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Hearing “False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center”
house Oversight Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 73 transcript matches
VAN DREW, JEFFERSON "from some local media. Delaney Hall menu options, Delaney Hall's menu options is better than many Jersey school lunch choices. Fajitas, stir fry, barbecue chicken, see the food options provided to Delaney Hall. Inspectors finally got into the kitchen at Isis Delaney Hall. Delaney Hall snack purchases cast"
Hearing H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subcommittee Assignments
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
NADLER, JERROLD "Despite the best efforts of this administration to deny access to these facilities, a few months ago, I conducted an oversight visit to Delaney Hall, a privately-owned ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. What I learned there was absolutely shocking and appalling, in particular the medical"
Hearing “A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security”
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript · 9 transcript matches
POU, NELLIE "No, no. I appreciate it. It sounds to me like you're agreeing that you will not be pulling any of the officers from the NORC International Airport so long as the two entities are able to work, and it appears as though that there is cooperation being held. Very well. Thank you so very much. I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make sure that I get an opportunity to ask the other questions. As you know, last week, I conducted a visit to Delaney Hall. This was an oversight of a rogue facility that should, in my opinion, be shut down. What I witnessed was shocking. Delaney Hall cannot..."
Hearing H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act; H. Res. 1335 – Condemning actors seeking to...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026 · Transcript · 6 transcript matches
SPEAKER_41 "these immigrant detention centers have completely violated existing detention centers' standards requirements. Reports abound of appalling conditions overcrowding, medical neglect, and inedible food. In GeoGroup's Delaney Hall in New Jersey, the only medical care available for people with cancer is Tylenol. Guards are beating and pepper-spraying immigrants who dare to request better"
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Reports · Sep 12, 2024
Congress has enacted many federal criminal laws covering topics as diverse as drug trafficking, immigration, assault, computer hacking, bribery, and wildlife trafficking, among others. Congress’s...
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Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"from some local media. Delaney Hall menu options, Delaney Hall's menu options is better than many Jersey school lunch choices. Fajitas, stir fry, barbecue chicken, see the food options provided to Delaney Hall. Inspectors finally got into the kitchen at Isis Delaney Hall. Delaney Hall snack purchases cast"
Testimony POU, NELLIE
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"No, no. I appreciate it. It sounds to me like you're agreeing that you will not be pulling any of the officers from the NORC International Airport so long as the two entities are able to work, and it appears as though that there is cooperation being held. Very well. Thank you so very much. I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to make sure that I get an opportunity to ask the other questions. As you know, last week, I conducted a visit to Delaney Hall. This was an oversight of a rogue facility..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Take the food. New Jersey State Health Inspection June 8th found the kitchen sanitary, satisfactory, no evidence of rodents or vermin. The menu accommodates religious diets. The Borders are showed up unannounced and ate the same meal served to detainees every day and stated it was fine. Let's take the history of Delaney Hall. This building operated as an ICE detention site from 2011 to 2017. New Jersey's leaders said nothing. The standards haven't changed. The building hasn't changed. What..."
