1 Of 4 Migrants Who Escaped NJ ICE Detention Captured
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Adrian and Paola Clouatre were attending a customs appointment in New Orleans when she was arrested by ICE agents last month. Now her husband is speaking out.
Sandoval-Lopez and three others — Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada, Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes and Andres Pineda-Mogollon — escaped Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark on Thursday following a violent uprising inside the center.
Advocates are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to permanently close the state's deactivated prisons before they can be repurposed by the federal government as immigration detention centers, in order to protect California's progress on decarceration and prevent ICE expansion.
The troops are authorized to detain people who pose a threat to federal personnel or property, but only until police can arrest them.
Lawmakers told USA TODAY they have been denied entry in California and New York as the Trump administration increases quotas to detain migrants.
The Trump administration is tapping 41 companies to compete for contracts in his $45 billion push to expand immigration detention centers. They include private prison operators, tent companies and disaster relief providers.
About 50 immigrants being held at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.
Federal authorities moved Jennifer Rodriguez to a detention center in Texas for roughly two months ahead of potential deportation to her native Colombia. Ultimately, she was released and returned
DHS has revealed the identities of the four migrants who escaped a Newark ICE facility on Thursday night, identifying each as “public safety threats" who are still at large.