May 19, 2026, 2:12 pm
McIver Returns to Delaney Hall in light of Detainee “S.O.S.” Letter
NEWARK, NJ —Yesterday, Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) returned to the ICE detention center at Delaney Hall to investigate claims made in a recent open letter from detainees. The congresswoman conducted an unannounced oversight visit with Reps. Rob Menendez (NJ-07) and Analilia Mejia (NJ-11), where she observed the conditions at the facility and spoke to detainees who gave additional details that built upon claims of abuse detailed in the letter. In a press conference following the visit, McIver, Menendez, and Mejia reported on the conditions. Excerpts of the press conference can be found here.
“Until the abuses end and they abolish ICE, I’m going to continue to show up here and do my job,” said McIver. “In an act of real bravery and obvious desperation, detainees wrote a letter about the conditions that they are facing here at Delaney Hall. Not enough food, no medical care, and conditions they call torture—conditions any of us would recognize as torture. After coming out of the facility, I can tell you that everything in the letter is 100% correct. ICE and DHS will lie and lie because the only thing that they care about is getting caught—which is why we do these unannounced oversight visits.”
“What we said over a year ago at Delaney Hall was that no one is safe in Trump’s America,” said Menendez. “We see that with every single visit when we see pastors, mothers, and disabled individuals being held here instead of the criminals the Trump Administration claimed it was targeting. All while ICE continues to try to break these people and steal their humanity. We won’t let them do this in the dark, and we will continue to shine light onto what is going on behind closed doors until we shut this facility down ...
https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/conditions-any-of-us-would-recognize-as-torture/
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