Bovino teases visit to New Jersey immigration center to ‘handle’ protests himself

Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino criticized the Department of Homeland Security‘s response to the outbreak of protests at New Jersey‘s Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Thursday.

People have gathered outside Delaney Hall since last week, protesting the conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Newark as detainees raise alarm bells with a hunger strike about what they call the facility’s “terrible and inhumane” conditions.

The protests have turned violent, as anti-ICE protesters clash with law enforcement while the situation gains increasing media attention. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin posted on social media that “approximately 100 anti-ICE rioters” flooded the protests and “assaulted and threw objects at law enforcement” on Wednesday night. As tensions escalate, Bovino, who was demoted in early 2026 after immigration enforcement personnel killed two American citizens in Minneapolis under his tenure, called for a more violent crackdown.

ICE Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey Under Siege

May 28, 2026 | Sundance

For the past several days, ICE agents and Antifa affiliated protesters have clashed outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The rioting protesters have blocked the entrance, stopping vehicles from entering the facility. Multiple trucks can be seen in this video at a standstill.

Via YouTube:

Mass CHAOS Continues as Protesters Clash with ICE Agents Outside NJ Detention Center

I’m going to ask the question again: Why Doesn’t the FBI Stop this violent, organized, national activity?

As President Trump is known to say, “don’t make it complicated.” Just look at things as they are, as they present themselves to be, and ask the most obvious questions.

“Domestic Tranquility?” Consider Antifa.

How can a group within America openly threaten police, use violence against police, throw Molotov cocktails, bricks and explosive fireworks at police. Use batons, shields, bats and physical violence against police and federal law enforcement; destroy vehicles, set cars on fire, destroy property, trash and block the streets and create chaos, completely without consequence?

It doesn’t matter where it is happening, that’s irrelevant. Think plainly and simply.

How does any individual or group get to do this without being arrested?

It doesn’t make sense, unless….

.....

…. Unless…. The group conducting the violence cannot be arrested.

Day after day; night after night, in most major metropolitan areas around the nation, the group known as “Antifa” operate with impunity. They are organized; they are funded; they communicate locally, regionally and nationally. They mobilize in designated and coordinated areas of operation, and they are exceptionally violent and dangerous.

So how is it they can operate?

They build encampments outside federal facilities and openly fight with federal officials and law enforcement. Yet, nothing is done. Why not?

If the FBI did not support Antifa, quite simply Antifa would not exist. They are right there, highly visible, doing illegal things on camera, repeatedly, all over the country, and the FBI doesn’t lift a finger to stop them. Why?

The only thing that makes sense is that the FBI wants this activity to take place.

If they did not want it to take place, they would stop it and arrest the lawbreakers who are attacking federal buildings and officers. Why hasn’t the FBI designated antifa as a domestic terrorist organization? The visuals of trashed streets, barricades, smoke bombs, riots, semi-frequent baton clashes in the streets, etc. etc. must serve some purpose for the FBI or they would stop it.

This is not misdemeanor behavior.

Arrest the participants and put them into federal prisons.

This is not complicated.

The FBI supports Antifa. If they did not support them, the FBI would stop them.

Remember this.

This is EXACTLY WHY ICE agents are FORCED to wear masks ICE Newark rioter:
“I HAVE YOUR FACE, MOTHERF***ER!”
“Your WHOLE F***ING FAMILY is DEAD!”
“Your KIDS. Your WIFE. ALL DEAD!”
This is the type of TERRORISM Democrats WANT ICE agents to face by de-masking them

Video at Nick Sortor's X account.

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