Testimony SPEAKER_28
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Thank you, Ranking Member Thompson, Secretary Mullen. You called our complaints about facilities like Delaney Hall a hoax and have stated that detainees receive health care, three meals a day, due process, but I will say that from dozens of conversations like my colleagues Poe and MacGyver that I have personally had with detainees and what I've witnessed at Delaney Hall and at the Elizabeth Detention Center, I can say that I am horrified about the conditions that I am seeing, that I have..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"their day before an administrative judge and they want to make it as miserable as possible for people so they self-deport and so I leave it to the judgment of members of the committee whether that's the way that America should be treating people in this situation. Nonetheless um Delaney Hall is a detention facility owned and operated by GEO Group, a private for-profit prison contractor that is a billion dollar government contract to operate this facility for people being held on civil..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Subcommittee will come to order without objection. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Welcome everyone today. Welcome to our hearing on Delaney Hall. I am now, we are now going to pledge allegiance to the flag and we will stand for a moment, continue to stand for a moment of silence for our service members. Please rise. Remain"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank all the witnesses for being here. It's always a labor of love and I know it takes time to get here, time to be here, time to get back, so we do appreciate all of you. We're here today because of a narrative that has been told over and over and over again for weeks. The narrative is that Delaney Hall and by extension all of these detention centers are places of cruelty. It's just not true. That the people working there are starving,..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"to say it now, but when they were in there looked and said in her words, it's a state health inspectors went into the kitchen and found the sanitation and physical condition satisfactory, free of any sign of vermin. This is the state of New Jersey, state health inspectors, very blue state, very Democratic state, sent their health inspectors in from the governor's office and they said everything was good. That's not what they had to say about New Jersey prisons by the way. Despite all of it,..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"the children who lost a loved one to a crime committed by somebody who was in this country illegally. When was the last time Democrats offered those families a hearing room? The people detained at Delaney Hall are not all random innocents. And, you know, let me say this. I mean, for those of us that have sat here through hearings, and you've seen children that will never be okay, and you've seen parents and families that will never be okay because their child was beaten, was raped, was..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"innocents. And, you know, let me say this. I mean, for those of us that have sat here through hearings, and you've seen children that will never be okay, and you've seen parents and families that will never be okay because their child was beaten, was raped, was murdered. There are no words for that. We just got to make sure it doesn't happen, and it's wrong. We knowingly and purposely, not we, but others, let these individuals into our country, and they shouldn't have. And they should be..."
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and they were getting their potato chips and Twinkies and you name whatever else, and maybe it's New Jersey, so they were getting some good New Jersey pizza. I don't know, but they were getting plenty of food. And in fact, during that time of the supposed hunger strikes the population went down 13% in Delaney Hall, but the food intake at the commissary tripled,"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"so that they preserve their so-called American values like shooting and killing American citizens who are peacefully protesting or stuffing hundreds of thousands of people into cages without proper nutrition or medical care. But nevertheless, in the time since our last hearing on this topic, more than 40 people have died while in ICE custody of which 30% have died at a facility run by GEO Group who happens to be the same private detention contractor that operates Delaney Hall. At multiple GEO..."
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"have been conducting oversight themselves. In May of 2025, McIver was participating in a lawful congressional oversight visit at Delaney Hall with the mayor of Newark and other members of"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I'm talking about citizens and otherwise. If the Republicans really wanted to know what was happening at Delaney Hall or any other detention facility, they would push for unannounced"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"because they control the agenda. They've called this hearing and we've been responding to them. The ambiguous title of today's hearing, False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center, naturally invites the question of whether the majority is seeking to debunk false narratives or entrench false narratives. One clue is the title does not refer to facts at all. Another is that the majority has neither organized a committee visit to Delaney Hall, which we easily..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Congress. That doesn't sound much like an intensive fact-based investigation to me. ICE and Homeland Security have been concocting false narratives to mask the inhumane conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention facilities since Stephen Miller and Donald Trump's arrests a day quota onslaught against American communities and immigrants. An entire ecosystem of lies and corruption now governs at ICE and DHS where hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent by Kristi Noem on lavish..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"excoriated in court for their lawlessness and their betrayal of the legal profession but with no apparent effect on their behavior. American citizens like the people in this room have been held illegally for weeks by ICE. American citizens have been beaten, bloodied, and killed simply for exercising their first amendment and their second amendment rights in a way disfavored by the masked paramilitary forces of ICE. The good chairman says hey if you don't like the wonderful accommodations at..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"on July 21st in the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey Marlon Andres Torres Gomez versus Luis Soto warden Delaney Hall. This is a case where a detainee of the deluxe accommodations got an agreement to get out on May"
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"um May 12th while he was in custody and an immigration judge ordered that his self-deportation be allowed and then it was set for June the 10th and guess what he had a plane ticket, he had an agreement with ICE, he had an agreement with Delaney Hall, and then they blocked him from leaving the country at the airport brought him back and said he was now in the custody of ICE all over again. Now this district court opinion strikes that down and says it's an absolute violation of habeas corpus in..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"completely. Detainees say the water is foul tasting and undrinkable people were forced to sleep on floors due to overcrowding and as billions of dollars of taxpayer money are pocketed by corporations in lavish inside contracts detainees experience poor ventilation extreme cold in winter scalding showers physical abuse by guards and a shortage of basic necessities. The medical conditions of detainees are alarming Rita Lynn Harris a detainee with glaucoma anemia high blood a detainee with..."
