Senator Kim: We Cannot Give ICE and GEO Group a Blank Check for More Cruelty and Chaos

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Senate Republicans push legislation forward to give billions more to ICE and CBP, Senator Andy Kim (D-N.J.) continues standing up for detainees and their families at Delaney Hall, and demanding accountability for ICE’s lawlessness.

“If people are concerned about what's happening at Delaney Hall, let us try to stop this legislation. Let us shine a light on this and be able to make sure the American people understand that what is happening in Delaney Hall is a direct result of the lawless actions that this Republican Congress has pushed forward through these reconciliation bills, by giving them a blank check, without any accountability,” said Senator Kim.

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WATCH - In Floor Remarks, Senator Kim emphasized immediate ways to hold ICE and Geo Group, the private company who runs Delaney Hall and profits off this misery, accountable by:

1. Surge the medical support into Delaney Hall - “One doctor for 800 people is not enough.”
2. Give people access to the courts - “When someone's there at Delaney Hall, eight months, ten months, 12 months are beyond, with no sense when it's going to end, that's on us...The American people are paying for this. People deserve their day in court, and the American people deserve to not have their money wasted by a process that is so clearly broken.”
3. Immediate investigations into conditions inside Delaney Hall - “The nearly billion dollars going to GEO Group for Delaney Hall, that's your taxpayer dollars. You should know where it's going and how they're spending it.”

Senator Kim added: “How we move forward is a choice. A choice between a status quo of corporate profit and cruel policies or moving forward to enforce our laws with humanity.”

In his remarks, Senator also called out GEO Group, one of the largest private prison corporations in America, for profiting off of the misery of those detained and fueling the Trump administration’s corrupt and broken immigration system.

Last week, Senator Kim led members of the New Jersey Democratic Congressional delegation in sending a letter to Secretary Mullin and Acting Attorney General (Acting AG) Todd Blanche outlining a series of demands for immediate action and accountability, and to end ICE brutality and inhumane detention at Delaney Hall in Newark.

The letter built on months of work by Senator Kim to close Delaney Hall and end inhumane detention across the country, including his oversight visits this past week and previous inspections and direct conversations with those detained. The Senator also filed a series of reforms to rein in the Trump administration's lawless ICE, including specifically to end inhumane detention at Delaney Hall, and introduced a package of legislation to end warehouse detention nationwide and prevent taxpayer dollars from funding ICE’s lawlessness.

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