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Lawsuits Claim Cruel Conditions At Delaney Hall

June 6, 2026 Jose Pagliery, Not Us. , , , ,
Newark, N.J. — A woman says in court papers that guards starved her for five days straight. A man claims “conditions violate basic standards of human dignity.” And several plead for help as the drinking water tastes like “raw sewage.” The mistreatment of immigrant detainees that has led to daily protests outside a privately-run ICE jail in New Jersey is laid bare in lawsuits describing deplorable conditions as well as first-hand accounts of wretched treatment some believe is intentionally cruel. NOTUS visited the site on Thursday just as the Delaney Hall detention facility released Emanuel Rodrigues, a Brazilian man with a rare life-threatening medical condition, who spent what he says were 130 excruciating days in solitary confinement — labeled “medical isolation” by officials.

Around 500 People Are On Hunger Strike At Five ICE Detention Centers

May 31, 2026  Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Erwin Recinos, LA Taco. , , ,
It started with one man at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico; a Cuban immigrant named Rogelio Bolufe, who has been in ICE detention since last August. Around April 28, he raised concerns about conditions at the facility and has since gone on hunger strike. Bolufe mobilized dozens of fellow detainees to protest about legal library access, water quality, tablets, and what he alleges were constitutional abuses. Bolufe says that on May 5, he was removed from his cell and transferred to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's field office in Albuquerque, then transferred to Camp East Montana in Fort Bliss, Texas, then to Alabama, then to Mesa, Arizona, and lastly to a detention facility in Washington.

‘We Demand Freedom’: Immigrants On Strike In New Jersey Prison

May 31, 2026 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. , , ,
On a patch of sidewalk on a busy industrial corridor in Newark, federal agents with rifles, metal batons, flak vests, and balaclavas faced off against unarmed activists with cardboard signs and a bullhorn. Detained workers could be heard on the soccer field behind the prison walls, shouting in Spanish: “¡Libertad!” (Freedom!) Since May 22, 300 of them are on a work stoppage and hunger strike. Over video chat, one worker told the crowd outside that they had stopped eating and working for as little as $1 an hour (or no pay at all) to demand an improvement in their living conditions. 

Delaney Hall ICE Detainees Take Aim At GEO Group’s Bottom Line

May 29, 2026 Whitney Curry Wimbish, American Prospect. , , , ,
GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, runs on immigrant labor. Detainees cook, clean, and repair the facility for as little as $1 a day and sometimes for nothing at all. So when 300 migrants imprisoned in Delaney Hall went on a hunger and labor strike last Friday over conditions they likened to physical and mental torture, they were taking aim at GEO Group’s bottom line. Executives at the for-profit public corporation can keep their overhead low and their profits high by hiring as few employees as possible and shifting essential jobs to people who have no choice but to do them for free.

Making America Whiter Again: White Supremacy In Action

May 28, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 in large part because of this statement about immigration that he made when he announced his presidential campaign. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. …They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Aside from adding as an afterthought that not every immigrant is a criminal, Trump was clearly speaking up in defense of white supremacy and the United States settler project which has as a core belief that this country must be dominated by white people.

Protesters Confront ICE In Support Of Hunger And Labor Strike

May 27, 2026 Samuel Karlin and Emma Lee, Left Voice. , , , , , ,
More than 300 people locked inside of Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, have been on hunger and labor strike since Friday demanding their freedom. The strike follows the release of an open letter drawing attention to the inhumane conditions inside the 1,000-bed facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group. Delaney Hall was reopened under Trump’s second term as part of his administration’s war on immigrants, despite the protests of the local community. The inhumane conditions at the facility, which caused the death of Haitian immigrant Jean Wilson Brutus late last year, include poor nutrition and medical treatment — particularly for children and people with disabilities — and lack of translation services.

