Rioters have besieged a federal ICE detention center in Newark for three straight weeks.
Police finally ran the arrest records — and the addresses stopped making sense.
Someone organized this, someone funded it, and the trail leads somewhere the media won't follow.
Newark ICE Facility Rioters Came From Seattle, Phoenix and Chicago
Delaney Hall is a federally contracted ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey holding roughly 900 detainees — and for three weeks, the Left has turned it into a circus.
Democrat politicians showed up demanding entry. Activists blocked federal vehicles and punched agents. The whole spectacle has been livestreamed nightly to millions of followers as a rallying cry to abolish ICE.
Then the New York Post reviewed the arrest sheets — and found that of the 12 people charged with assaulting federal agents or destroying property, only three were actually from New Jersey.
The rest were imports.
Zion Napier, 28, flew in from Seattle – where he worked at a marine construction firm – and was caught on police video jumping on cars and smashing windows.
He now faces three counts of criminal mischief.
Mariano Anthony Perez, 31, made the trip from Phoenix.
Federal prosecutors say Perez punched a Homeland Security Investigations special agent in the face after refusing multiple orders to clear the entrance.
Thomas Clemens, 30 – a physical therapist from Chicago who completed a doctorate at the University of Colorado – was charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
Connecticut native Rayaan Baywa, 22, an actor who once played a kidnapping gang leader in Murder on the Orient Express, was also arrested.
Self-described trans photographer Persephone Ambriz-Squires, 27 – who lists Bergdorf-Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue as social media interests – traveled from Albuquerque and was charged with rioting.
Sarah Sullivan, 25, great-granddaughter of Lawrence Upjohn – the pharma chairman whose company brought Xanax and Motrin to market – was charged with rioting and failure to disperse.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, called out the Left’s game.
"There's an organized effort to create anarchy," Van Drew told The Post. "This is America. We have the rule of law and that has to be stopped."
George Soros Funded the Group Coordinating the Delaney Hall Riots
At least two of the arrested rioters have documented ties to the Sunrise Movement – the far-left environmental group that has publicly claimed operational credit for the Delaney Hall campaign.
Drew Larsen, 29, of Brooklyn, served as a photographer for the Sunrise Movement's Frederick, Maryland chapter.
Solomon Dunston, 28, actively promoted the Sunrise Movement on social media and urged others to join.
The Sunrise Movement isn't hiding its role.
"For 19 days…Sunrise organizers have been on the ground at Delaney Hall in New Jersey," the group boasted on Instagram – alongside daily documentation of the standoff.
Tax filings show the organization reported $2.6 million in revenue and $4.9 million in assets in 2024.
George Soros's Open Society Foundations wired at least $2 million to Sunrise between 2019 and 2023, according to grant databases.
The pattern extends well beyond Newark.
In Minneapolis, the Sunrise Movement's Twin Cities chapter ran a campaign targeting hotels believed to house ICE agents – posting to Instagram that "Our strategy to target hotels that are housing ICE agents is working."
In Portland, the group supported months of nightly confrontations outside the ICE facility there – part of a network the Capital Research Center identified as receiving at least $80 million from the Soros empire.
One federal judge in Portland just sentenced an anti-ICE protester to 30 months in federal prison for assaulting a federal officer.
Delaney Hall is producing the same charges at a faster pace.
More than 80 people have been arrested at the Newark facility since protests began three weeks ago.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made the federal position clear after the June 5 violence: "Anyone who assaults law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. RIOTERS will not slow us down."
How Anti-ICE Agitators Are Organized and Who Is Paying for It
Former prosecutor Chuck Flint watched what happened outside Delaney Hall and called it exactly what it is.
"They come in with overwhelming resources," Flint told The Post. "Any objective person who just looks at it from a 30,000 feet point of view would say that's not organic."
He's right.
Far-left organizations supplied these rioters with military goggles, helmets, knee and shin pads – gear designed for sustained confrontation with federal officers, not peaceful demonstration.
The people wearing it traveled from Seattle, Phoenix, Chicago and Connecticut to do it.
Sarah Sullivan's great-grandfather made his fortune selling pharmaceuticals to Americans.
She used hers to fly to Newark and block federal agents from doing their jobs.
The Seattle marine worker, the Phoenix puncher, the Chicago doctoral graduate, the Connecticut actor – none of them live anywhere near Delaney Hall.
They were recruited, equipped, and sent.
The Sunrise Movement has already bragged about it on Instagram.
The only question left is who else is signing the checks.
Sources:
- Geoff Earle, Gabrielle Fahmy and Sonya Gugliara, "Influx of out-of-state agitators with links to dark money group among Delaney Hall arrests," New York Post, June 14, 2026.
- "Newark police arrest 6 more protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE facility," Fox News, June 8, 2026.
- "Another out-of-state arrest raises questions about Delaney Hall protests," NJ1015, June 11, 2026.
- Joseph Vazquez, "Study: George Soros Gave 'May Day Strong' Lefties Protesting Billionaires $115M," NewsBusters, May 1, 2026.
- "Soros-backed nonprofit accuses NJ Gov Sherrill of spreading 'MAGA propaganda' on ICE detainees," Fox News, June 2026.
- "Hotel on Soros-Funded Watchlist Destroyed in Minneapolis Anti-ICE Riots," KTSA, February 2, 2026.
- "Anti-ICE protester in Portland sentenced to 30 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer," OPB, June 13, 2026.
