NEWARK - While Donald Trump adorns the Oval Office in gold, putters around in a cart at one of his luxury golf courses, expands his personal net worth, smothers the Epstein Files, proclaims not to care about the plight of working people, and bombs a girls' school in Iran, the families of people detained in Delaney Hall suffer excruciating agony.

"My husband has been detained here for four months," said Soto. "Just because someone doesn't have documents doesn't mean you're not part of an American Dream. My husband came here to be with his family. He's not a bad guy. He has helped a lot of people. His family comes first. Trump doesn't know what he's doing with our families. He's ripping families apart every day. We have to close every detention center, not just Delaney Hall."

When Soto and others raised their voices on the side of the road outside the massive, 1000-bed detention facility, truckers passing by leaned heavily on their horns in solidarity.

One woman standing beside Soto outside the ICE-contracted facility, cried as she spoke of the forced detention of her daughter, grabbed by men in masks and guns.

A retired Catholic priest, Father Gene Squeo of St. Patrick's in Jersey City, told InsiderNJ, "Any authentic religion is based on respecting the human rights of every individual, and here we see the opposite of that playing out. We see cruelty, disrespect for human rights, categorizing human beings as criminals and enemies."

The priest joined Soto and other protesters and families of detainees to call for the release of those forcibly housed here and for the closure of Delaney Hall.

Father Squeo also noted the inhumane impact globally of imploded USAID funding, which, in just one example, reduced the staff from 38 to 12 of an aid facility he is affiliated with that serves the poor in Haiti.

According to Cosecha, which helped Soto organize the rally:

"More than 95% of the people locked up [at Delaney Hall] do not have a criminal record. They are innocent people who only work hard. Wife and mother of 2 who is also expecting their 3rd child Gabriela Soto is organizing this protest to FREE THEM ALL & CLOSE DELANEY HALL. She has had her husband in there for over 4 months and she has experienced through her husband about worms in their foods despite what the media says about having a dietary in the facility before food gets delivered out, milk being expired and having to drink it, solidarity confinement due to the fact they stand up to the guards for treating them like animals, not getting medical attention when being needed, allowing to get tortured in there with little to no sleep, and many more problems.

"About Delaney Hall: It is a privately owned carceral facility with over a 1000 bed capacity that reopened pursuant to a 15 year contract with ICE on May 1, 2025. On any given visiting day as many as 500 people come to visit. They are forced to park illegally on a four lane truck route, because the facility provides no visitor parking. On June 12, 2025, it was the site of an uprising after tensions boiled over after people held inside were not given any food for 20 hours. It is also the site of the death of Jean Wilson Brutus who was detained at Delaney for less than 24 hours."

For more earlier this week from InsiderNJ at Delaney Hall, please go HERE.