Pregnant, Indicted, and Not Backing Down: McIver Returns to Delaney Hall (EXCLUSIVE)

The Trump administration charged her with a felony for showing up. She showed up again to fight for migrant rights and close an infamous for-profit detention center in New Jersey.

Martín Soto was walking home after buying diapers for his four-year-old when ICE picked him up. He is married to a pregnant U.S. citizen. A court had authorized his release. None of it mattered. He ended up in Delaney Hall — and when he started organizing a hunger strike inside, federal agents dragged him into a white van while he banged on the window and shouted. His family still doesn’t know where he is.

Jean Wilson Brutus was Haitian. He arrived at Delaney Hall and was dead within 24 hours. ICE waited a week to say anything publicly.

A pregnant woman currently inside the facility is in excruciating pain. She has no access to an OB-GYN.

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., has been documenting conditions like these since last May. She spoke to Migrant Insider this week as a coordinated hunger and labor strike by roughly 300 detainees enters its second week — and as the Trump administration pursues felony charges against her for showing up.

“The facility is unfit to be open,” McIver said, “and …