Anti-Militarism: News & Updates

A judge said the 77-year-old grandfather's detention was unlawful. Then ICE seized him again and tried to rush him onto a deportation flight.

This Quixote Center report reviews the conditions causing a hunger strike to take off at Delaney Hall Detention center in Newark. From Rotten, moldey and maggot infested food that is served to detained children and adults to shattered infrastructure and cancer patient medication on tylenol this report exposes the deliberate profit over dignity policy resulting in a statewide occurence of detention conditions resembling the ones in the Delaney Hall Detention Center.

Welcome to the weekly segment called This Week by the {Immigration} Numbers! I’ll highlight some of the main takeaways from the week’s news that you might have missed, but do it in a unique way. Rather than try to summarize everything, I’ll pick a handful of figures each week that best capture where things are moving, explain why they matter, and provide a source where you can learn more. If you have a number to add to the mix or have a question about any of the numbers here, let me know in the comments. 

Detainees in Newark's detention center, Delaney Hall, are subject to work grueling jobs for only 1 dollar a day, if they are even paid at all. Despite the many demands for change, the GEO group refuses to take any action to improve the work conditions in Delaney Hall. This mistreatment has led to a labor and hunger strike of 300 migrants within the detention center. With the strike in effect, the guards have imposed both physical and mental torture to those imprisoned. When these conditions were revealed to the public through a letter by the migrants, a group of protesters gathered around Delaney Hall; they are still continuing their efforts to have the workers' conditions improved.

President Trump's deportation demands throughout his second term in office have caused an 80 percent increase in deportation flights, leading to mass carbon dioxide emissions. ICE's flight operations have accelerated the already imminent climate crisis. In fact, there was an 88 percent increase in ICE flight emissions from 2024 to 2025. In addition to the harmful impact on the environment, ICE imposes dangerous tactics to the detainees on board; they are often chained or placed in body-restraint suits. After the suffering endured while in flight, ICE has been sending detainees to cities and countries that are dangerous and are known to pose a threat to them upon arrival.