Testimony RASKIN, JAMIE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"worst of the worst. DHS agents are arresting kindergartners, daycare teachers, and parents dropping off children at school. Roving gangs of officials are abducting children from their beds in the middle of the night or using them as bait in order to catch and arrest their frantic parents. DHS is rounding up workers with lawful status, working at small businesses as roofers, plumbers, landscapers, farmhands, and nurses. They're arresting refugees who threw stringent vetting to come here and..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"I spent more than three decades in the U.S. Army, including as a non-commissioned officer in charge of a theater internment facility in Camp Cropper, Baghdad. I ran a detention facility in a war zone. So when I tell you how a place like Delaney Hall actually works, I'm not theorizing. I'm describing what I did for a living, the views that I offer on my own, and they are not of ICE. Let me start with what the critics have been driving this hearing will not say out loud. Delaney Hall runs under..."
Testimony MR. SCOTT MECHKOWSKI
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The facts are all available to you. They're written down. Congress can conduct oversight reveal the real truth. Instead of manufacturing hoaxes for partisan gain, the record will not support that the allegations that brought us here today. And I'll start with the hunger strike. DHS reported that commissary sales at Delaney Hall nearly tripled while it was supposedly underway from $11,500 the week before May 26th to more than $30,000 the week before January 1st. People who are starving..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. It is a privilege to be here. My name is Art Del Cueto. I spent my career on the front lines of immigration enforcement and also served as a corrections officer in the state of Arizona. I now am a border security advisor for the Federation for American Immigration Reform and I'm here today because what is happening at Delaney Hall is part of something much larger and far..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"years the Biden administration operated a deliberate anti-border policy enabling millions of illegal aliens to enter our country. Between fiscal year 2021 and 2024 CBP encountered more than 170,000 illegal aliens with criminal warrants or convictions at our borders. On top of that nearly 2,000 suspected terrorists and over 1.7 million special interest aliens from from countries posing potential national risks were encountered. Illegal aliens who should have been detained in facilities like..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"been in detention facilities instead of roaming the streets. And while violent crime is the most visible consequence of illegal immigration it is far from the only one. Illegal immigrants impose considerable costs on every American taxpayer, every American renter and every American worker competing for employment in the sectors most affected by illegal alien labor. Not to mention the enormous strain on our public benefits. The Trump administration is now working to reverse that damage by..."
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"DHS has documented a hundred one thousand three hundred percent increase in assaults on ICE agents, thirty two hundred percent increase in vehicular attacks and eight thousand percent increase in death threats. Why are these radical activists and politicians targeting Delaney Hall and other detention facilities? It's simple. Detention works. More illegal aliens are opting for voluntary departure and border crossings have dropped dramatically since President Trump took over office. Without..."
Testimony ANDREW ARTHUR
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Chairman Van Drew, Ranking Member Crockett, Ranking Member Raskin, Mr. Johnson, thank you for inviting me here today. First a confession, I've never been to Delaney Hall and I've never toured the facility to assess any of the allegations that have been made about it. That said, for more than eight years, including six as a staffer for this committee, I exercised oversight jurisdiction over ICE detention facilities and visited"
Testimony ANDREW ARTHUR
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The Third Circuit subsequently concluded that this law, as applied to ICE's Elizabeth detention facility, was an improper attempt to, quote, dictate the manner in which the federal immigration function is carried out, close quote, in a violation of the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity. Such efforts have continued, however, and shortly after GEO announced it would be opening The facility and then the city sued GEO, complaining Delaney Hall didn't receive proper permits and local officials..."
