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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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José Olivares

Family visitation partly restored at New Jersey ICE facility after week of protests

A line of protesters hold large letter signs spelling a message along a roadside fence
Protesters demonstrate at a road block leading to Delaney Hall, in Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday. Photograph: David Dee Delgado/Reuters

Family visitation at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center is being restored to at least part of the facility, New Jersey’s governor and US homeland security officials confirmed on Sunday morning, after a week during which heated demonstrations at the site were met with aggressive policing tactics.

Meanwhile, families of detained immigrants grappled with conflicting information about exactly whom among them would get visitation after the announcement from Governor Mikie Sherrill and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And local officials by Sunday had also indefinitely imposed an overnight curfew beginning at 9pm for a blocked-off area including Delaney Hall.

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