NLG Calls for Support to Delaney Hall Immigrant Hunger Strikers and Anti-ICE Protesters

The National Lawyers Guild calls for support to the hunger strike led by 300 detained immigrants inside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center, in Newark, New Jersey. The GEO Group-run detention center is accused of inhumane conditions, abuse, and lack of oversight into the treatment of the people inside their detention centers.

Immigrant detention center deaths are at an all time high. At least 32 people died inside of ICE facilities since Trump took office in 2025. This does not include the dozens of pregnant people, who have experienced miscarriages within the facilities due to medical neglect, and in some cases disregard. This violence is by design. The current administration has relaxed oversight of these facilities and rarely investigates complaints against them. Departments responsible for looking into abuse at immigrant detention facilities are shut down.

Community members answered the call for solidarity and joined the hunger strikers by protesting outside of the detention center. The state and federal governments' response was to brutalize protesters on the outside and cut the hunger strikers off from the outside world. So far, over 60 people have been arrested. There are reports of individuals being charged with state-level felonies despite contrary assurances from New Jersey officials. Even after several weeks, protests continue, as does the violent reaction by the police.

This is a continuation of the Trump administration's violence against pro-immigrant, anti-ICE protesters, as well as anyone who dares oppose their fascist actions against immigrant communities. The administration has gone after anti-ICE protesters in North Texas, and more recently, three protesters were convicted for conspiracy in Spokane, Washington. ICE is also allegedly collecting information on anti-ICE protesters that it encounters.

The NLG continues our calls to abolish ICE, free all immigrants detained in detention centers, and solidarity with all of those arrested defending the rights of immigrants in the U.S..