Stand in solidarity with hunger strikers at Delaney Hall detention center, against ICE concentration camps, and for the dignity of all immigrants!

Call BOTH of your Senators.

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Call Script

Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State]. I am calling today to first thank you for your fierce opposition to the Republican Reconciliation 2.0 bill, and to ask that you to publicly use every tool at your disposal to reject the violence happening at Delaney Hall (NJ) and detention centers around the country, including here in California (Adelanto). 

Specifically, I urge you to:

1. Speak out about conditions at Delaney Hall and detention centers around the country by visiting Delaney Hall and CA detention sites including the one in Adelanto (San Bernardino County)

2. Hold press conferences outside the detention centers. Highlight the hunger strikes of those held in subhuman conditions in these concentration camps.

3. Investigate ICE detaining thousands of immigrants under dangerous conditions 

4. Oppose any additional funding for ICE, or Border Patrol, including the Reconciliation 2.0 funding bill which includes $70B additional funding for these agencies.

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Background

In the last year, massive federal funding has poured into ICE and Border Patrol, giving them the resources to expand their detention and deportation operations for years to come. The Trump/Vance administration is massively  expanding detention facilities across the country. Republicans in Congress are trying to jam through billions more in funding in a reconciliation bill for Trump’s mass racially-motivated deportation machine.

One example of this horrifying expansion is happening at Delaney Hall, a huge detention facility in Newark, NJ where people are living in horrifying conditions enduring contaminated food, rancid water, and no access to health care. Delaney Hall is a private, for-profit, prison run by the GEO Group which is ICE’s single largest contractor, received a $1 billion contract from ICE to run it. GEO operates more than a dozen similar ICE-funded camps around the country. Conditions have been so desperate that four people have broken through the walls to escape. In the first year since opening, Delaney Hall has also had a death under confusing circumstances. 

Over Memorial Day weekend, Members of Congress and local activists visited the facility, demanding to exercise their legal oversight authority to see what was happening inside the detention center. Instead of complying, ICE pepper-sprayed them and blocked them from accessing detainees. Senator Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed by a federal agency for trying to do his job. Last year Rep. McIver, who represents the district where Delaney is, was criminalized for doing her job: exercising oversight authority. Now the escalations continue against first amendment protests outside, while reports of violence continue to emerge from within the facility. 

While “All eyes on Delaney” has taken off online, conditions are equally appalling at the Adelanto facility in California, at the other three facilities where detainees are on hunger strike, and even at Dilley which holds families. The American Academy of Pediatrics firmly holds that no child should be held in a detention center, and has additionally condemned the reported conditions at Dilley. 

Congress cannot look away. They must use every lever of power they have to demand dignity for immigrants and nonwhite American citizens who have been illegally detained, and be in solidarity with the people in detention on hunger strike. This moment requires active escalation. Immediately:

1. Members of Congress must gain access to people in detention at Delaney Hall

2. All Members must use their platforms to draw attention to the inhumane conditions at detention centers across the country

3. Not a single dime can move to the detention machine, ICE, or Border Patrol

Long term, Delaney Hall and all detention centers must be shut down, the expansion of the detention machine in this country must be stopped, and all those responsible for these conditions must be held to account.

At the same time, Senate Republicans may try to ram their Reconciliation 2.0 (Recon2) ICE expansion bill through the Senate this week. Our senators are committed to opposing this vile bill that increases ICE/CBP for three years into 2029 and exempts those agency's immigration enforcement actions from congressional power-of-the-purse oversight.