Tear Down the Real Walls: What the Revolt at Delaney Hall Means for All of Us
Starved, silenced, and criminalized, detained migrants in Newark rebelled against a system built to disappear them.
It started with hunger. Inside Delaney Hall, a privately run ICE detention center tucked in Newark, New Jersey, nearly 50 detainees were left without food for more than 20 hours. No explanation. No apology. Just locked doors, grumbling stomachs, and the rising heat of desperation. On June 12, they broke.
The uprising began as a protest with detainees pou…
