The battle outside a controversial New Jersey immigration detention center intensified on Saturday as Governor Mikie Sherrill issued a stark warning to what she described as outside agitators and extremist organizations.
After days of escalating confrontations outside Newark’s Delaney Hall facility, the Democratic governor revealed that the overwhelming majority of protesters arrested during Friday night’s disorder were not even from New Jersey.
The disclosure came as hundreds of rival demonstrators, one side backing ICE and the other demanding the closure of the detention center, faced off behind newly erected barricades under the watch of heavily armed law enforcement officers…