2026年6月4日 美国东部时间7:34 / 福克斯新闻
使用秘密代号的用户组织医疗物资，包括呼吸器、胡椒喷雾擦拭巾和护垫
作者：阿斯拉·Q·诺曼、迈克尔·多根、普雷斯顿·米泽尔 福克斯新闻
视频显示反ICE煽动者在纽瓦克骚乱中威胁探员家属
视频记录了尼古拉斯·马修·塞尔福据称在纽瓦克德莱尼厅拘留设施外的示威活动中，向移民海关执法局探员尖叫着发出威胁。（X平台/@nicksortor）
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6月3日上午11:30，社交媒体上发出了集结信号，呼吁抗议者和煽动者聚集到新泽西州纽瓦克的德莱尼厅移民海关执法局拘留中心——这里已成为美国最具争议的移民斗争战场之一。
“宵禁结束。返回德莱尼厅，”一条Instagram帖子写道。该帖子由一群激进的反以色列、马克思主义和民主党组织推广，包括“巴勒斯坦团结工作组”、阿尔-奥达组织、“不可分割”组织和50501组织等。过去几周，这些组织一直在与移民海关执法局、纽瓦克警方和新泽西州州警发生激烈冲突。
短短几分钟内，这一号召便通过加密通讯平台Signal的秘密群组传播开来，激活了数百名使用“framed.unrest”和“Wicked Something”等秘密代号的反ICE活动人士。他们协作规划交通、后勤和物资筹备，包括护目镜、防胡椒喷雾装备、呼吸器和护膝。
福克斯新闻数字频道的调查通过收集纽瓦克现场信息、Signal秘密聊天记录、数十份税务申报文件、战略文件和社交媒体帖子发现，德莱尼厅外的抗议并非自发的愤怒宣泄。这是一个资金充足、组织严密的网络经过多年战略规划的结果，该网络再次利用当地争议发起针对联邦移民政策乃至整个美国的更广泛攻击。
该网络的活动促使X平台上一群名为“数字侦探”的用户——@Astrarce、@bitchuneedsoap和@gunshymartyr——组成数字复仇者联盟，渗透进这些群组、Signal聊天和他们的行动。
蓝州拘留中心在与抗议者冲突中增设新路障加强安保
州警在2026年5月29日新泽西州纽瓦克针对拘留人员转移和联邦移民政策的抗议活动中，于德莱尼厅拘留中心外逮捕一名人员。（安德烈斯·库达基/美联社）
根据福克斯新闻数字频道的分析，幕后推动德莱尼厅抗议活动的网络包含约100个团体，其中不乏美国公民自由联盟、“不可分割”组织和美国民主社会主义者等知名组织。这些组织的年度总收入约为8.25亿美元，大致相当于纽瓦克市的年度预算。这些组织未回应置评请求。
其中约70个团体获得了美国国税局的慈善特殊认定，具有常规501(c)(3)和501(c)(4)非营利组织地位，以及劳工工会501(c)(5)和501(c)(6)非营利组织地位，可享受可抵扣税款的捐赠和某些免税福利。近几个月来，财政部长斯科特·贝森特以及众议院筹款委员会、众议院司法委员会和众议院监督委员会的议员已启动调查，调查这些组织涉嫌滥用非营利法人地位煽动冲突、制造分裂甚至鼓动政治暴力。
被一位专家称为“德莱尼厅100人团”的该网络，使用一份名为《德莱尼厅创作简报》的战略沟通文件中的统一话术进行沟通。福克斯新闻数字频道从X用户@b—-uneedsoap处获取了这份战略文件。文件指示内容创作者将拘留中心称为“集中营”，将被拘留者称为“被监禁的囚犯”和“被俘者”。它告诉活动人士不要说被拘留者是被逮捕的，而是要声称他们是“被绑架/诱拐/带走的”。
2026年6月1日，抗议者聚集在新泽西州特伦顿州议会大厦州长米基·谢里尔的办公室外，要求她采取行动并就德莱尼厅ICE拘留设施问题与该团体对话。（拉希德·乌马尔·阿巴卜 福克斯新闻数字频道 摄）
他们的战术与今年早些时候明尼阿波利斯抗议ICE行动的体系如出一辙，军事专家表示，这些行动类似于叛乱战术。
“我们应该非常警惕‘德莱尼厅100人团’，”非营利组织专家、前美国参议院幕僚长查克·弗林特说道。“我们在德莱尼厅外看到的这类抗议并非自发抗议。这些是由非营利组织大军策划的、经过战略计算的行动，目的是推动颠覆性活动。这些团体的年收入超过了许多他们抗议活动所在的城市。他们像军事营队一样，有能力压倒一个城市的公共安全资源。”
