{"id":1092,"date":"2026-06-02T23:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:39:59","slug":"markwayne-mullin-refutes-delaney-hall-detainees-allegations-reports-no-health-violations-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Markwayne Mullin refutes Delaney Hall detainees\u2019 allegations, reports no health violations found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that no health violations have been found in the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which has become the latest flash point of anti-ICE violence.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1090\">Sen. Bernie Sanders teases bill to give the public ownership in AI companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Allegations of inhumane conditions, including maggot-infested food, made Delaney Hall a magnet for protesters who became increasingly violent.<\/p>\n<p>But at a Senate hearing Tuesday, when Democratic lawmakers pressed Mr. Mullin about the conditions, the secretary reported that Delaney Hall got a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, just recently, the state of New Jersey\u2019s health inspectors went in. They didn\u2019t find one single violation,\u201d Mr. Mullin said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a \u201clot of claims were made, and they just absolutely weren\u2019t true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protests erupted in late May outside Delaney Hall after allegations of diseases spreading unchecked inside the facility, detainees being denied medical care and being fed food full of mold and maggots.<\/p>\n<p>At the hearing, Mr. Mullin also rejected reports of hunger strikes at the facility. He said a \u201chandful\u201d of unauthorized immigrants detained at Delaney Hall refused to eat because they demanded \u201cethnic right food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He previously pushed back against complaints about the food by saying, \u201cThey can go back to their country and get whatever food they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the appropriations panel, didn\u2019t buy Mr. Mullin\u2019s explanations. Mr. Murphy cited three letters sent to the Trump administration from roughly 300 detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1088\">Acting attorney general says $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is permanently dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t shock you that there\u2019s no mention of ethnic food in these letters,\u201d he said. \u201cThese letters allege that there has been spoiled food, delayed medical treatment, sewage backups, undue pressure to sign deportation paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mullin said the detainees\u2019 complaints were unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have twice the square footage at Delaney Hall than the state penitentiary does in New Jersey,\u201d he said. \u201cThey said that the medical condition was horrible. We had twice as much medical staff per person than the state penitentiary does in New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations outside Delaney Hall, which have been a daily occurrence since late May, grew increasingly hostile with protesters storming police barricades, setting fires in the street and hurling glass bottles, rocks, lumber and fireworks at police.<\/p>\n<p>Federal and local law enforcement responded with force, including pepper spraying protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mullin said that officers have been hit by projectiles and car windows were smashed.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Katie Britt, the Alabama Republican who chairs the panel, said that First Amendment rights have legal limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe clear, all Americans have the right to protest the government, and you will meet no bigger supporter of the First Amendment than myself,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the situation we\u2019ve seen unfolding at the facility goes well beyond peaceful protest. It\u2019s devolved into violence and riots, including against law enforcement personnel working to keep Americans safe. It\u2019s simply not acceptable to salt assault ICE officers or obstruct lawful federal operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As many as 60 protesters have been arrested at Delaney Hall as the violence escalated in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=1086\">Siege of Delaney Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that no health violations have been found in the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, which has become the latest flash point of anti-ICE violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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