Delaney Hall is the name of the federal facility located in Newark, where a week of constant protests have included violent clashes, numerous arrests, and even an illegal roadblock to stop traffic from entering and existing.
According to protest organizers, conditions inside the facility are so bad the detained illegals have gone on a hunger strike to demand better food and access to drinking water.
One source of those claims is Indivisible, the communist group behind the nationwide “No Kings” protests. An email to Indivisible supporters, sent this week and viewed by AFN, described “unbearable, inhumane conditions” that forced the desperate detainees to engage in a hunger strike to call attention to their dire situation.
Those claims contrast greatly with Markwayne Mullin, the new Department of Homeland Security secretary. “There is NO hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions,” Mullin stated in an X post
Instead, Mullin wrote, all detainees are getting three meals a day, decent bedding, and access to shower facilities. The claims of poor food comes from a few detainees demanding “ethnic” food choices, he has said, a demand that was turned down.
“They can go back to their country and get whatever food they want. This isn’t Holiday Inn,” Mullin bluntly said.
Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says no one should believe this is a grassroots protest with locals.
“These are political opportunists,” he warned, “who are trying to take advantage of some people's legitimate concerns.”
Unaware of the Indivisible email, Mehlman told AFN there are deep-pocketed leftist groups that throw “gasoline on the fire” and reap the benefits from angry leftists who believe what they’re told.
In fact, the Indivisible email describes the violent protesters as “peaceful” and the surrounded ICE agents as pepper-spraying thugs.
That claim is an audacious one to make considering the army of iPhones are recording what is happening there, such as the illegal street roadblock. In one telling recording, a civilian truck driver was filmed angrily confronting protesters when he wasn’t allowed to get past their street roadblock to get home.
“If I hit one of y’all, I go to jail, right?” he told protesters. “What’s wrong with y’all, man?”
Another video recording outside the facility, by independent journalist Nick Sortor, includes a protester telling a masked ICE agent “I have your face!” and “your whole [expletive] family is dead!”
