FREE THEM ALL, NO IMMIGRANT TRANSFERS!
Statement of the North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America
Friday, June 13, 2025
Newark, NJ
On May 1, GEO Group, a private prison profiteer, illegally opened Delaney Hall in Newark’s toxic chemical corridor. In the short time since, the facility has seen horribly overcrowded conditions, rotten food and foul water served at irregular intervals, arbitrary revocation of visitation hours and lawyer visits, and generally unsafe conditions. This all culminated on the evening of June 12th, with an uprising against the deplorable conditions. This uprising made clear the shoddy construction of the facility, with GEO Group stating that a wall had been destroyed. They have not even been able to account for the people inside, with it being unclear whether some of the unjustly detained immigrants escaped.
The effort to turbocharge the process of criminalizing, abducting, and deporting immigrants is predictably resulting in horrific abuse and terror. The combination of incompetence and cruelty ensures that those caught up in Trump’s terror campaign will suffer immensely. GEO Group is attempting to remedy the situation by transferring all detainees to other detention centers, where they will undoubtedly face more overcrowding, forced labor, dismal conditions, and untold abuses.
The North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America believe in a world without borders and prisons. Any decent future does not include the arbitrary detention of people who cross imaginary lines to seek better lives for themselves and their families.
WE DEMAND THAT EVERYONE INSIDE DELANEY HALL BE FREED IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR COMMUNITIES, NOT TRANSFERRED TO DISTANT TORTURE CAMPS!