Family visitations to resume at NJ immigration detention facility after clashes

The governor has called for a de-escalation as demonstrations continue.

Family visitation hours are set to resume on Sunday at the Delaney Hall Immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, following violent clashes between protesters and police that prompted arrests and a mandatory curfew around the facility, according to the state's governor.

"DHS has met our demand to restore family visitation," New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced in a statement on Sunday morning. Visits had been interrupted by the ongoing protest over the alleged poor treatment of detainees at the hall.

"Starting today, limited visitation will resume at noon, and regular visitation hours will be restored beginning tomorrow," Sherrill said on X, in part.

The governor advised families to contact the Delaney Hall facility for additional details, adding that law enforcement on the scene will help escort families into the facility.

"It is critical that outside actors allow this to happen safely," Sherrill said at a news conference on Sunday.

"We did not cave to the governor's demands," a Department of Homeland Security official told ABC News on Sunday, adding that "visitation was suspended because the violent riots outside the facility made it unsafe for our officers, detainees’ families and lawyers to visit the facility."

"With Delaney Hall secure, ICE operations continue as normal," the official said.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in a statement on Sunday that he conducted an oversight visit to Delaney Hall that morning with New Jersey Reps. Rob Menendez, Josh Gottheimer, and LaMonica McIver.

"The conditions of confinement we witnessed firsthand and discussed with approximately two dozen detainees at the Delaney Hall detention center shock the conscience," Jeffries said in his statement, in part. "Immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, just and humane. The Trump administration is doing the exact opposite."

Jeffries further said that during the oversight visit he and the others in other House members "learned of unsanitary living conditions, lack of adequate medical care and unhealthy food. This is not America."

"Delaney Hall must be shut down immediately," Jeffries' statement said.

The Department of Homeland Security has previously denied the allegations, along with reports that detainees are staging a hunger strike in protest.

In a separate post Sunday morning, Sherrill said that overnight, masked individuals at Delaney Hall, attacked the barrier in the protected protest area outside of the facility and began "aggressive