Testimony ANDREW ARTHUR
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Nonetheless, in June, the state sued GEO, contending health inspectors had been denied, quote, full access, close quote, to Delaney Hall when they arrived in response to conditions there. In response, DOJ complained about the politicization of the issue while also contending ICE"
Testimony MR. AMOL SINHA
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"His three-year-old daughter nearby is still in her bluey pajamas. These killings happened in broad daylight, in front of witnesses, with cell phone cameras rolling. And this is what happens when the whole country is watching. What confidence can we possibly have behind the locked doors of a facility like Delaney Hall? I want to address the premise of this hearing directly. Its title suggests that reports of maltreatment at Delaney Hall are a false narrative. The people detained at Delaney Hall..."
Testimony MR. AMOL SINHA
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"More than 50 people have died in ICE custody under this administration, the deadliest period on record. John Wilson Brutus died in ICE custody after one day of being detained at Delaney Hall. ICE is sending a chilling message to every family in New Jersey and across the"
Testimony MR. AMOL SINHA
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"and claims that who's detained at facility like Delaney Hall are exactly those folks. In fact, this administration's own data undercuts that false narrative. Over 70% of the people held at Delaney Hall have no criminal history whatsoever. We're spending billions of taxpayer dollars detaining people who pose no threat to the public while GEO Group pockets over $60 million a year from Delaney Hall alone. Delaney Hall is not an outlier. A people who participated in the hunger strike at Delaney..."
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And this hearing is entitled False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center. That was the topic of the discussion today. What we got from Mr. Arthur is a"
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And then not a single witness in here has testified that it's false that what's happening at Delaney Hall are overcrowded cells crammed with inmates. Not a single Republican witness refuted that. Not a single Republican witness commented about the denial of access to toilets and clean drinking water at Delaney Hall. Nobody talked about food being adulterated and unedible at Delaney"
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And so the only person who testified about that was Mr. Sinhai, and he told us of the horrors of what's going on inside Delaney Hall. And I suspect that the chairman, when he took his"
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"They rolled out the red carpet for him They rolled out the red carpet for him and showed him exactly what they wanted him to see and then probably fed him a steak dinner afterwards with a glass of champagne and a cigar. And so today he is here to tell you about what's going on at Delaney Hall. But I would, I would exclaim to you that perhaps you should call my colleague LaMonica McGyver, who is sitting here with us today, about six or seven months pregnant, she and her husband expecting their..."
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Have you, yes or no? And when's the last time you visited Delaney Hall? Yeah, that's been what? Almost 10 years ago. What about you, Mr. Del Sueto? When's the last time you visited Delaney"
Testimony MR. ART DEL CUETO
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Del Cueto, sir. I have not visited Delaney Hall. No, sir, but I have been at various different immigration facilities that have detained"
Testimony JOHNSON, HENRY C. "HANK"
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"You have no personal knowledge upon which to reasonably conclude that the reports about cruel and inhumane and unusual or not unusual at Trump ICE facilities, you have no personal knowledge upon which you can reasonably conclude that what Mr. Sinha has reported about the conditions at Delaney Hall are true or false, isn't that correct? You've never been to Delaney Hall, though? You've never been to Delaney Hall, though? But you don't know what's going on at Delaney"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"And quite frankly, that's why so many of the problems are in blue jurisdictions. We should have never let these people out. And I also would say Delaney Hall are not just a bunch of nice people. There may be some in there who aren't felons, but there are absolutely felons, drug dealers,"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"Thank you so much. To the best of your knowledge, did any of the protesters at Delaney Hall brutally beat police officers with steel"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"The American people are outraged. They're trying to pretend as if people are just going to Delaney Hall and it's simply because Delaney Hall is just, I don't know, the victim in this particular set of circumstances. because Delaney Hall is just, I don't know, the victim in this particular set of"
Testimony CROCKETT, JASMINE
“False Narratives Surrounding Conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE Deten...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"So here it was, he was an asylum seeker. December 12th, 2025, he ended up dying in Delaney Hall. He had only been in Delaney Hall for one day. So while some may want to pretend as if there's nothing to see, in fact, we should have had a hearing that would have allowed us to get to the bottom of and potentially seek justice and make sure that other people don't die in our custody in an unwarranted and unlawful way. He had only been in Delaney Hall for one day. So while some may want to pretend..."