“这是大卫对抗歌利亚，”曾担任州检察官的弗林特补充道。
福克斯新闻数字频道分析：明尼阿波利斯煽动者网络如何使用叛乱战术阻挠ICE
哈桑·皮克尔在新泽西州的抗议活动中接受采访。（迈克尔·多根/福克斯新闻数字频道 摄）
上周末，福克斯新闻数字频道曝光了一系列自称为社会主义、马克思主义和共产主义的极左翼团体，他们与移民团体混在一起。其中包括美国民主社会主义者、美国革命共产党、“发声社会主义”、“拒绝法西斯主义”、“自由道路社会主义组织”、“自由社会主义党”和“黑豹党”。
福克斯新闻数字频道观察到帐篷里存放着呼吸器、护目镜、护垫、消毒用品和其他抗议支援装备。
上周六晚，有争议的马克思主义网红哈桑·皮克尔戴着粉色防毒面具抵达抗议现场快速巡视。他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他前来声援被拘留者的诉求，在现场停留不到30分钟便乘车离开。
后来，他回应福克斯新闻数字频道拍摄的装满防暴装备的帐篷照片时，称这些物资是“互助援助”。
周三晚间的抗议筹备工作让人们得以了解这些组织如何激励、协调、动员、聚焦和训练其基层参与者。
下午1:17，用户“Pete InDC”分享了拘留设施外的一段视频，画面中一辆汽车持续鸣笛，多雷姆斯大道上用粉笔写着“ICE滚出去”。
“快过来！”“Pete InDC”写道。
纽瓦克抗议开始前，德莱尼厅外的煽动者已建立有序后勤运作
- 图片1/2 下一张 2026年5月30日周六，新泽西州纽瓦克德莱尼厅附近的补给站可见抗议者。（福克斯新闻数字频道/迈克尔·多根）
- 图片2/2 上一张 2026年5月30日周六，新泽西州纽瓦克德莱尼厅外抗议现场可见摆放着物资的桌子。（福克斯新闻数字频道/迈克尔·多根）
下午1:29，用户“yarrow”问道：“今天有从纽约来的拼车吗？或者有医护人员从纽约过来？”
下午1:46，其他人询问主要抗议组织者之一科塞沙是否批准了此次抗议，还有人开始组织后勤工作，从日常事务入手：食物、饮料、自行车停放架、交通、停车和帐篷，就像要去参加一场音乐会一样。
“Tamale”问道：“所以如果我们去的话，应该带物资还是只集会？人们需要水吗？”
下午2:11，当“Durga”呼吁“在多雷姆斯大道的人点赞”这条消息时，另一名用户“tiny”告诫“Durga”，警告“请不要在聊天中暴露自己的身份”，并补充道“也不要要求别人这么做”。
这些组织经常使用自己的行话，例如汇编“otg”——即“现场”——情报。
下午3:08，“Jay D”问道：“有人在现场吗？可以提供报告吗？”
联邦特工在新泽西州击退反ICE煽动者，德莱尼厅拘留设施外陷入混乱
2026年5月27日，新泽西州纽瓦克移民设施德莱尼厅外，抗议者、政客和ICE探员聚集在一起。（拉希德·乌马尔·阿巴卜 福克斯新闻数字频道 摄）
很快，通讯转向与执法当局对峙的严肃准备工作。
下午4:07，“Mason D”提出要带来“用于应对胡椒喷雾/催泪瓦斯袭击的苏迪康擦拭巾、多套手肘/膝盖护垫、电解质饮料”和“非通风式护目镜”。苏迪康擦拭巾是专门的消毒湿巾，设计用于中和并去除胡椒喷雾和催泪瓦斯等化学防御喷雾。
幕后，这些活动前的协调工作已经持续了数月甚至数年。上周末的暴力动员是在当地组织约一年的低调行动之后展开的。
5月下旬，数百名被拘留者发起绝食和劳工罢工，点燃了更广泛的宣传组织、法律团体、宗教领袖、社区组织者、民选官员和全国性非营利组织的网络，他们迅速围绕该设施展开动员。
几天之内，国会代表团要求获得探视权，快速响应网络协调新泽西州各地的抗议活动，该事件也成为全国性政治新闻。
福克斯新闻数字频道发现，许多如今活跃的组织在当前抗议开始前，已经花费数年时间建立联盟、沟通网络、资助关系和快速响应基础设施。
民主党市长在ICE设施被捕后，蓝州政治斗争升级：“怒不可遏”
