Why All the Hullabaloo Over ICE Detention in New Jersey?

As you’ve likely heard, a fracas broke out at the ICE Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, N.J., last week, which resulted in the arrest of the city’s mayor and threats to investigate three members of Congress. Both sides may want to take a breather, but it all raises the question of why there is so much hullaballoo over that or any other immigration detention facility — particularly given all the clear, but apparently unconsidered, unintended consequences of that facility not operating in the Garden State.