Testimony THOMPSON, BENNIE G.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Since you were sworn in just over two months ago, detainees at Delaney Hall Detention Facility have been living in squalid conditions and have been beaten and pepper sprayed by"
Testimony THOMPSON, BENNIE G.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Enough is enough. Delaney Hall should be closed. Delaney Hall is just the latest example Delaney Hall is just the latest"
Testimony THOMPSON, BENNIE G.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"These are the very same agencies that killed two Americans in cold blood, took parents from young American citizens out of defending holding detainees in squalor at Delaney Hall. ICE and CBP should not get one penny more of taxpayers' dollars until they are held"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"Peacefully. Delaney Hall, I've had officers bit, hit, scratched. We had one get threatened get threatened they were going to kill him and his family. That's"
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"required to do so. And then they come out of court and they're snatched by your ICE officers. They're arrested. They're sent to Delaney Hall. They're sent to the MDC. They are not the worst of the worst. They have no records. And you know how we have no record? They have no records because those two facilities are low security. They are not allowed to go there. If they have serious criminal. I didn't ask a question. I didn't ask a question. I"
Testimony SPEAKER_06
“A Review of the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the Department of...
house Homeland Security Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"then we have the right to pick them up and deport them. my time. People that's in Delaney Hall, 228 are serious. My time. I would like extra time, please. hear you. Yeah, so on the border wall, first of all, we were on track to have the primary wall done, completed from the Pacific to Gulf of America. This time next year, we have we'll have all contracts out by the end of this month. And we're having great progress. Now the primary wall is not the secondary wall. The primary wall is the first..."
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Despite the best efforts of this administration to deny access to these facilities, a few months ago, I conducted an oversight visit to Delaney Hall, a privately-owned ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. What I learned there was absolutely shocking and appalling, in particular the medical"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"I saw people diagnosed with cancer and denied any treatment. At Delaney Hall and across the country, detainees are being held in squalor in facilities that do not meet basic sanitary needs. As if that weren't bad enough, this legislation would dramatically increase the number"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Mr. Chairman, I don't know what universe some of the gentlemen on the other side inhabit, but a couple of months ago, Mr. Goldman and I inspected Delaney Hall, which is a large facility, a large privately operated ice facility in Newark, New Jersey. What we saw there was"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"They are a shame on this nation. I can't speak for every single facility, but I certainly can speak for Delaney Hall, which is one of the largest facilities, the one that Mr. Goldman and I inspected. That facility is terrible,"
Testimony SPEAKER_03
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Well, just to give you some peace of mind, everything I said was firsthand account as well. I went and visited. I am working with the department to go to Delaney Hall, and I'm going to try to do so with very little notice to see if what you're saying is accurate today. It shouldn't be accurate. Even besides that, I do have to ask, should the American taxpayers be forced with a"
Testimony NADLER, JERROLD
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Same thing here. If someone is held in a facility, for whatever reason, valid or invalid, they should be given adequate medical treatment. And I don't think anybody can quarrel with that. And I would hope that if you tour Delaney Hall, you don't give reasonable notice. You give no notice at all. You have a right as a matter of Congress to do that. I"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"Thank the chairman. So I was in Delaney Hall. I looked at it. I heard all the"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"So let me give you some information. Delaney Hall was nicer, cleaner, better than any facility that the state has, the state of New Jersey, any of the prisons they have, period. And quite frankly, that's under repeated Democratic governors over and over again. In fact, recently, New Jersey just got in trouble for their state"
Testimony VAN DREW, JEFFERSON
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"The physician showed me the prescriptions, showed me the charts, showed me the people who for the first time in their life ever had medical care. Came into Delaney Hall, never really had medical care before. He's found diabetes, found high blood pressure, found just about every condition that you can think of, high"
Testimony GOLDMAN, DANIEL S.
