🚨 BREAKING: PEOPLE POWER BLOCKS ICE Transfer of Hunger Strike Leader
Advocates say Martin Soto will NOT be transferred after protesters mobilized outside Delaney Hall and the ACLU got involved.
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Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton is LIVE outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where protesters had brought barricades to block an ICE vehicle they believed was part of an attempt to transfer Martin Soto, a leader of the prison hunger strike.
Now, advocates say the ACLU has been working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and that the office has given assurances that Martin will NOT be moved.
Martin has reportedly lost nearly 30 pounds while detained inside Delaney Hall.
His wife, Gabriella Soto, has become a force outside the prison — speaking out every day, demanding media attention, and exposing what she says her husband and others are enduring inside.
Families and advocates feared ICE was trying to retaliate against Martin because Gabriela helped bring national attention to Delaney Hall’s conditions.
This comes as people detained inside the facility have launched a hunger and labor strike over alleged conditions including worms and moldy food, rampant black mold, lack of privacy, and other human rights violations.