ICE to open East Coast’s largest federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to reopen Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, the largest ICE detention center on the East Coast with a 1,000-bed capacity, under the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Owned by GEO Group, the facility will cost ICE $60 million annually for 15 years and is expected to be operational by the end of June, despite New Jersey’s law banning ICE from opening immigrant-specific jails. GEO Group sued the state to overturn the law, citing the US Constitution’s supremacy clause, as New Jersey currently has only one active immigration detention center in Elizabeth, while New York and Pennsylvania have a combined 1,600 bed capacity across multiple facilities.

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