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(Elizabeth, NJ) — Federal immigration officials are reopening a large detention center in Newark to support President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reached an agreement with the owner of the Delaney Hall Facility, a privately owned and vacant prison, for federal immigration processing. The one-thousand-bed facility is the first to open under the Trump administration and will expand ICE’s capacity to arrest, detain and remove migrants from communities.
No word on when the facility, which is located in an industrial area near Newark Airport, will reopen but ICE described it as imminent. Newark has been a target of the illegal immigration crackdown since the raiding of a seafood business last month.
