. @michaelsolwarren.com has been out at Delaney Hall all day for @wnyc.org @gothamist.com covering the events unfolding inside and outside the ICE detention center.
Read our reporting below.
NEW: ICE officers just beat and used tear gas on detainees at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, per family members of people inside.
This is as the hunger/labor strike at the facility continues for its seventh fay.
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- the transfer of at least one of the strikers away from Delaney Hall
- guards saying other strikers may be transferred away from the site
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Fears of ICE are driving customers away in NYC's immigrant neighborhoods, local business surveys show.
In Jackson Heights, Corona, and Sunset Park nearly 80% of surveyed businesses reported being impacted by ICE.
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NEW video shows Chidozie Okeke's car after he was arrested by ICE in Bushwick. Eyewitnesses say ICE officers smashed the passenger-side window.
Okeke's arrest and hospitalization spurred protests of hundreds of people outside Wyckoff hospital on Saturday night.
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Gothamist saw multiple people taken out on stretchers and transported away in Ambulances.
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Immigrants held at Delaney Hall ICE detention center are alleging retaliation for the ongoing hunger/labor strike, per elected officials and advocates, including:
- revocation of phone and tablet privileges
- more transfers between units
- more dorm checks
- no coffee