‘Let Us Try To Stop This Legislation’: Senator Ties Chaos At Delaney Hall To Funding Bill
Trump is looking for $70 billion more for ICE, CBP
Anyone in New Jersey or elsewhere who doesn’t like what they’re seeing inside or outside of Delaney Hall in New Jersey needs to shift their attention this week to Capitol Hill.
That’s the message from Sen Andy Kim, the New Jersey Democrat who himself was caught in a tear gas attack by federal agents outside of the privately run immigration detention facility in Newark, NJ, which has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s mass deportation crackdown.
Delaney Hall has attracted demonstrations outside, while detainees inside reportedly have been on a hunger strike to protest abhorrent conditions, including food infested with maggots.
Delaney Hall holds about 800 detainees and is operated by the private company, GEO Group.
“GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that’s cutting into their profits,” Kim said in a TV interview over the weekend.
While this situation is unfolding in the Garden State, Donald Trump has been pushing Republicans on Capitol Hill final approval to legislation to fund US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) programs without any restrictions or reforms even after the killings earlier this year of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
That’s where Kim’s attention is now that he has returned to Washington DC.
“Senate Republicans are pushing forward on an effort that would give upwards of $60 to $70 billion for ICE and CBP,” the senator said in an online video message. “Without any accountability, without any reforms since Minnesota and the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It has to stop.”
Kim said he will oppose this legislation.
“If people are concerned about what’s going on at Delaney Hall, let us try to stop this legislation,” he added.
View a clip of Kim talking about the funding bill here:
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