Mother Bones#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
9:07 PM · May 26, 2026
"Livestream at Delaney Hall right now is here. Reporter was just pepper sprayed.
Protestors are being attacked right now by ICE."
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#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
9:07 PM · May 26, 2026
"Reporting that an hour ago an ICE agent said 'we just want peace' as he launched pepper spray into the crowd. Some sick shit.
ICE is pushing protestors into the public road where 18 wheelers are going by, and into rail lines."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
5:54 AM · May 28, 2026
"I cannot say this loudly enough: we need everyone to know what is happening at Delaney Hall.
300 detainees inside are on Day 7 of a hunger and labor strike as of today.
ICE is beating, gassing, tasing and assaulting protestors outside every night, and it is getting worse."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
5:54 AM · May 28, 2026
"Every night is worse.
Last night they tear-gassed at point blank range, beat protestors with batons, and chased a protestor into oncoming traffic where his leg was run over by an 18 wheeler.
The night before they targeted an organizer and medic, tackled him, tore off his mask, kidnapped him and dumped him ten miles away.
They pepper sprayed a sitting senator on Monday."
#Via EC McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
5:54AM · May 28 2026
"We need wall to wall coverage. The hunger strike has spread to 5 detention camps nationwide while White House claims it’s a handful & 'sanctuary politicians' are inventing this.
Delaney detainees are fed worm-infested food, forced slave labor in exchange for showers, denied cancer & HIV meds. A woman miscarried and was denied medical care. They are denied water, forced to sit in menstrual blood w/no sanitary supplies."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
5:54 AM · May 28, 2026
"Delaney is a torture camp, and Trump’s secret police are brutalizing anyone who shows up to protest.
The world needs to know what’s going on here.
My feed is packed with on the ground videos from the last three days. Please share them everywhere.
Free them all. Abolish ICE."
ICE is escalating at Delaney Hall-- what you need to know
ICE GOES WILD on Protesters, TASES & Shoves Into Van
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
5:54 AM · May 28, 2026
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#Via Greg Sargent
@GregSargent
2:50 PM · May 28, 2026
"New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down."
#Via Whitney Curry Wimbish
@whitneycwimbish
3:24 PM · May 28, 2026
"Guards are retaliating against immigrant prisoners inside Delaney Hall with chemical weapons and beatdowns."
#Via Andrea Devon
@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks
3:19 PM · May 28, 2026
" 'Honey, they’re hitting us.' 💔
That’s what a woman says her husband told her from inside Delaney Hall.
She says detainees were beaten, gassed, and injured.
Now she says they’re cleaning up the blood.
Every elected official should be at Delaney Hall demanding answers RIGHT NOW."
#Via Whitney Curry Wimbish
@whitneycwimbish
3:24 PM · May 28, 2026
"Nedia Morsy just sent out an SOS, calling on members of Congress in NJ and neighboring states to immediately go to Delaney Hall 'and leverage all their power to end retaliation and free all detainees.'
Guards are going to kill someone if no one intervenes and shuts it down."
#Via Gillian Brockell
@gbrockell
4:25 PM · May 28, 2026
"There is an ICE plane on the ground in Newark right now. ICE might be trying move some of the [hunger] strikers to Louisiana."
#Via Acyn / acyn
6:14 PM · May 28, 2026
"Menendez: Delaney Hall was supposed to be a place to hold the worst of the worst. That’s just not the reality of who’s there. We had a pastor who was there for several weeks. We have mothers, fathers. You have pregnant women who are there."
#Via Rep. LaMonica McIver / replamonica
5:49 PM · May 28, 2026
"Shut down Delaney Hall and abolish ICE."
#Via Brendan Gutenschwager
@BGOnTheScene
6:10 PM · May 28, 2026
"Greg Bovino has arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport."
#Via Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez / ramirez.house.gov
6:38 PM · May 28, 2026
"Reports DHS & ICE employees are torturing immigrants in Delaney Hall are beyond distressing & completely unacceptable. As they did with CECOT, DHS is permitting & endorsing dehumanization & abuse of our neighbors, incl minors.
Congress must do more than just make statements. They must cosponsor my Melt ICE Act to end immigration detention, disrupt immigration enforcement & return resources to our communities NOW."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
6:37 PM · May 28, 2026
"Status Coup News is back live on the ground at Delaney."
