The mayor of Newark led a protest protest outside of an immigrant detention facility on Tuesday and tried to prevent the prison from becoming a crucial part of the trump government’s assets to perform mass deportations.
The mayor, Ras J. Baraka, has tried to stop the facility, which is expected to keep a maximum of 1,000 migrants per day to work. In the court, the city argued that the owner of the detention center, Geo Group – had one of the largest private prison companies in America – started to work without the required permits.
The public pressure of the early morning led to a tense, hours of impasse. While activists held and sang signs and the mayor waited in a foggy rain, a geo group worker used a chain to lock the front port.
Around 9 o’clock, Newark fire brigade officers The prison company three quotes for code violations – and Mr Baraka, a Democrat that was on his way to Governor of New Jersey, promised to return to the facility daily.
“We want them to follow our rules, follow our laws,” he said, and noticed that city officials were also excluded from entering the building on Monday to carry out fire and health inspections.
‘They keep us outside through the gates and the fences and all these other things, “he said.” But we come down here every day and we are somehow somehow going. “
In February, the federal immigration and customs enforcement agency gave Geo Group A 15 years, $ 1 billion Contract to hold migrants who are confronted with deportation in a squat, Gray Jailhouse known as Delaney Hall who is in a busy industrial corridor in Newark.
The location of the facility is ideal for the deportation efforts of the Trump government: it is near Newark Liberty International Airport, where the federal government organizes many deportation flights, and across the river from immigrant New York City.
According to Newark officials, the center does not yet have a valid certificate of occupation. Nevertheless, federal officials told The New Jersey Globe On Sunday, the facility had already started housing prisoners, which encouraged the impasse that started on dawn on Tuesday.
Geo Group and the Department of Homeland Security, which supervises ICE, did not immediately respond to requests for comments on Tuesday.
The administration is concerned to improve its detention capacity, because it continues to increase the national arrests of immigration, but not at the pace needed to fulfill the campaign blade of President Trump to illegally decorate millions of people living in the country.
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