数十名反ICE骚乱者在新泽西州设施外被捕
“德莱尼厅100人团”的起源可以追溯到2025年2月，当时联邦承包商GEO集团宣布将根据与ICE的长期合同，重新开放纽瓦克的德莱尼厅作为联邦移民拘留设施。该设施位于纽瓦克自由国际机场附近，曾在2017年关闭前关押过移民被拘留者。
2025年4月，纽瓦克市对重新开放提起法律诉讼，称该设施在未获得所需许可和检查的情况下开始运营。民主党市长拉斯·巴拉卡公开反对该项目，并将德莱尼厅作为他与联邦移民当局和私人拘留承包商持续争端的核心议题。
大约在那时，一小群当地活动人士开始在设施外聚集。根据参与者的说法，一名活动人士在被拘留者抵达前几天独自前往德莱尼厅，向员工分发传单并表达对移民拘留的担忧。几天后，又有两名活动人士加入。最初的非正式守夜活动逐渐演变为在设施外的定期活动。
大卫·马库斯：民主党应为新泽西州反ICE骚乱中的混乱和种族主义负责
视频显示反ICE煽动者在纽瓦克骚乱中威胁探员家属
这些早期集会成为后来被称为“关注ICE新泽西”的基础。
2025年春夏期间，该联盟不断扩大。“新泽西和平行动”、“新泽西圣克里斯多夫和平姐妹会”、“纽约和新泽西之友”以及其他宗教和活动组织的成员开始参与定期守夜和支援活动。
第一次重大直接行动抗议发生在2025年5月14日，当时与“信仰新泽西”相关的神职人员和几个一神论普世教会联合会会众封锁了设施的主入口。
到2025年秋季，多个组织已在拘留中心周围建立了持续存在的据点。
围绕德莱尼厅的运动主要通过三个重叠的联盟运作。
第一个是“关注ICE新泽西”，源自设施外的日常守夜活动。其成员专注于监控拘留中心的活动、支持探视家属、记录情况并在大门外保持公开存在，开展叙事战，与媒体分享家属故事，让家属登上麦克风，并为议员提供选民案例研究，以加强他们向联邦官员提出的论点。
第二个是“ICE滚出新泽西”，作为更广泛的动员和立法运动运作。它汇集了移民权利组织、快速响应网络、劳工联盟团体和直接行动活动人士，反对拘留扩张和移民执法政策。
第三个是新泽西移民正义联盟，作为一个联盟伞组织，连接全州约59个成员组织。其成员包括法律倡导组织、劳工盟友、移民权利团体、信仰组织和社区网络。
这带来了明确的劳动分工：一个联盟专门负责观察、媒体外联、社区支持和个人叙事，另一个专注于动员、政治压力和全州组织工作，第三个则聚焦移民议题。
要理解“德莱尼厅网络”的影响力，需要追踪维持其主要参与者的非营利组织资金流，包括开放社会基金会和NEO慈善机构等大型民主党捐赠者，它们为该网络的一些有影响力的参与者提供支持。
参议员谴责“草根”反ICE团体，敦促司法部调查“协调一致的全国性行动”
2026年5月30日周六，新泽西州纽瓦克德莱尼厅外抗议现场可见佩戴安全帽、护目镜和呼吸器的人们。（福克斯新闻数字频道/迈克尔·多根 摄）
在德莱尼厅争议期间，包括民主党参议员安迪·金、科里·布克、新泽西州州长米基·谢里尔、众议员拉蒙尼卡·麦基弗、众议员罗布·梅嫩德斯在内的民选官员已成为这场辩论中备受瞩目的参与者。但抗议者也将矛头对准了他们，“不可分割”组织周一在谢里尔的办公室组织了抗议，美国民主社会主义者周二在新泽西州总检察长詹妮弗·达文波特的办公室外举行了示威。
尽管福克斯新闻数字频道能够编制出组成“德莱尼厅100人团”的组织名单，但该网络的大部分工作仍然保密。
“从下到上，几乎所有事情都被隐瞒了，包括Signal聊天室里的身份、资金来源、街头人员和领导人的姓名，”非营利组织专家弗林特说道。“他们知道自己的行为是错误的。他们不想让你知道谁是负责人。他们戴着面具。他们不想让你了解他们的组织、他们的人员。他们在颠倒规则。他们对ICE探员大喊：‘你们都戴着面具。’与此同时，他们自己也戴着面具。”
“他们将非营利法人地位当作剑和盾，”弗林特说道。“他们利用它来利用所有规则，当他们陷入麻烦时，又用它来保护自己。”
随着抗议演变为暴力，“德莱尼厅100人团”中的更激进分子使用自制盾牌和刀剑，这种紧张局势在最近几天显现出来。
