Leftists outside an ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, instigated a confrontation with a garbage truck driver on Wednesday night after blocking the road during a protest related to a detainee hunger strike.
A video shared on social media shows the visibly frustrated driver exiting his truck and confronting protesters after his vehicle was stopped near Delaney Hall, the immigration facility. 
&#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with y&#8217;all? I have kids!&#8221; the driver shouted at the anti-ICE demonstrators. &#8220;If I hit y&#8217;all, I go to jail!&#8221;
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! A garbage truck driver absolutely LOST IT on anti-ICE rioters in Newark for BLOCKING him from driving down the road
“I’VE GOT KIDS! If I hit ya’ll, I GO TO JAIL!”
Then the rioters started FIGHTING each other in front of the truck
We’re dealing with some HORRIBLE… <a href="https://t.co/OiSfhvurne">pic.twitter.com/OiSfhvurne</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2059990222025154777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire reached out to the truck driver&#8217;s employer for comment but did not receive a response. 
The protests escalated in recent days following confrontations between demonstrators and federal immigration authorities. Videos across social media show ICE agents being threatened and physically confronted outside the facility.
 Independent journalist Cam Higby posted a video on X showing a protester grabbing and repeatedly pulling on his keffiyeh while he was attempting to document the demonstrations. 
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🚨 Newark ICE rioter just repeatedly choked me out with my own Keffiyeh. This comes just after I confronted Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman.
They all mobbed me as I asked questions. <a href="https://t.co/h1Gq3dtyix">pic.twitter.com/h1Gq3dtyix</a>
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) <a href="https://x.com/camhigby/status/2059748571679723923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The protests intensified after roughly 300 detainees inside Delaney Hall reportedly began a hunger strike on May 22, citing poor living conditions, malnutrition, and lack of sufficient medical care. 
Several Democratic members of Congress, including Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) — who once called for the abolition of ICE — have toured the facility, describing the conditions as inadequate or inhumane. 
While several of them have been given tours of the facility, they all have yet to release any photos or video footage of the inside corroborating their story.
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security denied allegations of substandard conditions within the facility. DHS reaffirmed that detainees are provided three meals a day, have proper amenities, medical and dental care, and access to 24-hour emergency treatment. 
Delaney Hall, operated by the GEO Group, opened as an immigration detention center in 2011 during the Obama administration. The facility closed in 2017 before reopening in 2025 under a reported $1 billion federal contract that expanded capacity to nearly 1,200 beds.
President Donald Trump addressed the situation during his Wednesday Cabinet meeting.
&#8220;These aren’t protesters; these people are fake, they’re all paid for,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We run the finest facilities anywhere in the world — of their type.&#8221;
Protests at Delaney Hall have persisted for more than a year. Newark Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing on May 9, 2025. According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-sues-alina-habba-arrest-immigration-detention-rcna210581">NBC,</a> the charges were later dropped, and former interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba subsequently offered him a tour of the center. 
Baraka later sued Habba, claiming violations of his Fourth Amendment rights. 
According to the lawsuit, a security guard initially allowed Baraka onto the property to help calm the protestors outside. Special Agent Ricky J. Patel, in charge of the Newark division of Homeland Security investigations, eventually instructed Baraka to leave the premises. Baraka claims more than a dozen federal agents spontaneously approached him and members of Congress, detaining him without probable cause.

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A Delaware Superior Court Judge ruled earlier this week that in the small town of Fenwick Island, companies can cast votes in their local elections. 
Delaware Superior Court judge Craig A. Karsnitz cited philosopher Diogo Joao Baptista Gomes in his Tuesday ruling that under the legal definition of a person, &#8220;any adult, corporation, or institution is a person.&#8221; As of 2025, 12% of all registered voters in the small Sussex town were corporations, including over 200 &#8220;artificial entities,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/">Reuters</a>.
The ACLU of Delaware sued the town of Fenwick Island after it permitted non-resident property owners to vote in municipal elections. The <a href="https://www.aclu-de.org/press-releases/fenwick-corporate-voting/">ACLU</a>’s Andrew Bernstein said, &#8220;There are over two million artificial business entities incorporated in Delaware, and only about one million people.&#8221; 
The judge stated that the ACLU failed to demonstrate how Fenwick Island’s policy violated the &#8220;one person/entity/one vote&#8221; principle.
In the 2008 Fenwick Island charter update, the Delaware General Assembly revised the voter qualifications section of the town’s charter. This resulted in reaffirming authorization of non-resident property owners — including LLCs, corporations, and trusts — to vote in municipal elections, so long as they are registered to vote by March 1 before the subsequent election.
Delaware law declares that a corporation is a person, and Judge Karsnitz reasoned in his ruling that Fenwick Island’s voter laws do not practice discrimination or cause fraud, meaning that while he appreciates the ACLU in their fight, no violation took place. 
The judge stated in the ruling, &#8220;Visions of faceless large corporations or even HAL controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction. However, Plaintiff has not demonstrated that this policy violates the principle of one person/entity/one vote. … And matters of policy are appropriately left to legislative bodies, not the courts.”
Some argue the door is now open for more artificial entities to influence elections at the local level, even though the practice started in 1953 at the town’s founding. The ACLU complained that in Fenwick Island’s 2024 election, non-human voters made up the entire vote margin between the winner and runner-up. 
Following the landmark Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, national debate focused on whether a corporation was a singular person. Subsequently, a lawmaker in Montana in 2013 introduced a bill allowing corporations to vote in municipal elections on the condition of property ownership. The bill was tabled without being passed. In 2023, another Delaware town, Seaford, attempted to expand voting to businesses in an effort to help their local economy. The attempt was extremely brief. 
Still, Fenwick Island’s election laws remain entirely unique to the town being historically friendly to property owners and corporations. The ACLU’s challenge against the small town remains the only direct legal challenge to artificial entity voting.
The ACLU still has the opportunity to appeal the case to the Delaware Supreme Court.

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