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How Delaney Hall Went from Rehab Center to National ICE Flashpoint
How Delaney Hall Went from Rehab Center to National ICE Flashpoint - Mother Jones The crackdown at the Newark facility continues.Delaney Hall has been many things: a jail, a halfway house, a rehabilitation facility. For the past year, however, it’s been something more fraught: an ICE detention center and the site of ongoing clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters. Reporters aren’t allowed in, health inspections are rare, and congressional oversight has been obstructed—as my recent interview with Rep. LaMonica McIver revealed. She’s now a year into a battle against criminal charges stemming from her attempt to inspect the facility.
So much of what we know about the inner workings of Delaney Hall comes from the letters that detainees have smuggled out with allegations of wormy food, denied medical care, and unsafe working conditions. In December 2025, 41-year-old Jean Wilson Brutus, died inside.
With Delaney Hall now thrust into the national spotlight, there’s still so much we don’t know. That’s why I wanted to talk to two reporters who have been watching this closely.
So much of what we know about the inner workings of Delaney Hall comes from the letters that detainees have smuggled out with allegations of wormy food, denied medical care, and unsafe working conditions. In December 2025, 41-year-old Jean Wilson Brutus, died inside.
With Delaney Hall now thrust into the national spotlight, there’s still so much we don’t know. That’s why I wanted to talk to two reporters who have been watching this closely.
‘We are not criminals’: protests erupted as hunger strike rocked New Jersey ICE jail - The Guardian
Health officials denied full access to New Jersey ICE facility: Lawsuit - The Independent via MSN A lawsuit from the New Jersey Department of Health demanded “immediate entry” to Delaney Hall after investigators were provided only limited access to the facility.
IN RELATED NEWS:
Trump’s Ousted Border Goon Launches MAGA Revolt - The Daily Beast via MSN Bovino spoke to a far-right news outlet and said he was now in “battle” not with immigrants but with “timid politicians” afraid to target them on a mass scale, singling out Trump’s “inner circle.”
ICE agent who shot Renee Good dead quietly reassigned as FBI probe stalls - The Daily Beast via MSN
Memphis Is “Under Full-Blown Occupation” by ICE. Here’s Why You May Not Know That. - Mother Jones Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
First plane with west African migrants Trump expelled from US lands in Sierra Leone - Tag24 The country is the latest African nation to accept deported migrants from the US in recent months, under a Trump administration push fiercely criticized by rights groups.
Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Closing Soon Leaving Behind $1 Billion in Unpaid Costs - NPR The symbol of Trump’s deportation effort faced cost overruns and accusations of torture.
'You should be really freaked out': DHS chief refuses to commit to court orders - Rawstory Minnesota's Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz — a Republican appointee — found that ICE violated 96 court orders in a single month, writing that "ICE is not a law unto itself."
A TOM IN EVERY PLOT:
Onlookers taken aback by Scott Turner's anti-immigrant claim - Rawstory via MSN
Scott Turner, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said during an appearance on Fox News that "tens of millions of illegal aliens came across our borders unchecked," and that "because of that, it put a great strain on our housing market."
"Turner is not the worst member of Trump's cabinet. But he is an embarrassment to the office he holds and the oath he took," Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and contributing editor for The Atlantic, posted.
"Immigrants have added $3.7 trillion in housing wealth for U.S. homeowners," political strategist Sawyer Hackett pointed out.
"A cabinet of toadies and serial liars," wrote Dennis Kavanaugh, the chair of the Industrial Commission of Arizona. "Ask him to produce evidence to support his claim."
"Turner is not the worst member of Trump's cabinet. But he is an embarrassment to the office he holds and the oath he took," Norman Ornstein, a political scientist and contributing editor for The Atlantic, posted.
"Immigrants have added $3.7 trillion in housing wealth for U.S. homeowners," political strategist Sawyer Hackett pointed out.
"A cabinet of toadies and serial liars," wrote Dennis Kavanaugh, the chair of the Industrial Commission of Arizona. "Ask him to produce evidence to support his claim."
MEANWHILE, THE GRIFT CONTINUES:
A New Level of Corruption: DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup "Folks very close to the White House... were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year,” said a journalist tracking the purchases. “The decision was made to buy them at taxpayer expense.”
Legal expert appalled by report on Trump's DHS chief - Rawstory
The Independent reported in late May that Markwayne Mullin regularly uses a controversial $70 million Gulfstream jet to fly home to Oklahoma on Thursdays and doesn't return to work until Monday afternoon, meaning he works at most three days a week in Washington, D.C. The aircraft includes a queen bed, a bar, and showers, according to the report. It was one of nine jets the Trump administration approved to purchase with funds meant for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it added.