下午4:31，一名使用“sqeek”代号的匿名Signal用户分享了一份“医疗物资捐赠清单”，专家称这份清单类似于为军事行动准备的清单，通常会标明制造商和品牌类型，包括：“3M 8246呼吸器”、六个“防毒面具滤毒罐”、“3M 60923”、“护目镜——防碎、无通风口或泡沫边缘（符合ANSI 87.1或MIL-PREF 32432标准）”。
“sqeek”在消息末尾加上了肌肉 flex臂的表情符号。
如约而至的是，许多身着黑白格巴勒斯坦头巾（即凯菲耶）的极左翼白人抗议者于昨晚8点左右开始陆续出现在德莱尼厅前的多雷姆斯大道上，在Signal聊天中分享通勤和停车难题。
晚上9:42，一名站在障碍物后的煽动者喊道：“这就是反叛乱的样子！”
随后，在晚上9:47，仿佛照着沟通策略脚本念词，该团体指示将德莱尼厅称为“集中营”，另一名抗议者对着大多为少数族裔的纽瓦克警察和其他执法人员大喊，声音哽咽：“你们为集中营工作！你们为集中营工作！辞职吧！”
“去死吧！”一名男子补充道，人群开始齐声高喊：“辞职吧！辞职吧！”
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Secret Signal chats reveal how anti-ICE agitators coordinated Newark riots
June 4, 2026 7:34am EDT / Fox News
Users with secret monikers organize medic supplies including respirators, pepper spray wipes and protective pads
By Asra Q. Nomani, Michael Dorgan, Preston Mizelle, Fox News
Video appears to show anti-ICE agitator threatening agent’s family during Newark riot
Video captures Nicholas Matthew Scelfo allegedly screaming threats at an ICE officer during a demonstration outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark. (X/@nicksortor)
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At 11:30 a.m. on June 3, an activation signal went out on social media calling protesters and agitators to swarm Delaney Hall, the Newark, N.J. ICE detention facility that has become one of the nation’s most contentious immigration battlegrounds.
“CURFEW IS OVER. BACK TO DELANEY,” read an Instagram post, promoted by a fiery collection of anti-Israel, Marxist and Democratic organizations — from “Palestine Solidarity Working Group” and Al-Awda to Indivisible and 50501 — that have joined tumultuous against the ICE, Newark police and New Jersey state troopers over the past couple of weeks.
