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cbabe

(6,959 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:25 AM Yesterday

No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers 'too provocative'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/new-jersey-delaney-hall-immigration-visitor-dress-code

No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’

Visitors say arbitrary and changing rules prevent visitation and cause stress to families and their detained loved ones

Farhana Sabeeha
Mon 15 Jun 2026 10.12 EDT


(Meanwhile bad food, bad water, dirty kitchen…)

The health department of New Jersey has also received a report of “potentially inadequate tuberculosis infection control practices”, according to the legal filing.



But as well as inhumane treatment of detainees, family members like Soto say the institution has found more arbitrary ways to create distress.

Since the facility opened last May, guards have rejected families, some traveling from faraway states like Texas, over leggings, Crocs, heels, dresses, shorts and more. Closely resembling prison dress codes, the regulations for visitors ban any form-fitting, revealing clothing, from open-toed shoes and leggings to pants with holes – and even wearing a T-shirt without a bra. “Gang colors”, which are not defined, are also prohibited.

The dress code states that it applies only to visitors aged 12 and older. However, in the past year, Delaney Hall has often rejected much younger kids, such as Gabriela’s toddler. According to testimony from visitors and activists, the facility has rejected preschool or elementary-aged girls over frocks and leggings.

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(Kid in leggings is too provocative… where their minds are if not simply pure harassment…)
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No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers 'too provocative' (Original Post) cbabe Yesterday OP
Calling these people weirdos is sanewashing. They are sick disgusting perverts. RockRaven Yesterday #1
You think it can't get worse, and every day it gets worse. nt LAS14 Yesterday #2
All the abuse is made possible by the denial of access to the legal system. pat_k Yesterday #3
WTAF?! sakabatou Yesterday #4
This is all about promoting the monumental insanity that immigrants are pedophiles and rapists. pat_k Yesterday #5
They delight in the humiliation crud Yesterday #6
These Detention bdamomma Yesterday #7
They're starting the christofascist poli-junkie Yesterday #8

RockRaven

(19,957 posts)
1. Calling these people weirdos is sanewashing. They are sick disgusting perverts.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:31 AM
Yesterday

And sure one can say they are just abusing their authority to be arbitrarily cruel... But they still choose which direction to go with that, and they go in the sexual with kiddos direction, the dangerous pervert direction.

pat_k

(14,386 posts)
3. All the abuse is made possible by the denial of access to the legal system.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 11:40 AM
Yesterday

The horrific conditions at Delaney Hall and at other concentration camps are only possible because the "inmates" are denied access to the legal system. There's been a lot of focus on those conditions, but not enough on the CAUSE -- the denial of access to the legal system.

It should not take extraordinary efforts to secure legal representation and secure the right to be heard in court. But the criminal barriers to access to the legal system that have been erected as a matter of policy are nearly insurmountable.

The focus has rightly been on the horrific conditions, but the REAL problem is denial of access to the legal system. Because of that denial, the private prison personnel, companies, ICE, and CBP believe they can do ANYTHING, absolutely ANYTHING to the people in their "care."

pat_k

(14,386 posts)
5. This is all about promoting the monumental insanity that immigrants are pedophiles and rapists.
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 12:10 PM
Yesterday

God forbid any catch sight of a knee.

As I said above, ultimately, all the forms of abuse boil down to the extraordinary barriers they have erected to deny those they kidnap access to the legal system. When abusers believe those they abuse have no recourse they believe they can do anything, absolutely anything. The attitude permeates from top to bottom.

crud

(1,315 posts)
6. They delight in the humiliation
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 01:09 PM
Yesterday

I was visiting a friend in the county jail. When we were being let in the facility, we went thru a metal detector and a lady in front of me set off the alarm. It was determined that she had an underwire in her bra. She couldn't go in until she removed her bra. She went into the restroom and removed it. She was wearing very form-fitting dress which was pretty revealing, and was obviously embarrassed, but having traveled a distance, she swallowed her pride to see her loved one. It was uncomfortable for all the visitors. All the visitors were treated with rudeness, no help for first timers who didn't know the proper procedures, forms not filed out properly were rejected and told to do over. Sac county sheriffs seemed to do everything they could to discourage visitors. Very sad.

bdamomma

(69,650 posts)
7. These Detention
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 01:16 PM
Yesterday

Centers or Concentration Camps are they being visited by our Congress Members or are the detainees being forgotten and illegal acts are being done to them in our name????? Disgusting.

Those being held without due process is illegal.

poli-junkie

(1,609 posts)
8. They're starting the christofascist
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 05:26 PM
Yesterday

dress code edicts with vulnerable brown folks and will apply it to everyone under their watch

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