Delaney Hall

We're going to be making sure that we hold these folks accountable and also, you know, demand justice for so many.

You know, Jacob, I had A young woman named Ariana, 18 year old high school student who missed her prom, missed her high school graduation and had to spend the month of July taking triple classes to graduate, who should not have been detained in Delaney Hall at all.

I had John Wilson Brutus, who went into Delaney Hall 24 hours for just 24 hours and came out in a body bag.

These are the things that I have been, you know, dealing with in my district that the people of my district have been, you know, suppressed with.

And it's awful.

Ultimately, in the middle of the crackdown, you went to do exactly that.

And you're now facing charges.

Just to remind people, you went to Delaney Hall in May of 2025.

And they aren't getting the love they should because, you know, all eyes are on ICE protesters right now.

But shout out to the Michigan 8, people who are now being investigated for the protest at Delaney Hall in Newark.

and people who are still being charged for the protest at Cop City in Atlanta, and also the Spokane Three, who are now serving a sentence for the same charge that we've been accused of, which is conspiracy to impede.

Okay, so they've already been charged and sentenced or are in jail.

We are now in court with them to subpoena health records.

We've launched a civil rights investigation into Delaney Hall because several people have died in Delaney Hall.

So at every turn, we are making sure we are protecting people and holding ICE accountable.

It's not easy because there's so much federal power in this area, but we have expanded state power here to protect people.

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Martin Soto, a Peruvian man thrown into solitary confinement after organizing a hunger and labor strike inside the notorious for-profit ICE detention facility Delaney Hall, was released from New Jersey's Elizabeth Detention Center.

Soto came to the United States in 2024 and was pursuing asylum.

He was detained by federal agents in February while buying diapers for his two young children.

Though he has no criminal record, he spent eight consecutive months in ICE detention, including several months in solitary confinement, retribution, his wife Gabriela said, for his role as an

organizer.

Gabriela Soto organized a series of protests outside Delaney Hall in May as her husband worked to improve conditions inside.

On May 22nd, a group of over 300 detained immigrants, including Martin, announced a two-week hunger and labor strike inside the for-profit detention facility, demanding freedom and due process, as well as a meeting with the governor and an end to coercive pressure to self-deport.

But then she got convicted this year of running a sex cult and of taking advantage of workers of her company.

And she's the one who the warden of the detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, Delaney Hall, that warden is the one who uses Nicole Day-Done's kind of teaching philosophies for guards and prisons, etc., And Carlos Watson, who was found guilty of fraud, but then got pardoned by Donald Trump, because convicted felon Donald Trump gives out pardons like they're candy.

I also want to kind of bring to your attention as well, the power of civil cases.

Now criminal cases, of course, we know we can appreciate, you know, going to prison.

It's certainly the only possible facility in that area, Brian.

The next closest would be Delaney Hall, which is in Newark.

Going back to what ICE was caught doing by the activists and then admitted doing, Um, they've been doing a, um, a number of raids up in this part of North Jersey, particularly in, um, uh, towns with heavy, uh, uh, high, high Latino populations like Dover.

Um, New Jersey, which is about a five-minute drive from the Roxbury site.

They're throwing concrete bricks.

And... you know, I mean like my security guard had to brandish his firearm and he ended up getting hit with a brick in the head and he was bleeding and I was pulled into Delaney Hall by HSI.

And, you know, at this time they're saying Delaney Hall is a concentration camp.

This is

Rutgers, Newark?

No, I

mean, how did that end in that interaction?

Well, we went into Delaney Hall and then we went out the back and we evaded that.

And

this is the same thing to keep in mind around stuff like Dealey Plaza and Delaney Hall and Alligator Alcatraz.

and others that have been happening.

And also a reminder that this is the type of shit that I think Donald Trump himself has said that he wants to bring back.