H.R. 9773, Permanent Trump Secure Border Act and Ratification of Subco...
house Judiciary Committee · Jul 21, 2026
"That is what the law is. And so all of those people, not all of them, most of those people at Delaney Hall that I spoke to, I'm sorry, Mr. Van Drew didn't have an interpreter. I was able to stay for two and a half hours and speak to a number of them. Many spoke English. The ones that didn't were translated by other"
Testimony WATSON COLEMAN, BONNIE
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"The officers in Maine didn't have them, so we have no footage of what transpired. Fifty-five people have died, thousands more have suffered from inhumane conditions at facilities that are more akin to internment camps than prisons, including Delaney Hall in my state of New Jersey. It is obvious that ICE's actions have descended our communities into a raging"
Testimony BOOKER, CORY A.
Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be ...
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026
"You directed the arrest of Mayor Raz Baraka of my city of Newark. You weren't at Delaney Hall on May 9th, 2025, when he was arrested. But yes or no, did you have a conversation with Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel ordering him to arrest Mayor"
Testimony SPEAKER_41
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"these immigrant detention centers have completely violated existing detention centers' standards requirements. Reports abound of appalling conditions overcrowding, medical neglect, and inedible food. In GeoGroup's Delaney Hall in New Jersey, the only medical care available for people with cancer is Tylenol. Guards are beating and pepper-spraying immigrants who dare to request better"
Testimony SPEAKER_30
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"And we could be talking about ending, like, making sure that pregnant women and their infants and young children don't go hungry now, or you could be focused on forward-funding ICE and CBP well into the future. Just like, what is everyone thinking here? Leader Jeffries, what impact do we expect to see going forward if Congress doesn't take steps to mitigate the big, ugly bill? So, Mr. Leader, you recently went in person to do oversight at Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center facility in..."
Testimony SPEAKER_32
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"Feel free to defend your position. Ask us any questions about our policy differences. But instead, we're confronted with silence. And the American people deserve better. Delaney Hall is a privately run facility fully funded by ICE. And the conditions there should shock the conscience of every single American. The taxpayer-funded abuse that is occurring in this facility is un-American, it's unpatriotic, and it's unacceptable. It includes the fact that there is woefully inadequate health care..."
Testimony SPEAKER_32
H.R. 8464 – Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act; H.R. 8312 – Fraud Preven...
house Rules Committee · Jun 8, 2026
"who are on the verge of dying because they have stage 3 or stage 4 cancer. And by the way, every single one of these individuals that we interacted with at Delaney Hall, these are law-abiding, nonviolent, in many cases taxpaying entrepreneurs who have small businesses and pending court cases to establish their lawful right to remain in the United States of America or to the Trump administration, it doesn't matter. There was an 18-year-old teenage girl who has been in Delaney Hall now for..."
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
WATSON COLEMAN, BONNIE "The officers in Maine didn't have them, so we have no footage of what transpired. Fifty-five people have died, thousands more have suffered from inhumane conditions at facilities that are more akin to internment camps than prisons, including Delaney Hall in my state of New Jersey. It is obvious that ICE's actions have descended our communities into a raging"
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
senate Judiciary Committee · Jul 15, 2026 · Transcript
BOOKER, CORY A. "You directed the arrest of Mayor Raz Baraka of my city of Newark. You weren't at Delaney Hall on May 9th, 2025, when he was arrested. But yes or no, did you have a conversation with Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel ordering him to arrest Mayor"