🚨BREAKING: LIVE ICE Prisoners BLOODIED, Chemicals Released Inside
#Via amanda moore 🐢
@noturtlesoup17
5:54 PM · May 28, 2026
"Absolutely thrilled to announce they’ve got this [bear] spray out again. 😩"
#Via Project Salt Box / projectsaltbox
7:23 PM · May 28, 2026
"The US government obligated $64.3 million to GEO Group to operate Delaney Hall beginning in Feb 2025.
Of that, $822,109 (1.3%) was for medical care of detainees.
The rest, ostensibly, is for transportation, operations, and maintenance costs (including employee salaries)."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
6:41 AM · May 29, 2026
"Delaney Hall. 😭
Not identifying the photographer because they were on the ground last night."
#Via The City Reporter
@THECITY
1:37 PM · May 29, 2026
"A standoff at Delaney Hall in Newark entered its seventh day since detainees announced a work and labor strike, as immigration agents clashed with protesters outside."
https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/05/29/delaney-hall-ice-detention-clashes-markwayne-mullin/
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@_L1vY_ @ecmclaughlin it should be broken. Ours are..
@_L1vY_ Revolting little Nazi wannabe. @BGOnTheScene
@_L1vY_ I’ts tragically real and completely unreal at the same time.
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Krzysztof Sakrejda@_L1vY_ ew, it's like Newark stepped in a cow pie
DB@_L1vY_ @BGOnTheScene What does little Nazi think he’s going to do? He got retired so what official role would he be in? If he is indeed retired he is a private citizen and should be dragged away by his little tanned nuts.
@lawyersgunsnmoney Turns out he was at a hub of his trip to Europe for a literal Nazi conference 😖
@_L1vY_ Thanks for letting me know. That Fascist sumbitch spreading more hate. Bovino is an #enemyofthepeople
Joe Heafner@_L1vY_ @YakyuNightOwl @GregSargent I just don't understand how they keep getting away with this. It's like they simply don't care about the law abd are literally daring anyone to stop them. The local looice force should neutralize them. I don't understand how and why this hasn't been stopped.
@heafnerj @YakyuNightOwl @GregSargent
I think we know why and the answer is not pretty
PoloniousmonkI'm in Minneapolis and just don't understand why we don't send the cops to arrest these criminal fucks. Last I heard, kidnapping was a pretty serious crime. NJ should SWAT the cunts guarding that facility. They're cowards. They'll fold like a freshly dried pair of tighty whities.
And, while it's nice that we actually did arrest one or two up here in the frosty North, I'd rather see better from the law than, "maybe we'll arrest less than one percent of the criminals, but only after a couple months and only if civilians collect enough evidence to justify an arrest." I actually think we should take away all the cop cars. Make them fuckers ride the bus to the crime scene if they have no interest in actually preventing crime, but only maybe arresting someone long after.
@Uair It's enraging, it's disgusting, it's terrifying.
UnlikelyLass@Uair @_L1vY_ @GregSargent also in minneapolis -- and I think the core answer is related to the fact that we have two police unions, not one. The cops are pretty dang racist, and aren't willing to act against the federal CBP.
Two unions?
Cops shouldn't be allowed to have a union. They exist to break unions. A cop union is like a soldier union. How well you think that'd work out on the battlefield?
@Uair and we have two, because black officers couldn't join the white one, and they persist even to today.
Wow. Thanks for the historical context.
Me, I'd like to go all Black Panthers and drive those fuckers out of our city. Patrolling squads of armed citizens and snipers on the roof. ICE would tuck their tail between their legs and run away crying if they thought the good people were actually going to shoot back. I say we shoot first. I understand why I'm not allowed a voice :) I like to actually solve problems, but then the country would be too nice. All our problems are artificially created to give the people the illusion of progress while the 0.01% laugh all the way to the bank.
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This is from Wednesday but useful; ICYMI there are *five* ICE centers nationwide involved in the hunger strike:
#Via L.A. TACO / lataco
4:12 PM · May 27, 2026
"Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.:"
Around 500 People Are Now On A Hunger Strike at Five ICE Detention Centers Across the U.S.
#Via Senate Gabe / senategabe
10:03 AM · May 30, 2026
"If I am understanding this correctly, the federal government threatened to invade Mikie Sherrill's state and shutdown its largest airport so rather than let the brownshirts come in, she made her own cops the brownshirts."
