His client told him that around 50 inmates had started a protest that had become “aggressive” and converted into violence, said Cetin. The lawyer accused the US immigration authority ICE and the operator of the detention center “lack of planning and irresponsibility”.
Shortly after US President Donald Trump took office, ICE had given the company Geo Group to a billion dollar order to convert an industrial plant near the international airport in Newark to a deportation center with 1000 seats. In May the new Delaney Hall Center recorded the first migrants to threaten deportation.
According to US media, there were protests in front of the facility on Thursday, in which demonstrators stopped an ICE car and fought together with police officers.
A representative of the US Department of Homeland Protection confirmed the AFP news agency on Friday that four occupants of the center had broken out the evening before. Additional security forces have been sent to “to find these outlets”.
Newark’s mayor Ras Baraka from the Democrats spoke on Friday of worrying reports about the conditions in Delaney Hall. These ranged “from food withdrawal and poor treatment to uprisings and fled inmates”. He requested access for urban representatives and members of the congregation to the detention center to check and monitor the conditions there. “Private prisons are a big problem for our state and its constitution,” said Baraka.
The mayor had been temporarily arrested in May when he had tried to enter the detention center guarded by ICE and security officers.
Trump had won the presidential election last year with the promise to take action hard against the “invasion” of immigrants without papers. Since taking office, hooded ICE officials have been in immigrants to raids across the country, migrants were partially tied up on hands and feet.
Protest is against Trump’s approach, which partially converted violence in Los Angeles ago. The US President then sent soldiers from the National Guard and marine fans in the California metropolis against the will of the local authorities.
