Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill has repeatedly claimed that conditions in the Delaney Hall ICE facility are abhorrent, inhuman, and intolerable. Democratic leaders claimed that the conditions were so horrific that there was a hunger strike going on. As is often the case, there is a closed loop of information fueling such claims. The media ran allegations from advocacy groups, politicians repeated the media reports as fact, and then lawyers cited both as the basis for a lawsuit to shut down the site. The problem is an actual federal inspection that found the facility to be in compliance with virtually every standard.
The most recent investigative report conducted by the DHS Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) found compliance with 17 out of 22 standards. The errors were comparatively minor to the sweeping claims made by Sherrill and others.
The investigation, performed by six OPR officers and four outside contractors, found only 5 areas of violation, including ice buildup in the freezers, fingerprinting omissions, and improper labeling of cleaning equipment.
Moreover, ICE has supplied records showing that state officials have been allowed into the facility for their own inspections, releasing proof from a May 28 visit. Despite such access, Democratic politicians and activists continued to spread the false claim that there have been no such inspections, rotting food, and disgusting conditions.
In support of the state lawsuit, Sherrill proclaimed
“If the GEO Group — with a $1 billion government contract — has nothing to hide and the conditions inside Delaney Hall are as safe and as sanitary as this private corporation and the Trump Administration claim, then there is no legitimate reason why my health inspectors are being kept from full access throughout the building. The people of New Jersey deserve transparency and accountability, and I will continue using all the power of this office to advocate for the detainees and their families.”
The complaint generally refers to public reports as the basis for the action:
“Since then, public reporting has raised significant concerns about public health conditions in the facility, including overcrowding and lack of ventilation; lack of or inadequate medical care or hygiene practices; unsanitary food and drink preparation and storage; and the unchecked spread of communicable diseases like COVID-19 and Influenza.”
That will make for an interesting hearing on the new lawsuit, where the court may question the good-faith accounts made in filings or public statements. The complaint is notably framed in vague terms about the underlying claims and the sources for those allegations.
It notably only asks for access, avoiding a direct demand for a finding of violations.
In the meantime, Sherrill continues to claim that local police are present to protect protesters from the ICE violence and repeats these claims about conditions at the facility.
DHS has continued to rebut claims made by politicians and pundits. However, few of those facts are penetrating the coverage of the protests or changing the sweeping claims being made by elected officials.
This lawsuit could allow for a full consideration of the claims and the facts surrounding the facility.
Here is the complaint: Washington v. The GEO Group
> ice buildup in the freezers
Well, it is an ICE facility…
HEY, has anyone else noticed how the good professor’s daily blog articles and posts are immediately attacked by an increasing number of naysayers, discreditors, and correctors? He should feel buoyed and flattered by any perception that his take and reporting on issues are so threatening to a free-thinking and independent readership that they must be immediately pounced upon.
Turley has gone full MAGA. Is posts are being attacked because fighting MAGAs is everyone’s patriotic duty.
Sally, Try a side by side comparison of Leftard vs MAGA policy positions. It ends up looking like insanity vs common sense. If you really believe that men can become women and vice versa, that children should become pawns in gender based virtue signaling political fights, or that America needs 40M illegals then you should be hauled away by the men in ice cream suits with giant butterfly nets and locked safely away from society.
The greatest MAGA failing right now is Trump’s tragic choices regarding the Epstein saga, Israel, and its wars. I don’t think he can correct course at this point. NDAA 224 is treason.
Lin, I agree with it possibly being complimentary but I also worry it could be malevolent action being taken by the left in order to silence another voice of reason. Don’t forget what was done to conservative voices during Biden’s reign of terror.
It is probably just a variation of the heckler’s veto as seen on campuses around the country. The right changes the channel, doesn’t buy the book or cancels their own subscription while the left demands that Fox News be taken off of cable systems, screams and whistles at speakers and even worse.
But one last possibility is that it’s just contrarian weirdos who are envious of anyone that went to law school and they think it’s a good idea to argue with Professor Turley, a constitutional scholar.
Hello HB: my “compliment” was tongue-in-cheek and your comment is more likely reflective of truth/reality.
p.s. hoping your daily workouts have improved your overall well-being. I remember our earlier exchanges. Please don’t throw me in that there briar patch cuz I am back to good after not getting any more COVID prophylactic vaccines!
Hey Lin, my daily workouts are hopefully keeping me upright as a try to keep on going on. I hope you are doing well after some of life’s battles. I too have stopped with the boosters, I think I had plenty enough early on.
PS. I will never throw you in the briar patch. Please keep on commenting as you are always an asset to common sense and reason.
Hi to Mr. Upstate too! Keep up the good work.
Send the inspectors into any home and they’ll find problems. It’s a detention center and it’s imaginable there’s some rough cookies in there.
Agree with PT. Move forward with suit, quickly. As long as there aren’t 3 day old corpses present, it’ll pass muster.
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Trump went to the hospital on May 26, for the third time in 13 months. This has never happened with any other president.
