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The Trump administration is expanding its immigration detention capacity, reopening a 1,000-bed detention center in New Jersey and adding beds at
other privately-owned facilities around the country.
Immigration authorities say Delaney Hall, as the facility in Newark, N.J.,
is known, will be the first new detention center to open during President Trump's second term.
Delaney Hall had previously operated as a detention center until 2017. Its location — a short drive from Manhattan and close to Newark Liberty International Airport — will dramatically increase the amount of detention space available for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the New
York area.
"The location near an international airport streamlines logistics, and
helps facilitate the timely processing of individuals in our custody as we pursue President Trump's mandate to arrest, detain and remove illegal
aliens from our communities," Caleb Vitello, the acting director of ICE,
said in a statement late Wednesday.
Immigrant advocates fear it will have a significant impact in New Jersey
and beyond.
"The planned opening of Delaney Hall as a private immigration detention facility presents a serious threat to New Jersey's immigrant communities
and is one of the largest immigration detention contracts our state has
ever seen," Amol Sinha, executive director the ACLU of New Jersey, said in
a statement. "With rapidly increasing federal immigration enforcement in
New Jersey, this announcement is a further attack on our state and only
adds to the rising fear felt by people who call our state home."
ICE arrests are up compared with the pace of arrests during the previous administration — but not enough to satisfy the White House. The Department
of Homeland Security said last week that Vitello had been removed from his post, although he is still leading the office in charge of arrests and deportations.
Limited detention space has been one of the key obstacles facing the Trump administration as it tries to ramp up immigration enforcement. ICE has
been running short of beds in its current detention network, with more
than 41,000 immigrants in custody, according to the most recent data
released by the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311966/ice-detention-expansion-new- jersey
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