The curfew outside Delaney Hall has been lifted. But inside — nothing has changed.
Delaney Hall is a privately operated ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey. For months, detainees have been on a hunger and labor strike over conditions described by organizers, attorneys, and local officials as inhumane. Outside, protesters have faced tear gas, mass arrests, and journalists have been taken into custody.
Detainees are demanding a meeting with the governor, release of medically vulnerable detainees, and an end to coercive pressure to sign deportation documents.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka asked the question everyone should be asking: “Why do we have 18-year-old girls who are pregnant inside of this place? Why do you have young girls who are having miscarriages?”
“The win would be for the detainees to be released,” said organizer Zellie Imani. “No one in that facility is my ethnicity or my nationality, and they don’t have to look like me in order for me to care for humanity.”
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