{"id":645,"date":"2026-05-28T11:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:10:26","slug":"why-mikie-sherrill-embraced-the-obviously-bogus-newark-ice-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Why Mikie Sherrill embraced the obviously bogus Newark ICE protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Antifa and the local professional-protest crew opened the spring rioting season last weekend at the Delaney Park ICE detention facility in Newark \u2014 and New Jersey\u2019s Democratic establishment embraced the radicals, once again putting the lie to Gov. Mikie Sherrill\u2019s pretenses of being a moderate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=643\">Truck driver goes off on Delaney Hall anti-ICE protesters after they block him from doing his job \u2014 as Antifa thugs battle agents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pretext for the Memorial Day weekend demonstrations, with their repeated efforts to block entry and exit to the facility and otherwise interfere with federal law enforcement, was a supposed \u201chunger strike\u201d by detainees allegedly suffering inhumane conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm: Here are the horrors Sen. Andy Kim testifies to seeing on the inside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A high school student set to miss graduation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A carton of milk that soured before its \u201cSell By\u201d date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An illegal-immigrant detainee married to an American citizen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A busy court docket.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not much, as atrocities go.<\/p>\n<p>All this follows like clockwork the similar rioting outside the same facility a year ago, with much the same cast of characters, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. Rob Menendez \u2014 except that Sherrill and Kim\u2019s presence shows that the need to honor the cause is moving higher up the Democratic hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, this isn\u2019t really about any ICE abuses, or even ICE: It\u2019s just part of the Democratic left\u2019s rolling machinery of resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Why else are so many of the protesters wearing kaffiyehs? <\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian-solidarity tea-towels make some sense at anti-Israel demonstrations, but their prevalence at an anti-ICE action is a giveaway that these rent-a-mobs are \u201cprotesting\u201d purely to \u201cprotest.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=641\">Massachusetts town cancels Fourth of July celebration over public safety staffing, refuses to refund donations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They <em>live <\/em>to \u201cput their bodies on the line\u201d in service to the Unicause, knowing full well that <em>at worst<\/em> they will huff some tear gas or get pepper-sprayed, maybe spend a night in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Even violent protesters rarely face any charges, and when they do, instantly have a dozen \u201cmovement\u201d lawyers ready to blitz the courts with motions and lawsuits, gratis.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But such is the radicals\u2019 hold on the Democratic \u201cmainstream\u201d that Sherrill felt obliged to show up for the \u201ccause.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=639\">Four stabbed by knifeman shouting \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 at Switzerland train station in front of terrified children<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The circus is now running the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The circus is now running the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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