#Via Ruth Delgado / heylookitsruth
11:23 AM · May 30, 2026
"Governor Mikie Sherrill says it was 'absolutely necessary' for the NJ State Police to attack protesters at Delaney Hall last night.
This was in order for NJ State Police to 'secure the area outside of Delaney Hall,' 'protect public safety, and avoid escalation from ICE.' "
https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/2026/approved/20260530.shtml
#Via Ruth Delgado / heylookitsruth
11:32 AM · May 30, 2026
"This is what 'bringing down the temperature' looks like for Gov. Sherrill:"
#Via Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas
10:45 AM · May 30, 2026
"The Delaney Hall hunger strikers’ number one demand is to meet with Governor Sherrill. She made one attempt to enter, was denied by ICE and never tried again."
#Via talia ben-ora
@taliajane
1:12 AM · May 30, 2026
"Protestors finally caught on to Cam Higby openly boasting about getting them doxxed & hit with federal charges. Supposedly stole his phone, busted his mics.
Crowd pressed him *& his armed security* off the block. He & fellow propagandist Nick Sortor were taken behind DHS lines."
#Via Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas
10:55 PM · May 30, 2026
"Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
10:05 PM · May 30, 2026
"A state police or Geo Group car just plowed into protestors at Delaney Hall.
My God.
There was a question as to whether someone was run over but it looks like not."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
10:10 PM · May 30, 2026
"The only entity causing violence right now are the state police.
Delaney Hall is an absolute war zone."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
10:26 PM · May 30, 2026
"Atrocities are happening inside and outside Delaney Hall.
Outside, it’s all on livestream, and it’s horrifying.
Row of horses charging at protestors now."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
10:30 PM · May 30, 2026
"They are just blanketing protestors with tear gas at Delaney Hall. Just over and over and over again."
#Via Lex McMenamin / lexmcmenamin.com
10:40 PM · May 30, 2026
"seeing reports of rubber bullets and tear gas with an absolute deluge of police forces at Delaney. for tue second night in a row, people are facing cops on charging horses. the governor said sending in state police was 'deescalating' the situation."
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
11:19 PM · May 30, 2026
"Zip ties are out. All of DH area is cleared out but the state police look like they’re getting ready for a mass arrest down the street."
#Via Dissent in Bloom / dissentinbloom0
10:59 PM · May 30, 2026
"A fire is burning outside the Delaney Hall ICE facility. Protesters are still chanting 'Chinga La Migra' even as police push them back with horses, chemical munitions, and projectiles."
#Via Eileen Clancy / clancyny
11:37 PM · May 30, 2026
"When I saw this [photo of police] an hour and a half ago, I thought, 'Naw, this can't be real.' It is. These folks are with the Essex County Sheriff.
Today, there are 4 law enforcement agencies on the scene ready to repress–NJ State Police, Newark Police, Essex County Sheriff, and ICE. Geo Group has guards too."
#Via Ruth Delgado / heylookitsruth
12:44 AM · May 31, 2026
"Mayor Ras J Baraka activates curfew for public safety at Delaney Hall:
"Beginning at 12 a.m., Doremus Avenue will be closed to all pedestrian traffic… This curfew will remain in effect nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice."
#Via Status Coup News / statuscoupnews
11:15 PM · May 30, 2026
"NJ state police slam anti-ICE protesters with their shields and fire flash bang grenade smack dab in the middle of dense crowd of protesters."
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#Via Lupita Nihongo / otsumamiboy.blacksky
11:51 PM · May 30, 2026
"The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents.
And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all.
It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof."
#Via MS NOW / ms.now
10:55 PM · May 30, 2026
"While reporting on a large police presence breaking up a protest outside Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey, Ali Velshi is escorted away by police."
@_L1vY_ there's a history of this dynamic from the end stages of communist Poland where local leaders sending riot police after protesters is viewed (by many people who lived through it) as their attempt to prevent the Russians from sending in the military to do it with live ammunition.
I don't think it was true then (lack of intervention probably had more to do with internal problems in other parts of the USSR) but it's definitely not true here, they don't have that leverage yet.
@wronglang Police in the US have been doing this same thing the whole time since the days of supporting slave-catchers coming into northern cities ☹