Ruth Delgado

After five months in detention at Delaney Hall, Emanuel Rodrigues was freed today. Emanuel has a rare, life-threatening condition that affects his mobility. He says he took a bad fall after a guard told him he wasn't allowed to use crutches.

Moments after the curfew was lifted, protesters marched to Delaney Hall, where they were met with a line of Newark PD blocking the area near the gates of Delaney Hall. Video from: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Lod...

At the end of the video you can see NJ State Police dragging away an unarmed protester.

A powerful and somber moment.

“¡Sí se puede! ¡Sí se puede! ¡Sí se puede!” It’s Day 10 and now some of those in detention are finally able to see their loved ones. Translation: Our friend is now entering to see her loved one [at Delaney Hall] after many minutes of delay and confusion. Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Mwf...

Charlene Walker, ED of @faithinnewjersey.bsky.social, shares what happened last night at Delaney Hall. “We just experienced fascism, full stop. Fascism that was perpetrated by the actual state. Not the Trump regime, not ICE, but our state police at the orders of Governor Mikie Sherrill”

Governor @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, why are you protecting ICE? ¡La migra, la policía, la misma porquería!

Black Lives Matter Paterson Leader Zellie Thomas is on the ground outside Delaney Hall as more police in riot gear line up move protesters. Clip from: www.facebook.com/share/v/1C4M...

NJ State Police are telling protesters at Delaney Hall to move their mutual aid tents or be arrested. Video clip: www.facebook.com/share/v/17aj...

FYI for those planning on going to Delaney Hall: @hereswhykevin.bsky.social shared an update on his Instagram Story about NJ State Police blocking Doremus Avenue (the road Delaney Hall is on) Protesters will need to walk a least a mile to get to Delaney Hall now. www.instagram.com/stories/here...

NJ State Assemblyman @ravibhalla.bsky.social and Assemblywoman @katiebrennan.bsky.social went to Delaney Hall earlier today after their office was notified by a relative of a hunger striker that the strikers were being beaten and sprayed with tear gas. IG post: www.instagram.com/reel/DY5rLWD...

Triv was released from Delaney Hall a couple of hours and shared what he could on social media: “I'm going to the hospital, but I was strangled. I was hit in the face. I was thrown to the ground. I was OC sprayed. I was dragged” www.instagram.com/reel/DY5gmX6...

A beautiful moment of solidarity and music as protesters sing “This Little Light of Mine” outside Delaney Hall. Joy is resistance. ✨ Video clip from: www.facebook.com/share/v/1BCz...

“I flew,” said Bowe. “Bowe later went to the ER, where doctors ran tests and determined she had suffered soft tissue damage but no broken bones. Despite her injuries, Bowe said the incident will not deter her from volunteering near Delaney Hall.“ Video from Bowe: www.facebook.com/share/r/1Rei...

“They’re lying about that there is no strike, a food strike, a hunger strike in there. There is a hunger strike and repercussions and retaliations have been launched against the people in the hunger strike,” said @repespaillat.bsky.social calling again to shut Delaney Hall down. #ICEoutofNJ

"... with everything wrong with Trump's mass deportation machine, we're here to push back on it." Earlier today, @repespaillat.bsky.social arrived at Delaney Hall with a court order that says "members of Congress are entitled to go into a detention center without prior notice."

More confrontations outside Delaney Hall as ICE goons attack protesters blocking their vehicles. And it looks like someone got hit by the white van. Some folks on the ground said there were detainees in the van. Video clip from Carlos Ramírez Noticias NJ: www.facebook.com/share/v/1HTo...

Tensions continue to rise as ICE goons continue to pepper spray and attack protesters outside Delaney Hall. Reports from folks on the ground say that multiple people have been hurt and some were arrested. Video clip from orgs live on the ground: www.facebook.com/share/v/1DUR...

Rep. @menendez.house.gov tells Kevin Ortega-Rojas that he believes ICE is canceling visitations to Delaney Hall as RETALIATION for the ongoing protests. #AbuseOfPowerWatch #ICEoutofNJ Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/DYztvqe...

Sen. @kim.senate.gov tried to de-escalate the stand off between DHS agents and protesters in front of Delaney Hall. They promised that the windows of the cars will be down, if protesters stopped blocking. BUT DHS LIES! Now family members don't know if their loved ones are being transferred.

Radio Jornalera NJ, Cosecha NJ, and Carlos Ramirez NJ Noticias have been live streaming the on-going hunger and labor strike happening at Delaney Hall. 🔴🎥 Live now from El Pueblo Unido of Atlantic City: www.facebook.com/share/v/1EZ9...

@menendez.house.gov and @repanalilia.bsky.social ran out of Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) to get their phones, people transferred to EDC reported that Delaney Hall guards were forcing paperwork in front of hunger strikers. Video from @njaij.bsky.social on IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxRvlG...

"NJ Governor Sherrill says she’s been denied entry into Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark... Roughly 300 detainees had gone on a hunger strike to protest conditions they describe as inhumane." DHS denies the strike is happening. 🎥 from @nj.com: www.instagram.com/reel/DYxIJaO...

UPDATE: Governor Mikie Sherrill arrived at Delaney Hall and spoke with Gabriela Soto, the wife of strike leader Martin Soto. www.facebook.com/share/v/18qr...

(5/25/26) Late night update from folks on the ground at Delaney Hall: Around a dozen DHS agents came to move protesters after they tried to block a van that had a person in the back. A couple of protesters were pepper sprayed. Video clip from: www.facebook.com/share/v/1BX2...

POWERFUL MOMENT: Hundreds of immigrants detained at Delaney Hall chanting, “libertad, libertad, libertad” via video call. Translation of chant: “freedom, freedom, freedom”

DAY 3 UPDATE from the Delaney Hall hunger and labor strike: In retaliation, ICE officials are trying to transfer one of the strike leaders out of Delaney Hall. (5/24/26) original post: www.instagram.com/reel/DYvN-eg...

Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social: "We're in a very dangerous time. It's not just about them pushing back on things that we've gained over the years is way past them... They created a culture where it's okay to violate people's rights" #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like! #NewarkNJ #NoKings

This happened ONE DAY after Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law banning federal immigration agents from wearing masks. #ICEoufofNJ

As someone with immigrant friends and family, this win has me emotional. Thank you to the fierce advocates who have fought for this for YEARS, the legislators, and Gov. Sherrill for keeping her promise to protect New Jersey. There’s still so much work to do. But today, I’m holding onto this win. 🦋

"Once again, Trump is using immigration agents as his private security force. He's making a political point," said Amol Sinha, Executive Director of @aclu-nj.org. "He's not scaling back his use of ICE even though the American people are largely against it."

"[Trump's] taking that agency that is recklessly out of control and bringing them to our airports under the lie that somehow this is going to help deal with the long lines that he created in the first place. This is an outrage," said @booker.senate.gov. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTP8...

During a press conference earlier today, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said: “The Trump administration is planning to turn a suburban warehouse into a massive ICE detention facility… This plan won't make the community or our state safer” Full video (starting around 16:50): www.youtube.com/live/xcg_Zkw...

"I’m gonna call ICE on you." That's what Patricia Testaverde, a zoning official in Old Bridge, threatened to do because she thought the tree crew looked undocumented and spoke "broken English." www.nj.com/middlesex/20... Video from r/newjersey