Police arrested eight people who had formed a human chain this morning in front of the Elizabeth Detention Center in protest of the government’s deportation policies. About 60 people chanted “not one more” and “education, not deportation” along industrial Evans Street, which houses the detention center, a nondescript beige one-story building operated by the private prison management company Corrections Corporation of America. When Elizabeth police arrived around 7:45 a.m., eight of the protesters had formed a human chain across the street, their arms connected inside red two-foot-long PVC pipes.
