By Mindy McDonald, CSJP

In 2025, the Department of Homeland Security reopened Delaney Hall as an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, in a heavily industrial section of the city. ICE agents took people from their regularly scheduled court appointments, or from their legal jobs, and locked them up. People who were following the rules to live and work in this country had, overnight, become “illegals” and “criminals.”