He has not been seen in public since then – 8 days have passed without a public appearance.
Do you think there is anything to be concerned about ?????
Didn’t you say Biden was sharp as a tack?
We have a lame-duck president. Have Republicans running for Congress and state elections studied the history of the longterm political consequences of Democrat FDR’s unconstitutional imprisonment program during World War Two?
Many of the surviving children and their families of FDR’s illegal imprisonment program 80 years later will never vote for a Democrat due to FDR’s unconstitutional, cruel and evil imprisonment program during World War Two.
In 2026, some of those children and their families still won’t vote for Democrats.
Any Republican legislator in Congress or state houses will pay for this illegal cruelty for their entire lifetime careers, trying to appease a lame-duck president! Hope it’s worth it!
The Texas Ice Facility: Dilley Immigration Processing Center (Dilley, TX) is undergoing the Left-Media Treatment (Media Malpractice) by CBS:
Children “held like criminals” inside ICE detention center
More than 6,300 children under 18 – some as young as two months old, and almost all with no criminal record – have been arrested by federal immigration authorities during President Trump’s second term. Nearly half have been detained by ICE at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center outside San Antonio. “Sunday Morning” correspondent Jim Axelrod talks with a family that was held at Dilley for almost four months; and with Rep. Joaquin Castro, who is calling for Dilley to be shut down due to inhumane conditions, charges the Trump administration denies.
By: Jim Axelrod – CBS Sunday Moring ~ May 31, 2026
CBS Article: cbsnews.com/news/children-held-like-criminals-inside-ice-detention-center/
No one is against legal immigration.
Was the Legislative Branch “Government Accountability Office” (GAO) involved in the inspection? Were any Judicial Branch judges witness to the inspections?
Executive Branch officials – subordinate to Trump – performed the inspection.
Real checks & balances are from separate co-equal branches of government, not one branch policing itself. It’s same reason local police “Internal Affairs” can’t sufficiently supervise police chiefs – the IA officers answer to the local police chief (the person most responsible for their department’s culture). Essentially the Fox guarding the henhouse!
This is not a legitimate inspection by a co-equal branch of government.
The article says the state officials also conducted their own investigation on May 28
Hey Anonymous, do you think that there are Democrats that still work at DHS who were involved in this the inspection? Do you think that in a place like Washington D.C. that people who voted for Harris were involved in this inspection and helped in publishing the report? According to your conspiracy only Republicans were involved in an inspection in a place that is overwhelmingly occupied by liberals. Get a grip.
“Executive Branch officials – subordinate to Trump – performed the inspection.”
Then you also must accept as true that “”Executive Branch officials – subordinate to [Biden] – performed the inspection.”
and “Executive Branch officials – subordinate to [Obama] – performed the inspection,” and so on….
p.s. GAO and judges?????????
(slightly modified for clarity only:
“Then you also must accept as true that, [during their tenures], “”Executive Branch officials – subordinate to [Biden] – performed the inspection,” etc.)
NBC, ABC, PBS and more all carried headlines of worms found in the food at various ICE facilities. (ABC removed its story.)
Let’s see how many of these same MSM/legacy media sources even mention this inspection result.
I also WISH we could legislate cessation of pending immigration hearings/procedures and quick pronto deportation for any detainee (or a family member thereof) who lies about conditions or treatment to all-too-eager media sources.
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/worms-food-poor-medical-care-lights-247-families-130621962
Lin,
Thank you for bringing up that ABC pulled the story. Interesting to see someone at ABC might have thought reporting on a unverified story might not be the best in journalism practices.
Ya, I worry about the food at markets, too. Quality food is a problem.
“. . . worms found in the food . . .”
Well, maybe not worms.
But c’mon, Lin. They’re not given sterling silver salad forks.
The inhumanity!
I suspect they did not find any bookworms either….
It’s time to round up the puppet masters who stage and coordinate these fiascos that attempt to shape a false narrative that spreads across the country like wildfire.
@Catherine
Agreed. ‘Organic’ is a word that no longer exists in the modern left’s lexicon. Everything, everything, is planned, scripted, and paid for. Enough is enough.
Actual cardboard is more human and real than the cutouts of the 2026 DNC. And again: I’m a lifelong centrist and independent. There is nothing remaining for someone like me to even consider in the modern left, and I won’t ever again. They are globalists or worse, period. Worldwide.
Yes, we need to kill the head of the snake rather than just jousting with their ever-available army of indoctrinated tools. Those incompetent “soldiers” on the ground just know how to pick up a sign and read the script. Most have no concept of what is truly happening (and this includes a good deal of the media – I offer the dolts on “The View” as an example of purchased propaganda and most of the democrat politicians and bureaucrats ensconced by obama/autopen) We know that it starts in pre-school with the indoctrinated care-givers who pathetically think they are doing “good” and it doesn’t end through higher education and employment at woke corporations – all whose aim is to create obedient, indoctrinated soldiers for the “fundamental transformation” of America.