Delaney Hall Shutdown Demanded | Jersey News

Jersey City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 11, 2026 · 1m

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is demanding the immediate shutdown of Delaney Hall, a Newark immigration detention center, after a Dover woman, Margarita Cielo Balbuena, exposed harrowing abuse—including pepper spray, physical violence, and spoiled food—during her two-month detention. Her testimony, alongside three detainee deaths since the facility opened last May, including Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo’s death in August, has ignited bipartisan outrage. New Jersey lawmakers and the state Attorney General are now investigating alleged civil rights abuses, calling for systemic reform…