💬 When Curfews Become the Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound: Newark's Immigration Detention Disaster
When Curfews Become the Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound: Newark’s Immigration Detention Disaster Right, let me be straight with you: slapping a curfew on Delaney Hall after clashes over an immigration detention center is like your nan putting a plaster on a broken leg and calling it sorted. It’s not a solution—it’s theater. Expensive, heavy-handed theater with police horses. I’ve been watching this story unfold, and what absolutely does my head in is how we keep reaching for the same tired playbook every time things get spicy. Trouble at the detention center? Right then, let’s restrict people’s movement! Because nothing says “we’re listening to your concerns about human rights” quite like telling folks they can’t be outside after dark, innit? ...