An anti-police group involved in the unrest outside of an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars stemming from Garden State taxpayers, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.

For nearly two weeks, protesters have gathered outside Delaney Hall demanding that ICE close the facility and release the illegal immigrants held inside, and the demonstrations have at times turned violent, with rioters sporting homemade shields, erecting barricades, and clashing with federal and state law enforcement, leading to nearly 80 arrests.

Resistencia En Acción New Jersey (REA NJ), a Princeton-based group whose stated mission is “to defend the migrant community criminalized by local police, ICE, exploitative employers, racial profiling and the detention and deportation system,” has been a major organizer behind the unrest.

The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium, a grantmaking nonprofit that aims to support local journalism to “meet the information needs of low-income communities and racial and ethnic communities,” has sent some $370,000 to REA NJ since 2022, accounting for roughly 40 percent of the anti-ICE group’s total revenue for that period. Nearly three-quarters of the consortium’s funding has come from the state of New Jersey, the group’s executive director, Lisa Sahulka, told the Free Beacon. For 2022, however, it was closer to 94 percent, according to an audit from that year.

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