NEWS: We are increasing funding for the Detention Deportation Defense Initiative by $12 million – for a total of $20.2 million. We are also launching a Rapid Legal Response Initiative to expand statewide legal capacity for emergency immigration defense and support immigrant families across New Jersey. These actions will help ensure more people in New Jersey's communities receive due process under the law and more New Jersey attorneys are mobilized to stand up for the fundamental human rights of detainees and their families.

What do advocacy, protests, activism, and strikes have in common? THEY WORK! This is a huge milestone for the hunger strikers, and a testament that our Governor hears their demands. Let's keep the momentum up!

Another example of why you'll never hear us say "most people in ICE jails arent criminals."

Delaney Hall hunger strikers demanded release of the elderly, the youth, and the vulnerable. And then release of everyone inside! There are now NO pregnant women in Delaney Hall. And today the high school senior is released and ready to graduate. Some down, ALL to go!

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

The NJ mask ban was supposed to apply to ICE. Not protesters.

Thank you @RepLaMonica @RepMenendez @RepJeffries for bringing the conversation back where it belongs. This is about the original protesters - the ones inside. Delaney Hall's strikers demand: #FreethemALL staring with the elderly, the youth, and the medically vulnerable.

Our community is holding ICE accountable and I want to be sure we have the tools to do so safely. At our Know Your Rights workshop last night, @NJAIJ discussed best practices when dealing with DHS and ICE. We are in this together and we will protect each other.

This afternoon, I conducted a congressional oversight visit of the privately-owned ICE facility, Delaney Hall, in Newark, NJ. What I witnessed and learned from discussions with detainees and officials was deeply disturbing and warrants further oversight and investigations. The medical neglect—denying people access to potentially life-saving care and withholding necessary medicine—is abhorrent. Delaney Hall must be immediately closed and the Trump administration must cease their cruel, chaotic, and deeply inhumane immigration policies.

I saw it with my own eyes: moldy food. People needing immediate medical attention who can’t see a doctor for over a week or who can’t get their medicine. The fact is that the Trump Administration can't get their story straight about what's going on. Delaney Hall should be closed NOW.

ICE at Delaney Hall are attacking protesters and pepper spraying a US Senator. Enough. NJ needs to fight back. I'm sponsoring the budget resolution to boost funding for the Detention, Deportation, Defense Initiative & directly support the innocent people trapped in Delaney Hall.

This cruelty and inhumanity must end NOW.

It's time to put people over profits. FREE DELANEY HALL. FREE THEM ALL.

When I was at Delaney Hall this week, I heard firsthand about the cruel and inhumane reality inside. One detainee showed me horrific infected blisters on his back from scalding shower water. Another is forced to perform 40 haircuts a day, earning a measly $4 for hours of labor. These reports today of chemical gas, threats, and violent retaliation against detainees on a hunger and labor strike are deeply troubling. @ICEgov and GEO Group cannot be allowed to hide behind a wall of secrecy and abuse, and they must end this unlawful inhumane treatment immediately.  And that's not all: Many of the detainees I met with were pursuing lawful pathways, pay taxes, and are illegally being detained by @DHSGov. These detainees must be released immediately. I will keep returning for oversight visits until they are, and my office will continue to demand full transparency and absolute accountability.

SHUT DOWN DELANEY HALL NOW. SHUT THEM ALL DOWN.

You haven't been to Delaney Hall and it shows.

I returned to Delaney Hall today with @RepMenendez and @FrankPallone after disturbing reports that detainees were being beaten. We confirmed that four people were taken to the hospital. The inhumane conditions inside Delaney Hall must end. It is time to shut this facility down.

Instead of protecting Americans, Trump’s cruelty and chaos is allowing corporations to profit off of people’s pain. We must close Delaney Hall.

🚨I’m back at Delaney Hall, where I just heard EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS from detainees. My concern is that hunger strikers are being retaliated against, all because they were advocating for better food, access to basic medical care, and judicial hearings. Four detainees were taken to the hospital. People are being transferred and having their hearings delayed because they’re speaking about how horribly this facility treats them. Delaney Hall is a disgrace to our country. It must close NOW.

At Delaney Hall I met with a woman who was taken from her newborn baby, an American, who was not getting the proper medical care she needed. This for-profit facility and Trump’s cruelty is a moral stain on our community and nation.