Within minutes, the call to action spread through secret groups on Signal, an encrypted messaging platform, activating hundreds of anti-ICE activists with secret monikers like “framed.unrest” and “Wicked Something,” collaborating on transportation, logistics and supplies, like goggles, protections against pepper spray, respirators and protective knee pads.
A Fox News Digital investigation, gathering information on the ground in Newark, in secret chat groups on Signal and from scores of tax filings, strategy documents and social media posts, reveals the protests outside Delaney Hall are no organic outpouring of spontaneous rage. They are the result of years of strategic planning by a network of well-funded, well-organized groups that have once again exploited a local controversy to wage a wider attack on federal immigration policies and the U.S. in general.
The activities of this network have motivated a group of tech sleuths on the X — @Astrarce, @bitchuneedsoap and @gunshymartyr — to penetrate these groups, their Signal chats and their operations like a digital Avengers squad.
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State police officers arrest a person outside Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against detainee transfers and federal immigration policies in Newark, N.J., on May 29, 2026.(Andres Kudacki/AP)
According to Fox News Digital’s analysis, the network behind the Delaney Hall protests includes about 100 groups, some of them big names like the ACLU, Indivisible and Democratic Socialists of America. Together, these organizations report collective annual revenues of about $825 million, approximately equal to the annual budget of Newark. The groups didn’t respond to requests for comment.
About 70 of the groups have received special designations as charities by the IRS, have status as regular 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, as well as labor union 501(c)(5) and 501(c)(6) nonprofits, enjoying tax-deductible donations and certain tax-free benefits. In recent months, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee have launched investigations into the alleged abuse of nonprofit laws to instigate conflict, sow discord and even inspire political violence.
The Delaneny network — which one expert calls the “Delaney Hall 100” — message around shared language assembled in a strategic communications document, called the “Delaney Hall Creator Brief,” which Fox News Digital obtained from X user @b—-uneedsoap. The strategy document directs content creators to call the detention center a “concentration camp” and label detainees “imprisoned prisoners” and “captives.” It tells activists to eschew saying detainees were arrested, but rather assert they were “kidnapped/abducted/taken.”
Protestors gathered outside Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s office at the State House in Trenton, N.J., on June 1, 2026, demanding she take action and speak to the group about the Delaney Hall ICE facility.(Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Their tactics mirror the system deployed in Minneapolis earlier this year to protest ICE actions, and military experts say the operations resemble the tactics of an insurgency.
“We should be very concerned about the Delaney Hall 100,” said Chuck Flint, a nonprofit expert and former U.S. Senate chief of staff. “Protests like the kind we’re seeing outside Delaney Hall are not organic protests. These are manufactured strategic, calculated endeavors by an army of nonprofits meant to push subversive activity. These groups generate annual revenues greater than many of the cities in which they protest. They [act like military battalions] with the ability to overwhelm a city’s public safety resources.”
“It’s David vs. Goliath,” said Flint, who is also a former state prosecutor.
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Hasan Piker speaks with an interviewer during a protest in New Jersey.(Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
Last weekend, Fox News Digital spotlighted a series of far-left groups that self-identify as socialist, Marxist and communist blending in with immigrant groups. They included Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. Revolutionary Communist Party, Speak Out Socialist, Refuse Fascism, Freedom Road Socialists Organization, Freedom Socialist Party and the Black Panthers.
Fox News Digital observed tents stocked with respirators, goggles, protective pads, decontamination supplies and other protest-support equipment.
Late last Saturday, controversial Marxist influencer Hasan Piker arrived at the protests for a quick walk-through, wearing a pink gas mask. He told Fox News Digital that he was there to advocate for the demands of the detainees inside, remaining on the scene for less than 30 minutes before driving off.
Later, he responded to Fox News Digital’s images of the tents filled with riot-gear provisions and called the supplies “mutual aid.”
The preparations for protests Wednesday night offer a window into how the organizations motivate, coordinate, mobilize, focus and discipline their foot soldiers.
