bsmall22d ago

> ... research by Austin Kocher, a Syracuse University professor who studies immigration data, shows the vast majority of those held in Delaney ― 88.3% ― have no criminal convictions
> “If you were looking for an ICE facility that holds a large number of dangerous criminals,” he wrote in an analysis, “Delaney Hall just isn’t it.”

https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/ice-detention-facilities-closing-rare-nj-immigration-advocates-delaney-hall-20260606.html
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Why closing an ICE detention center is difficult — and rare. And how N.J. immigration advocates hope to make that happen.

The Trump administration wants to expand detention capacity, not shrink it. Delaney Hall is important to ICE because of its access to major highways and airports.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
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> As of mid-March, Kocher found, nearly all of those in custody, 84.2%, have no final order of removal — meaning they are... confined even though ICE cannot deport them.
> Closing Delaney Hall, said Kathy O’Leary of Pax Christi New Jersey, part of the Catholic peace and justice movement, would benefit not only immigrants in New Jersey. A reduction in detention centers means fewer beds, and it’s harder for ICE to arrest people if they have nowhere to put them, she said.
> “The goal is to free people,” O’Leary said... #NewJersey #PaxChristi #KathyOLeary
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