Women at Delaney Hall demand firing of a guard they say is sexually assaulting detainees

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48271069

Immigrants’ rights advocates say about 30 women held at Delaney Hall joined ongoing hunger and labor strikes at the Newark detention center on Wednesday, adding gender-specific demands that included the firing of a female guard they accuse of sexually assaulting 10 female detainees.

Advocates from groups belonging to the ICE Out of New Jersey coalition told reporters outside Delaney Hall on Thursday that the women were essentially picking up the slack for an initial group of about 300 mostly male detainees who launched the strikes last month, before most of them were transferred out of Delaney Hall in recent days.

“We know that the strike started on May 22, and some of the women were already participating in that, just to be clear, but it’s just that more women in the unit have now entered the strike,” said Cat Adorno, a volunteer with Cosecha, a coalition member group.

“Some of these demands, which can also be found on our website, include everything from improving conditions in the center, such as fixing the bathrooms, such as making sure there’s drinkable water, to also just demanding the freedom of all the women inside, starting with women under the age of 21, all the mothers, right, and all the women with medical conditions."

One of those women, Adorno said, is “paralyzed and using a wheelchair.”

CubitOom 18 points 3 days ago

Immigrants’ rights advocates say about 30 women held at Delaney Hall joined ongoing hunger and labor strikes at the Newark detention center on Wednesday, adding gender-specific demands that included the firing of a female guard they accuse of sexually assaulting 10 female detainees.

Advocates from groups belonging to the ICE Out of New Jersey coalition told reporters outside Delaney Hall on Thursday that the women were essentially picking up the slack for an initial group of about 300 mostly male detainees who launched the strikes last month, before most of them were transferred out of Delaney Hall in recent days.

“We know that the strike started on May 22, and some of the women were already participating in that, just to be clear, but it’s just that more women in the unit have now entered the strike,” said Cat Adorno, a volunteer with Cosecha, a coalition member group.

“Some of these demands, which can also be found on our website, include everything from improving conditions in the center, such as fixing the bathrooms, such as making sure there’s drinkable water, to also just demanding the freedom of all the women inside, starting with women under the age of 21, all the mothers, right, and all the women with medical conditions."

One of those women, Adorno said, is “paralyzed and using a wheelchair.”

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scibra122 23 points 3 days ago

One of those women, Adorno said, is "paralyzed and using a wheelchair."

Reminder that ICE's excuse for their behavior is that they are keeping the "dangerous criminals" off our streets by, apparently, replacing women in wheelchairs with armed thugs who are whisked out of state to avoid legal consequences if they murder you in broad daylight

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CubitOom 12 points 3 days ago

There is no due process. Most of the people living in inhuman conditions inside the concentration center haven't been convicted of a single crime. Most haven't even been convicted of being in the US illegally yet.

Remember, there are children in these concentration camps.

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dreksob 9 points 3 days ago

The rape is the point, concentration camps are designed to torture people, rape is part of that.

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BarneyPiccolo 9 points 3 days ago

I only want to know one thing:

What is that guard's name?

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