06/01/2026
Last week several hundred people being detained at Delaney Hall, an ICE facility outside of Newark, New Jersey, went on a hunger and labor strike, placing their health and safety at risk to protest and expose the inhumane conditions they are being forced to live under, including expired food and lack of medical supplies and medical attention.
Hunger strikers are courageously demanding:
- Release of all those detained, starting first with the elderly, young, pregnant, and sick
- Improved food, treatment, and attorney access
Instead of listening to their pleas, detention officials are retaliating, denying people video calls, taking away visitation, cutting commissary, and transferring some hunger strikers to another facility to keep them from organizing. Most recently, hunger strikers were targeted and violently beaten in their unit. The condition and whereabouts of many are unknown, even to their loved ones.
All of this is happening as Congress inches closer to voting to give ICE an additional $72 billion dollars to fuel Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Delaney is an example of how ICE will continue using our tax dollars to violate the inherent dignity of our immigrant beloveds and put local communities in danger across the country. There is no moral justification for a budget that deepens this damage.
As people of faith, we are with all those who are experiencing abuses at the hands of the Trump administration and continue to call to defund ICE. Congress must not give DHS one more dollar.
Please contact your representatives now: https://uusj.salsalabs.org/iat_apr2026_reconciliation/index.html
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