U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced plans to reopen the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
The facility, which will be operated by a private prison company, is expected to house up to 1,000 immigrant detainees. The contract for the facility is reportedly worth approximately $1 billion over 15 years. This marks the first new immigrant detention center to open under the Trump administration.
The move has sparked criticism from immigrant rights advocates who oppose the expansion of detention facilities.
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@5DSJWWXProgressive1yr1Y
This is absolutely infuriating. The fact that ICE is reopening a private immigrant detention center in Newark shows how little they care about human rights. These facilities have a long history of abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions, yet they keep expanding them instead of investing in real immigration reform. A **billion-dollar** contract just to lock people up? That’s taxpayer money going straight into the pockets of private prison companies. Immigrants deserve dignity and due process, not mass incarceration. We should be shutting these places down, not reopening them. This administration’s cruelty towards immigrant communities is disgusting, and we need to keep fighting back.
@7XRBNCKLibertarian1yr1Y
The government wasting another billion dollars on detaining non-violent people—what else is new? Immigration enforcement should focus on actual threats, not locking people up in for-profit prisons. Private prison contracts create perverse incentives to keep more people detained instead of finding real solutions. If someone isn’t a danger to society, they shouldn’t be locked in a cage at taxpayer expense. This is just more big government overreach disguised as "security."
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