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OGBuzz

(752 posts)
Tue May 26, 2026, 07:10 AM May 26

Mikie Sherrill is denied access to an ICE black site operating inside her state.

Delaney Hall in Newark is a privately owned immigration detention facility, paid for by taxpayers, with apparently zero oversight. How is this even possible in the USA?

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no_hypocrisy

(55,523 posts)
1. Did ICE think that she was going to walk about with scores of detainees?
Tue May 26, 2026, 07:15 AM
May 26

Or just worried about accurate reporting about what's going on inside?

Or maybe she'd find Tom Kean, Jr. inside Delaney . . . .

Scrivener7

(60,154 posts)
3. Let's never forget about the "blue butterfly room" in the Dilly center in Texas.
Tue May 26, 2026, 08:09 AM
May 26

It's where they put the young women and older girls. It's a place no one but the guards have access to and for which there is no oversight too.

We all know what is going on in there. And if it's happening there, it's happening in other centers too.

My family friend who was taken, a 19 year old boy, was held for two months before he was deported. He was taken in the clothing he was wearing in an emergency room after a head injury sustained from playing a college sport. He received no further medical intervention after he was taken. In the two months before he was deported, he was given a sweatshirt but no other clothing. He was moved from center to center without any explanation. He wore the same clothes for 2 months. The food was also scarce.

This is America today.

edhopper

(37,561 posts)
4. She has every right
Tue May 26, 2026, 08:30 AM
May 26

to go back with a hundred State Troopers in full riot gear. If she thinks there is illegal activity in her State, she canmove on it. It's time to stop backing down from the fascists.

OGBuzz

(752 posts)
6. We see what these mercenaries are doing out in the open in Minnesota and elsewhere,
Tue May 26, 2026, 08:53 AM
May 26

I can't imagine what they're doing behind closed doors.

GiqueCee

(4,893 posts)
10. I would think...
Tue May 26, 2026, 09:37 AM
May 26

... that she could call up a State Police Swat Team and then dare the malignant shitstains to defy her again. Now THAT is something I would pay to see!
As long as no one challenges these bastards, they're gonna keep doing it. Sherrill should slap 'em down hard, and say, "Okay, who's next?"

wolfie001

(8,065 posts)
12. republiCON CONCENTRATION CAMP
Tue May 26, 2026, 10:04 AM
May 26

They cried about this while they were not in power. christo-fascism in real life. Pigs.

peggysue2

(12,624 posts)
18. Atwood was amazingly prescient
Tue May 26, 2026, 02:03 PM
May 26

I recall reading the book when it was first published. I enjoyed the read but thought it was 'out there,' even for speculative fiction.

I was 100% wrong. Atwood saw the debacle coming.

OGBuzz

(752 posts)
19. The only thing she got wrong was the sterility but everything else today is devolving into a Gilead.
Tue May 26, 2026, 02:23 PM
May 26

The book is amazing and the series is worth checking out.

Ars Longa

(604 posts)
16. Gov. Sherrill should get Shumer&Jeffries, BOTH Senators (Booker/Kim), and all Dem Reps from
Tue May 26, 2026, 11:55 AM
May 26

NJ, along with NJ Legislature heads, a a Judicial Warrant, Armed State Marshalls
and a big film crew, go back, and F**king DEMAND entrance NOW!!

Put THEIR backs up against the wall!!!

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