NEWARK - A nauseating stink permeates the atmosphere here, as if the carcasses of rats had washed up on a beach, crawling with maggots, maggots that evidently also occupy food served at Delaney Hall, according to the wife of one of the men detained here.

Gabriela Soto, wife of Martin Soto, a 31-year-old undocumented Peruvian man housed at this ICE detention center on the industrial side of town, spoke to reporters before U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-10) and her colleagues, U.S. Rep. Rob Menendez, Jr. (D-8), and U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-11) entered the facility to check on the conditions of those incarcerated here.

"There's a woman in there right now, named Angie, she is pregnant about five months, and she has not had prenatal care," Gabriela Soto told reporters. "Yesterday they had live worms in the sausages. ...They just have horrible food in there and they don't treat people like they're actually human."

Agents seized Martin Soto on February 1st.

"I want the government to shut the place down and release a majority of the people here," said his wife. "A majority of the people here do not have a criminal record."

She's not the only one who wants ICE put on ice.

Charged by the Trump Justice Department in a three-count indictment alleging she “forcibly impeded and interfered” with federal officers during another oversight visit here one year ago, Congresswoman McIver made her return to Delaney Hall this afternoon after reading a letter smuggled out of the place, which details the horrid conditions therein.

"Yet again we are hearing about the brutal conditions inside that people are facing," said McIver upon emerging from Delaney Hall after having been inside with her colleagues for over an hour. "In an act of real bravery, detainees wrote a letter [detailing]... conditions anyone would recognize as torture. Three-hundred people signed it and the last thing they signed was 'SOS.'"

Now pregnant with her second child and facing up to 17 months in prison because of the charges relating to performing district oversight, McIver said, "Nothing has changed. From day one we have said this facility should not be open."

Earlier this year, federal judge Jamel K. Semper rejected her motions to dismiss criminal charges.

“Congresswoman McIver was performing lawful and critical oversight duties at Delaney Hall – actions that are completely within her authority to do,” Amol Sinha, executive director of the ACLU of New Jersey, said in a statement last month. “Elected officials should not be targeted for doing their jobs or for disagreeing with President Trump about critical issues of the moment, including immigration. As the Trump administration attempts to silence opposition through fear, we urge the court to dismiss the charges against Rep. McIver to protect the fundamental pillars of our democracy."

Subsequent to then-Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba filing the charges against McIver, a federal judge disqualified Habba from her Trump-appointed post.

Today, McIver again defied Trump's reason for keeping Delaney Hall operational.

The Congresswoman noted that even people housed in Delaney Hall who signed a self-deportation letter are still here waiting to be deported.

"Why?" McIver demanded. "The President claims his agenda is to get rid of people not here legally. He is holding people hostage in facilities like this month after month after month after they have literally volunteered to go back to their country. It's about money. It's about greed. It's about this president constantly breaking the law and getting his friends and buddies rich. This is a billion-dollar industry. The GEO Group [contracted by ICE] has billions of dollars.  They are still holding people hostage. It is truly unacceptable. Until the abuses end, until they abolish ICE, I'm going to continue to show up here. Not just because of what they did to me the first time I came here, but because of what they're doing to the people inside."

Congresswoman Mejia told InsiderNJ:

"This is costing lives, this is costing mental health well-being, this is costing taxpayer dollars and in the end, we are denying civil rights, due process, equal protection of the detainees who are due such protections. We are stripping every American of them."

One thing was clear through the sweltering industrial haze: the suffocating stench inside and out of Trump's gulag mostly had to do with his administration's utter inability to meet the basic demands of the country.

"No one is safe in Trump's America," said Congressman Menendez.

Watch McIver-Menendez-Mejia Press Conference below:

Congresswoman Mejia took time to speak with InsiderNJ immediately prior to going into the facility.

Watch that interview below: