Delaney Hall Reckoning: FBI Arrests Anti-ICE Agitators as Nonprofit Probe Intensifies

 

Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dropped the hammer on Antifa’s shadowy nonprofit funding networks. New IRS Form 990 rules now hold grant-makers liable if their funds support violence, riots, or the suppression of rights.

This puts a spotlight on taxpayer-subsidized groups possibly fueling the 11+ days of riots outside Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. For conservatives and Christians who believe in the rule of law, it raises an urgent question: Will the DOJ, IRS, or Treasury finally hold these groups accountable? While some local and state arrests of curfew violators have resulted in misdemeanor charges and quick releases (an unfortunate standard in blue-state protest handling), federal agents are stepping up with serious felony prosecutions against the worst offenders.

Independent journalist Nick Sortor’s on-the-ground footage continues to expose the professional operation: high-end tents, pallets of supplies worth tens of thousands, a medical station, riot gear, and hot meals delivered hourly. This is not grassroots frustration; it’s coordinated disruption. Federal charges are landing hard:

These are not isolated incidents. DHS has confirmed arrests of out-of-state agitators (including from Portland, Oregon) bused in to escalate the violence.

Rioters hurled rocks and 2x4s at the heads of mounted NJ State Police horses, sprayed officers with unknown liquids, threw flashbangs, and engaged in brawls. Acting AG Todd Blanche has already noted the “horrific wounds” on ICE officers and declared these “clearly not ‘peaceful protests.’”

Yet the more extensive organizing network remains untouched. Cosecha NJ (the local chapter of Movimiento Cosecha) and the Detention Watch Network have been central to the rallies and to opposition to ICE operations at Delaney Hall.

These groups enjoy tax-exempt status and the ability to receive deductible donations while framing enforcement as “inhumane.” Their materials stress “peaceful” advocacy, but when protests turn into sustained violence, trespass, obstruction of federal officers, and assaults, the line into “substantial illegal purpose” becomes unmistakable. Recall the March 2025 Executive Order and long-standing IRS precedent (Rev. Rul. 75-384): Nonprofits lose tax-exempt status when their activities include a substantial illegal purpose, such as aiding violations of federal immigration law, supporting violence to obstruct government policy, or patterns of disorderly conduct and trespass.

 

Congressional oversight committees have urged the IRS to act against groups tied to riots and interference with law enforcement. For Christians who take Romans 13 seriously, governing authorities “bear the sword” as God’s servants to punish evil and protect the innocent; this is not about politics. It’s about justice. Hardworking American families pay taxes and tithe, expecting those resources to secure our borders, support our officers, and preserve order, not to subsidize professional agitators who bite federal agents, threaten their families, and try to injure police horses while demanding open detention for criminal illegal aliens. The DOJ has begun charging individuals, holding them accountable. The evidence from Newark, professional logistics, out-of-state coordination, and repeated federal crimes is now on full display thanks to brave independent reporting.

 

The question remains for the IRS and DOJ: Will they follow through on the nonprofits enabling this? Americans deserve to know where their charitable donations and tax dollars are truly going. The riots at Delaney Hall may be the spark that forces the long-overdue reckoning.