A New Jersey immigration detention center on edge. What comes next?
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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Summary
The Delaney Hall Detention Facility has been the site of intense protests since last month, and they’ve become increasingly violent in recent days.
Family members of detainees say a hunger and labor strike has begun inside the prison, over poor living conditions and alleged human rights violations.
To control the tension outside, Newark’s mayor issued an indefinite curfew around the facility.
Mayor Ras Baraka joined NPR to talk about the curfew and where things go from here.
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| 0:00.0 | It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, the chaos outside |
| 0:06.9 | an immigration detention facility in New Jersey. Protesters have been demonstrating outside |
| 0:11.9 | Delaney Hall and Newark for more than a week. New Jersey lawmakers say immigrants held there |
| 0:16.6 | aren't receiving adequate medical care or food and that they lack due process. |
| 0:24.2 | But the protests over those conditions have at times turned violent. |
| 0:27.6 | Immigration and customs enforcement has used pepper spray on the crowd. |
| 0:30.7 | Violent chaotic clashes hurt everyone. |
| 0:32.3 | That's Governor Mikey Sherrill. They put the lives of both protesters and law enforcement in danger. |
| 0:37.0 | They take the focus away from people inside |
| 0:39.6 | Delaney Hall and their families. And they raise the temperature with ice. New Jersey Senator Cory |
| 0:45.1 | Booker visited Delaney Hall last week. He told NPR's morning edition that some of those protesting |
| 0:50.6 | are outside agitators driving focus away from what's happening inside. |
| 0:55.2 | These protests outside of Delaney Hall have been going on for many months. |
| 0:59.3 | But unfortunately right now, there's a lot of folks who are trying to come in and precipitate |
| 1:04.3 | violence to distract from the moral urgency of the crisis inside. |
| 1:08.6 | Consider this. A New Jersey immigration facility |
| 1:11.2 | is the latest hotspot |
| 1:12.7 | for protests against Trump's immigration policy. |
| 1:15.5 | What's happening inside |
| 1:17.0 | and could the situation outside worsen? |
| 1:22.1 | From NPR, I'm Juana Summers. |
| 1:26.5 | Music I'm Juana Summers. |
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