By 1:17 p.m., a user, “Pete InDC,” shared a video outside the detention facility, with a car honking nonstop and “ICE OUT” drawn in chalk on Doremus Avenue.
“Come on down!” wrote “Pete InDC.”
AGITATORS OUTSIDE DELANEY HALL SET UP ORGANIZED LOGISTICS OPERATION BEFORE NEWARK PROTESTS BEGAN
- Image 1 of 2 next Protesters are seen at a supply station near Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 30, 2026.(Fox News Digital / Michael Dorgan)
- Image 2 of 2 prev Tables of supplies are seen at a protest site outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 30, 2026.(Fox News Digital / Michael Dorgan)
At 1:29 p.m., “yarrow” asked, “any car pools from nyc today? or any medics coming from nyc?”
By 1:46 p.m., others asked if one of the main protest organizers, Cosesha, approved the protest, and yet others started organizing logistics, starting with the ordinary: food, drinks, bike racks, transportation, parking and tents, as if they were headed to a concert.
“Tamale” asked “so if we do go should we be bringing supplies or only rallying? do ppl need water.”
By 2:11 p.m., when “Durga” asked for others to “like” the message if they were on Doremus Avenue, another user — “tiny” — admonished “Durga,” warning “please don’t self id in the chat,” adding “or ask others to.”
Often these organizations speak their own language, for example, compiling “otg” — or “on the ground” — intelligence.
At 3:08 p.m., “Jay D” asked, “Is anyone otg and can give a report?”
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Protestors, politicians and ICE agents gather outside Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026.(Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Quickly, the communications moved into a very serious preparation for a showdown with law enforcement authorities.
By 4:07 p.m., “Mason D” offered to bring “sudecon wipes for help with pepper spray/tear gas attacks, multiple sets of protective pads for elbows/knees, electrolytes” and “non-ventilated goggles.” Sudecon wipes are specialized decontamination towelettes designed to neutralize and remove chemical defense sprays like pepper spray and tear gas.
Behind the scenes, months, or even years, of coordination precede these events. This past weekend’s violent mobilization came after about a year of quieter activism by local groups.
In late May, hundreds of detainees launched a hunger and labor strike, igniting a wider network of advocacy organizations, legal groups, faith leaders, community organizers, elected officials and national nonprofits that quickly mobilized around the facility.
Within days, congressional delegations were demanding access, rapid-response networks were coordinating demonstrations across New Jersey, and the issue had become a national political story.
Fox News Digital found that many of the organizations active today had spent years building coalitions, communications networks, funding relationships and rapid-response infrastructure before the current protests began.
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The origins of the Delaney Hall 100 can be traced to February 2025 when GEO Group Inc., a federal contractor, said that it would reopen Delaney Hall in Newark as a federal immigration detention facility under a long-term contract with ICE. The facility, near Newark Liberty International Airport, had previously housed immigration detainees before closing in 2017.
In April 2025, the City of Newark filed legal challenges against the reopening, arguing that the facility had begun operations without required permits and inspections. Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka publicly opposed the project and made Delaney Hall a central issue in his ongoing dispute with federal immigration authorities and private detention contractors.
Around then, a small group of local activists began gathering outside the facility. According to accounts from participants, one activist started visiting Delaney Hall alone in the days before detainees arrived, distributing flyers to employees and raising concerns about immigration detention. Within days, two additional activists joined. What began as an informal vigil evolved into a regular presence outside the facility.
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Video appears to show anti-ICE agitator threatening agent’s family during Newark riot
Those early gatherings became the foundation for what would later be known as “Eyes on ICE NJ.”
Throughout the spring and summer of 2025, the coalition expanded. Members of “NJ Peace Action,” “Pax Christi New Jersey,” “Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace,” “First Friends of New Jersey and New York” and other faith and activist organizations began participating in regular vigils and support activities.
The first major direct-action protest occurred on May 14, 2025, when clergy associated with Faith in New Jersey and several Unitarian Universalist congregations blocked the facility’s main entrance.
By the fall of 2025, multiple organizations had established an ongoing presence around the detention center.
