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Bearing Witness to New Jersey’s Contentious Immigrant Detention Center

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MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D- NJ), Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University Eddie Glaude, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D-NJ)

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0:00.0

Hey, good morning to you. It is Sunday, May 31st. I'm Ali Valshi, and I hope you had a better Saturday night than this one.

0:15.0

But there is a clash going on in front of us between protesters. By the way, there were very, very few protesters.

0:21.2

We pulled out of this scene probably 15 minutes ago,

0:24.6

and I would say that there were a few dozen people left

0:27.5

and probably a few dozen police.

0:29.7

And then all of a sudden we saw dozens and dozens of police.

0:32.9

The police presence here is remarkable.

0:36.8

That's where I was last night. Newark, New Jersey, outside a windowless

0:41.0

warehouse called Delaney Hall, a 1,000-bed immigration detention facility owned and operated by the

0:47.2

for-profit prison company, Geo Group, tucked among the shipping containers and industrial buildings

0:52.6

near Newark Airport.

0:58.3

There are no homes here, there are no restaurants, just warehouses, and one of those warehouses now holds human beings.

1:01.4

Yesterday afternoon, after watching the tension between anti-ice protesters and authorities

1:06.0

escalate all week and watching the line of who counts as authority shift from federal ice agents to

1:12.6

New Jersey State Police and then to Newark and Belleville cops, my team and I decided that I

1:18.5

should go and see it for myself and for you. Because at this point, that's about the only way

1:25.1

anyone on the outside is going to find out what's happening inside

1:29.0

Delaney the allegations are that people are being mistreated they're not eating some in cases are

1:36.6

on hunger strikes there are in need of medical condition there are elderly people than young

1:41.3

people in there again very hard to get information.

1:52.5

So here's how we got to where we are. On May 9th of last year, Newark, Newark, showed up at Delaney Hall with three members of New Jersey's federal congressional delegation,

1:57.6

Representatives La Monica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rob Menendez for a congressional

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