Truckers Say ‘Racism’ Behind Trump Administration’s License Restrictions

May 27, 2026 Michael Sainato, The Guardian. , , , ,
Nearly 200,000 US truck drivers are at risk of losing their commercial driver’s licenses after the US Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a new rule that disqualifies many foreign-born truck drivers from getting or renewing their licenses. Tens of thousands of immigrant drivers are stuck in a limbo after the rule took effect in March, and lawsuits challenging the rule are still being reviewed by federal courts. The rule restricts licenses to immigrants who have specific employment authorization statuses, disqualifying those with other authorizations, including asylum seekers, refugees and those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) status.

Management Charged Them $100 A Week To Work

May 9, 2026 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. , , ,
When Evelyn began work at New Bedford, Massachusetts, seafood processing center Marder Trawling, she learned of an unusual condition of employment: She’d need to quietly pay her manager $100 per week for the privilege of working, she said. “I didn’t have work, and I have kids,” she said. “So I told him, ‘All right,’ just to have a job. “There were times I didn’t have money for rent, bills, or food for my kids,” she told Labor Notes, but her manager was happy to oblige: she could skip a week’s payment, and owe $200 the next week. Petronila, another former Marder worker, described a similar experience.

How States Import Labor To Delegitimize Revolt

March 25, 2026 Ritaj Ibrahim, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Migration policies do not solely determine how a state receives foreign workers. They also shape how labor is structured, how different rights are assigned, and how states react to the demands of labor. A combination of temporary visas, employer-sponsored immigration, rotation contracts, and restrictions on permanent residency can construct a labor system that normalizes political exclusion. The Gulf Cooperation Council states, particularly the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar, are extreme cases of this phenomenon. In these countries, a large number of the economically active population are migrants, and they perform the majority of the productive work, yet are still politically excluded.

In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike For the First Time In 40 Years

March 22, 2026 Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu, Labor Notes. , , , , ,
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.

The US Warehousing Of Immigrants

February 10, 2026 Juventud Rebelde, Resumen English. , , , ,
The Trump administration has a perverse and degrading plan that has been in effect since last year and will expand even further in 2026. It is being implemented by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): converting commercial warehouses into detention centers, which will join those already established on military bases until they cover the entire territory of the United States. Reports from various US media outlets are explicit: ICE has already purchased, or is in the process of acquiring, a dozen commercial buildings or department stores since December, which would further increase the 212 immigrant detention centers it had at the beginning of 2026.

How To Debunk Anti-Immigrant Myths At Work

February 4, 2026 Natascha Elena Uhlmann, Labor Notes. , , ,
Anti-immigrant myths flood our airwaves. They dominate news cycles and our online feeds. And now they’re amplified from the highest halls of power. President Donald Trump has asserted, for example, that millions of immigrants came to the U.S. “from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums,” a claim one expert found “too ridiculous to dignify.” The lies spread like wildfire. Corrections, if they’re issued at all, fade into the background. Trump’s baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, prompted bomb threats against Springfield schools.

Immigrant Children Lead Uprising At Texas Detention Center

January 27, 2026 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , ,
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, which closed in 2024 but was reopened by the Trump administration this year to detain immigrant families. On Saturday, facility personnel abruptly ordered immigration attorneys who were present to leave, saying “an incident” had taken place.

Somali Business Owners Spearhead Minnesota Shutdown Against ICE

January 23, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
“We are not backing down. We’re here to stay and we’re here to fight,” said Kadija, a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis. Kadija is one of hundreds of small business owners participating in what is rapidly developing into a historic, multi-sector general strike in Minnesota on January 23. Zahra Abdullah, owner of the Somaliweyn Community Center in Minneapolis, told Peoples Dispatch that her community is fully committed to driving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of the state. “We just want to get in the fight and keep fighting and send a message that we are not afraid,” Abdullah said.

Immigration Agents Are Using Banned Moves That Cut Off Breathing

January 20, 2026 Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, ProPublica. , , , ,
Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns. An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed; she then appeared to pass out. An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young father who refused to be separated from his wife and 1-year-old daughter. The man’s eyes rolled back in his head and he started convulsing.
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