Overview
- Protests that began around Memorial Day weekend over detainee complaints have at times turned violent and led Newark to impose a nightly curfew and tighten a policing perimeter around Delaney Hall.
- Governor Mikie Sherrill ordered New Jersey State Police to the site to replace ICE crowd control, a deployment the Department of Homeland Security praised while also saying the perimeter is fully closed and prosecutions for obstruction will continue.
- Detainees and advocates report a hunger strike and claims of spoiled food, denied medical care, transfers and retaliation, while DHS officials and border czar Tom Homan have publicly rejected those claims after site visits and released facility menus.
- Mayor Ras Baraka said he will expand city litigation and file a new suit seeking closure and broader inspections of the GEO Group‑run, 1,000‑bed facility if operators continue to limit access for health and safety reviews.
- Law enforcement has made dozens of arrests, federal prosecutors charged a man who threatened an ICE officer, and coverage has split along political lines with visiting officials offering sharply different accounts of conditions inside the center.