About Those “Protesters” a the ICE Detention Center in New Jersey . . .
14th May 2025
How are the guards supposed to be sure the “protesters” aren’t preparing a “jailbreak”?
I have not seen this asked in any news reports or commentary, but the question sticks in my mind.
The “protests” at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey seem to be expanding and getting more violent after the Newark mayor was arrested when he rushed into the facility.
Much of the media and other supporters of the mobs assembling at the gates of the Delaney Detention Center assert that the mobs are mere “protesters” or that they are just trying to “inspect” the facility. But how can the guards be sure of that? How do the facility guards know that, once inside the facility, the “protesters” or “inspectors” won’t try to release the detainees, or to slip contraband or weapons to the detainees?
An argument I hear from people who oppose private ownership of guns is that homeowners should never shoot burglars because a burglar’s life is more valuable than a homeowner’s material “stuff.” A common response to that argument is to point out that, as the burglary is beginning, the homeowner has no way to know what the invading person intends. Does the intruder intend “merely” to take “stuff”? Or does the intruder intend to kidnap or rape or murder? What if the intruder who plans to “merely” take stuff changes his mind during the action?
On what basis are the guards at the Delaney Hall supposed to be sure that the mayor, the clergy, and the mob at the facility’s gate are “merely” protesting, and not intent on entering the facility to release the detainees? Especially since the guards at the center now have experience with the mob rushing into the facility when the guards opened the gate for an authorized vehicle?
The potential for a “jailbreak” seems to be a realistic possibility. Therefore, basic facility security would seem to call for the guards to use full force against a mob that is assembling at the gates.