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José Olivares in Newark, New Jersey

Women held at much-denounced ICE detention camp sign on to hunger strike

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Demonstrators outside the Delaney Hall immigration facility in Newark, New Jersey hold signs in protest. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Dozens of women detained inside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in New Jersey announced their participation in a hunger and labor strike, advocates announced on Thursday.

The women, detained in unit 1 of the contentious privately run facility, also released a new list of demands. They are calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release women under 21, women with medical conditions and mothers. They are also demanding improved conditions inside the facility and for their immigration cases to proceed more quickly.

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