In February, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would be reopening the shuttered Delaney Hall halfway house on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey as the first new immigrant detention center to open during Trump’s second term. At the time, few could have anticipated that it would open up a new front in the struggle against mass deportations – but the newly minted detention center has now been launched into the spotlight by a wide array of New Jersey residents, activists and political leaders.

These organizers have participated in ongoing protests against the detention center, which reopened on May 1 and organizers claim violates New Jersey law. On May 9, ICE agents went so far as to retaliate to a protest and site visit by elected officials by arresting Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.