The Democrats’ Contradictory Delaney Hall Narrative
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Left: New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill gives remarks in Washington, D.C., May 19, 2026. Right: Protesters clash with ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., May 26, 2026. (Annabelle Gordon, Ryan Murphy/Reuters)
In remarks to reporters, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill recently related “heartbreaking reports of unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional conditions” that prevail inside the Newark-based migrant detention facility Delaney Hall. She cannot say for herself whether those reports are true, of course. She maintains that she has been conspicuously barred from accessing the facility, raising “serious questions about what is happening behind its walls.”
In covering her remarks, though, the New York Times offers an innocuous explanation for Sherrill’s inability to survey the landscape for herself. In the process, the paper exposed the degree to which the governor’s fellow Democrats, who also ...
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