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José Olivares in Newark, New Jersey

‘It’s like they’re kidnapped there’: families tell of distress over ‘inhumane’ ICE jail

a man has his arm around another men's neck as they walk away from a detention facility
Volunteers help escort a man (center right) who was released from Delaney Hall. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

In mid-May, Elder Guerra was showering inside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility when he slipped and fell.

Guerra, a Guatemalan immigrant, has been locked up in the New Jersey jail for nearly five months. He was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Newark in January while helping a friend move his snowed-in car. Officers had approached and asked a few questions, according to a relative who spoke with the Guardian.

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