The state’s mask slipped completely last night outside Delaney Hall in Newark.
While NJ State Police and ICE agents unleashed chemical irritants and mounted units to crush unarmed hunger-strike supporters and medics—trampling the very people demanding basic human dignity inside a GEO Group-operated cage—the same federal apparatus rolled out the red carpet for right-wing provocateur Cameron Higby. His armed personal security flashed weapons at the picket line with zero repercussions. Federal agents didn’t just stand by; they actively shielded him, turning the so-called “protest zone” into a VIP escort service for the regime’s preferred narrative peddler.
This isn’t “law and order.” It’s the geometry of class power laid bare: the state deploys militarized force to defend private prison profits and its propaganda pipeline while branding working-class solidarity as “riot.” Delaney Hall—a 1,000-bed facility run by GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit detention contractors raking in taxpayer billions—houses detainees on hunger and labor strike since May 22. Their demands? Edible food (not maggot-infested slop), medical care beyond Tylenol, ventilation, and release of the elderly, young, and ill. Conditions are engineered for extraction: overcrowded, freezing, neglectful. GEO’s business model depends on it.
Watch the state’s chemical weapons in action against medics and supporters:
Protesters clash with ICE agents amid hunger strike at Delaney Hall
RAW footage of clashes outside Delaney Hall
Mounted units and tear gas deployment
Now contrast that with the protection racket for Cam Higby. Protesters confronted him after he embedded in the crowd—keffiyeh and all—filming selectively to paint activists as threats. The crowd swarmed; his security detail drew weapons; federal agents ushered the whole crew inside the facility like dignitaries. No charges. No dispersal. Just safe passage.
Direct footage of the confrontation and selective shielding:
Cam Higby ganged up on by protesters outside Delaney Hall
Protesters confront Cam Higby at Delaney Hall
Anti-ICE protests continue—Higby in the mix
Tense protests erupt outside Delaney Hall immigrant detention centre in US | Protests News | Al Jazeera
Higby isn’t some “boots-on-the-ground journalist.” He’s a polished grift engine, forged in the Conservative Hype House TikTok factory that mobilized youth outrage for Trump’s election. Highly edited provocation, victim cosplay, donor cash—repeat. His brother and cousin Kim Devinscourt run the same playbook: stage the chaos, harvest the clips, launder it into “independent reporting” that funnels conservative megadonor money. Fearless Media is the brand now, but the product is the same: frame community resistance as existential violence while running interference for the real aggressors. He’s met Trump and Netanyahu personally. He’s not fringe; he’s infrastructure.
Cam Higby gets pepper sprayed at Dearborn. Fox sells it as chaos. The pattern is simple. State and corporate power move as one. GEO gets the contracts. ICE swings the batons. Higby gets the escort and the clip to feed the base.
Taxpayers fund the whole machine. The detention center. The riot gear. The private security pointing guns at hunger strikers. Workers get the hits. Detainees refusing coerced labor. Supporters risking arrest. Medics taking chemical agents for defending people inside.
The protest zone is a cage for dissent.
For regime aligned media it is a green room.
When the state drops irritants on medics it protects the profit model of human warehousing. When it escorts a provocateur who builds demand for more warehousing it shows who it serves.
No both sides polish. This is class war. Chemical agents on one side. Federal protection on the other. Hunger strikers inside Delaney Hall expose it. The street confirms it.
