more than 80 people have been arrested.Most of the protesters have come out to support detainees and oppose President Trump’s immigration crackdown, but some have demonstrated in support of it.Most of the arrests happened on Sunday after protesters violated a 9 p.m. curfew, which Newark’s mayor had declared after a fire was set on a roadway outside the facility.It is one of the largest immigration detention centers in the eastern United States and has been a magnet for protests against the crackdown, going back to last year. It holds more than a thousand people, and hundreds are detained there at any given time.How many people have been arrested?At least 87 protesters have been arrested since last Tuesday, with 61 being arrested on Sunday night after curfew. After no one was arrested on Monday or Tuesday of this week, Newark’s mayor, Ras Baraka, lifted the curfew.What charges are protesters facing?Seventeen people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from May 26 through May 29 were charged with assaulting and impeding federal officers, including by punching, kicking and biting them, according to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT