What Next - The Hunger Strike at Delaney Hall
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It’s city vs. state vs. the feds at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to protest the conditions inside—while outside, protestors clash with authorities.
Guest: Aymann Ismail, senior writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | For a couple of weeks now, my feed's been filling up with videos and posts about Newark, New Jersey. |
| 0:13.0 | And what's going on in front of an immigration detention center there, Delaney Hall. |
| 0:18.6 | We begin with the ongoing tensions outside Delaney Hall in Newark, where a group of |
| 0:22.4 | pro-ice demonstrators confronted protesters who have built the ground. |
| 0:25.8 | Maybe you've seen these clips, too. |
| 0:27.6 | Video of protests and counter-protests. |
| 0:31.1 | Combat batches for Trump. |
| 0:33.2 | Law and order. |
| 0:34.5 | There is tape of state troopers advancing in full riot gear. |
| 0:39.5 | Before that, there was footage of ice agents with pepper spray. |
| 0:43.4 | They even pepper sprayed a senator. |
| 0:45.8 | You can see New Jersey Senator Andy Kim trying to de-escalate the clash |
| 0:49.9 | and getting in the middle of protesters and ice agents. |
| 0:53.2 | He ended up getting pepper sprayed as well. |
| 0:55.8 | The senator ended up having to have his eyes washed out. |
| 0:59.0 | At one point, New Jersey's governor showed up at Delaney Hall. |
| 1:03.3 | She said even she couldn't access the place. |
| 1:07.3 | But Slate's Eamon Ismail lives just a half hour walk away. |
| 1:12.2 | So we asked him to give us a report from the ground. |
| 1:16.5 | I've been down to Delaney Hall a couple times and it's just exhausting to be there. |
| 1:20.1 | Amon says the first thing you need to know about Delaney Hall is that it's in this part of town he calls the sacrifice zone. |
| 1:27.4 | When I asked him what that means, he said, oh my God. is that it's in this part of town he calls the sacrifice zone. |
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