{"id":171,"date":"2026-05-30T10:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:45:31","slug":"escalating-tensions-at-newark-migrant-prison-draws-ire-of-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Escalating tensions at Newark migrant prison draws ire of lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>Calls for the closure of a notorious private immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey are growing by the day after 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees launched a hunger and labor strike over the Memorial Day holiday and issued a letter that drew attention to their miserable plight inside the facility that\u2019s owned by The GEO Group, a private prison corporation and major Trump donor.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=168\">Republicans want to make the Texas Senate race about manliness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For months, detainees, their families and advocates have said GEO Group was serving up inedible food and was failing to provide essential medical care despite the fact GEO Group has a billion dollar contract with the federal government. Detainees are paid $1 a day if they help maintain the facility, while GEO Group CEO George Zoley gets $11.2 million in annual compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the detainees are without any legal counsel or fallen prey to fly-by-night immigration attorneys. Advocates say that others have secured court orders for their release but remain incarcerated. Some have actually signed voluntary self-deportation papers but have languished for months while GEO profits from their incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Over the subsequent six days since the strike started, activists and the detainee families reported that visiting hours had been canceled and that tensions were quickly rising inside and outside the 1,000 bed site in Newark\u2019s industrial Ironbound section. Families of the detainees and their supporters are worried about reprisals on those inmates who signed on to what is now a series of letters that are an indictment of a system operating totally outside the law and any kind of semblance of due process.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, U.S. Senator Andy Kim sounded the alarm that his office was being swamped by calls alleging the detainees were now being pepper-sprayed and roughed up inside GEO Group\u2019s Delaney Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf true, these actions must stop immediately. \u2026 ICE and GEO have a responsibility to keep detainees safe: they\u2019ve instead refused to let State health officials conduct full inspections and have repeatedly stood in the way of Congressional oversight,\u201d Kim wrote. \u201cThe people inside Delaney Hall deserve their day in court and to be treated humanely, not violently. The time is now to shut this broken facility down.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSomeone will be killed if no one intervenes and shuts this down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cRight now, there are ICE agents inside of Delaney Hall violently beating the hunger strikers,\u201d Nedia Morsy, the director of Make the Road New Jersey told WHYY. \u201cSomeone will be killed if no one intervenes and shuts this down. These masked agents are acting as if they\u2019re above the law. This is a modern-day concentration camp, and history will not forgive silence at this moment. We need to shut down Delaney Hall and free everyone inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Democracy Now Friday morning, Rep. Analilia Mejia, D-N.J., who has been inside the facility, confirmed that four detainees had been hospitalized after guards used pepper spray and physical force inside Delaney Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the detainees strike, the Department of Homeland Security has denied there\u2019s an ongoing hunger strike. As for the latest reports of the use of force inside Delaney, DHS contends staff \u201cused the minimum amount of force to safely deescalate the situation. Following the incident, all affected detainees were promptly evaluated by on-site medical personnel and were cleared with no serious injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f723cabd90103b7d6ca2f54e31f9a8cc.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Photo by Adam Gray\/Getty Images)<\/span> An ICE agent sprays chemical irritants at protesters and media outside the federal immigration center at Delaney Hall, where ICE is housing detained immigrants on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. The ongoing protests, which became tense over the holiday weekend, come amid reports of a hunger strike by detainees.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At an impromptu White House press conference, President Donald Trump said the Delaney Hall protestors were \u201cfake\u201d and being paid. In response, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins threatened, on the eve of the World Cup to be hosted in the U.S., to curtail international flights by ending such flights at Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re currently drawing up plans to say, \u201cListen, in these sanctuary cities where the radical left Democrats aren\u2019t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn\u2019t be processing flights into their cities either,\u201d Mullin said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Kim, who had led a fact-finding tour inside the for-profit prison, had himself been pepper sprayed when he attempted to de-escalate tensions between the protestors and the federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p>Over the holiday weekend Gabriela Soto, 28, whose husband Martin was abducted by ICE back in February, told WBAI she and her two children were all American citizens \u2014 but that didn\u2019t matter to immigration officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband was out getting diapers and he was just taken because of a language barrier,\u201d Soto told listeners. According to Soto, who is expecting her third child, the fact that her husband was married to an American citizen and had two children who were also citizens was of no consequence. \u201cThe judge didn\u2019t think that was good enough to release him and that\u2019s what is wrong with the system. People have legal rights and they are being taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin Soto was ultimately transferred to another private prison in nearby Elizabeth, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>For months, early on in Trump\u2019s second term, a handful of committed social justice activists kept a vigil at the sprawling facility that reported an in-custody death back in December. Last year, months before the murders of Renee Good and Alex Peretti at the hands of DHS officers, Newark and Delaney Hall were the flashpoint for a local community based push back against Trump\u2019s mass deportation strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Back on May 9, 2025, masked federal immigration officers seized Newark Mayor Ras Baraka off of a public street outside Delaney Hall. Several hundred city residents, social justice activists, and dozens of Newark police officers encircled the DHS site where Baraka was being held. He was released in a few hours.