The movement surrounding Delaney Hall largely operates through three overlapping coalitions.
The first, “Eyes on ICE NJ,” grew from the daily vigils outside the facility. Its members focus on monitoring activity at the detention center, supporting visiting families, documenting conditions and maintaining a public presence outside the gates, engaging in narrative warfare, sharing family stories with the media, putting family members in front of microphones and giving lawmakers the constituent case studies to bolster their arguments with federal officials.
The second, “ICE Out of NJ,” functions as a broader mobilization and legislative campaign. It brings together immigrant-rights organizations, rapid-response networks, labor-aligned groups and direct-action activists to oppose detention expansion and immigration enforcement policies.
The third, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, functions as a coalition umbrella linking about 59 member organizations across the state. Its membership includes legal advocacy organizations, labor allies, immigrant-rights groups, faith-based organizations and community organizing networks.
The result is a division of labor: one coalition specializes in observation, media outreach, community support and personal narratives, while the other concentrates on mobilization, political pressure and statewide organizing, and the other focuses on the immigration issue.
Understanding the power of the Delaney Hall network requires following the nonprofit funding streams that sustain many of its major participants, including big Democratic donors like Open Society Foundations and NEO Philanthropies, that act as a source of support for some of the network’s influential participants.
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People are wearing hard hats, goggles and respirators near a protest site outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday, May 30, 2026.(Fox News Digital / Michael Dorgan)
During the Delaney Hall controversy, elected officials including Democratic Sen. Andy Kim, Sen. Cory Booker, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Rep. Rob Menendez and others have become highly visible participants in the debate. But the protesters have also turned on them, with Indivisible organizing a protest at Sherrill’s office on Monday and Democratic Socialists of America demonstrating outside the offices of New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport on Tuesday.
While Fox News Digital has been able to compile the list of organizations that make up the Delaney Hall 100, most of the network’s work remains secretive.
“Most everything is concealed from the ground up to their identities in Signal chat rooms, their funding and names of the people on the streets and their leaders,” said Flint, the nonprofit expert. “They know what they are doing is wrong. They don’t want you to know who is in charge. They have masks on. They don’t want you to know anything about their organizations, their people. They are flipping the rules. They shout to the ICE agents: ‘You all are wearing masks.’ Meanwhile, they are wearing masks.”
“They use nonprofit status as a sword and a shield,” said Flint. “They use it to take advantage of all the rules and then when they get in trouble they use it to protect themselves.”
That tension has emerged in recent days as the protests have turned violent with more radical elements of the Delaney Hall 100 emerging with makeshift shields and swords.
By 4:31 p.m., an anonymous Signal user, using the “sqeek” moniker, shared a “MEDIC DONATIONS” list that experts said resembled one that would be prepared for a military operation, often identified by the manufacturer and brand type, including: “3M 8246 respirators,” six “Gas mask filters,” “3M 60923,” “Goggles — shatterproof, without vents or foam edges (ANSI 87.1 or MIL-PREF 32432).”
“Sqeek” punctuated the message with the emoji of a muscular flexed arm.
On cue, agitators, many of them far-left white protesters clad in the black-and-white checkered Palestinian scarf called a keffiyeh, started trickling onto Doremus Avenue in front of Delaney Hall around 8 p.m. last night, sharing their commuting and parking woes in their Signal chat.
At 9:42 p.m., one agitator, behind barriers, shouted, “This is what counterinsurgency looks like!”
And then, at 9:47 p.m., as if reading off the communications strategy script, directing the groups to call Delaney Hall a “concentration camp,” another protester yelled at the mostly minority Newark police officers and the other law enforcement authorities, her voice breaking: “You work for a concentration camp! You work for a concentration camp! Quit your job!”
“Kill yourself!” a man added, as the group broke into a chant, “Quit your job! Quit your job!”
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Asra Nomani is senior editor of investigations at Fox News Digital. She is a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered stories related to money, politics and society. She is the author of Woke Army: The Left-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom. She can be reached at asra.nomani@fox.com and on X at @asranomani.