Overview
- New York City has implemented more than 24 new sanctuary rules that require training for municipal staff and bar routine data-sharing with ICE, including an order for the Department of Correction to stop daily reports about certain detained noncitizens.
- The policy shift responds to a sharp rise in federal immigration arrests in the region, with ICE reporting 5,567 arrests in the New York metro area and a 71% increase over the prior comparable period.
- Roughly 300 detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark signed a letter that families and advocates say launched a hunger and work strike to protest food, medical care and the detention of vulnerable people, a claim the Department of Homeland Security disputes.
- Protests outside Delaney Hall escalated into confrontations where federal officials used crowd-control measures to clear barricades, DHS said agents were sprayed with a chemical, and at least two people were arrested; Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned of 'zero tolerance' for assaults on agents.
- State and local leaders, including New Jersey’s governor, senators and Newark’s mayor, say ICE denied inspection requests and are demanding investigations or closure of Delaney Hall while advocacy groups press for transparency and transfers or releases for medically vulnerable detainees.