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=166\">\u201cHacks\u201d finale is a moving tribute to comedy\u2019s power to keep going<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charges against Baraka were ultimately dropped, but charges were brought against Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who along with Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., and Rep. Robert Menendez Jr., D-N.J., tried to shield Baraka from the federal agents. McIver faces 17 years in jail if convicted on the charges.<\/p>\n<p>GEO Group is currently fighting the City of Newark over the municipality\u2019s right to require a certificate of occupancy and regular fire department inspections of the massive congregant care site. GEO Group has no firefighting capability and in the event of a fire, it would be up to Newark to respond.<\/p>\n<p>This week, scores of protestors assembled outside Delaney Hall and witnessed visits from\u00a0 elected officials like New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who was turned away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply disturbed by reports of the poor conditions at Delaney Hall. Unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional living conditions are completely unacceptable,\u201d Sherrill said in a statement. \u201cI have long opposed private detention facilities and advocated against them. I will continue to call for the closure of Delaney Hall because of reports like these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several members of Congress, led by Kim, spent time inside the facility and with the family members of the detainees who were outside looking for updates on their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>ICE reported a half-dozen arrests outside the facility after masked agents used force against protestors who they said were blockading the entrances to the facility.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m deeply disturbed by reports of the poor conditions at Delaney Hall. Unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional living conditions are completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Back in December, 41 year-old Jean Wilson Brutus, who was originally from Haiti, died the first day he was in custody. In the press release confirming his death, federal officials\u00a0 denigrated\u00a0 him as a \u201ccriminal illegal alien\u201d \u2014 something his family vehemently denies asserting he had gone through a rigorous four month vetting process in order to enter the U.S., according to reporting in the New Jersey Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has regularly and systematically mischaracterized the individuals they have abducted off the streets or from the DOJ\u2019s immigration courts, labeling them criminals despite multiple well-sourced reports that over 70 percent have no criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Minnesota prosecutors charged an ICE agent for a January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg and then lying about the basic facts in the case, which at the time DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said was \u201ca defensive shot to defend\u201d the officer\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a federal judge threw out the federal criminal case brought against Kilmar Brego Garcia that the Trump administration had originally sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Judge Waverly Crenshaw cited in his ruling Garcia\u2019s assertions the Trump DOJ had brought the case as a \u201cvindictive and selective prosecution in violation of the Fifth Amendment\u2019s Due Process Clause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, 18 detainees have died in ICE or private custody across the country. Last year, 32 people died in ICE custody, the most since 2004. Others have been shot or killed and died in the process of fleeing DHS agents.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of Trump\u2019s second term, there were roughly 40,000 people in ICE custody. In just one year, that number was a record 73,000 at the start of this year.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the striking detainees appear to be holding their resolve and we all need to hope that they continue to do so for the sake of America\u2019s soul. Trump is relitigating the Civil War, hoping to recreate a nation sorted out by color.<\/p>\n<p>Believe your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>When you saw the Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 6th, we had turned a corner back in time. With Trump\u2019s mass pardon of the violent Jan. 6 insurrectionists we sunk deeper into the hateful darkness of America\u2019s racist and genocidal past that\u2019s animating today\u2019s immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany hearings are canceled, leaving detainees waiting months for a court date,\u201d wrote the detainees in their first letter demanding justice. \u201cIn the same way, prosecutors file motions to send individuals to Latin American countries such as Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and even Uganda in Africa \u2014\u00a0countries with equal or worse conditions of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With just weeks to go before the 250th anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence, we owe a great debt to the 300 detainees who are putting so much at risk to show us just how much trouble this nation is in.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=161\">How seeing Bruce Springsteen in DC gave me hope<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials allege Delaney Hall is rife with abuse. 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