Arya Sundaram

@aryasundaram.bsky.social

NYC race + migration reporter for Gothamist/WNYC • past lives @nytimes.com @texastribune.org • words also in @theatlantic.com @theguardian.com @nymag.com • whatsapp/signal = 512-650-8767

I found over 70 federal lawsuits alleging medical neglect and deficiencies at Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, NJ. “It’s a systemic issue that the facility is facing and they’re not correctly addressing.” @menendez.house.gov 1/🧵 gothamist.com/news/wait-fo...

'Wait for my wife to die?': Delaney Hall detainees sue ICE over medical neglect

The Newark facility has been hit with dozens of legal complaints alleging poor medical care.

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NEW: ICE officers just beat and used tear gas on detainees at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, per family members of people inside. This is as the hunger/labor strike at the facility continues for its seventh fay. gothamist.com/news/family-...

Family, activists allege Newark immigration center guards beat and used gas on detainees

Gothamist saw multiple people taken out on stretchers and transported away in Ambulances.

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Immigrants held at Delaney Hall ICE detention center are alleging retaliation for the ongoing hunger/labor strike, per elected officials and advocates, including: - revocation of phone and tablet privileges - more transfers between units - more dorm checks - no coffee

NEW: Immigrants at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in NJ began a hunger and labor strike this AM. Local advocates and a wife of one of the detained organizers say there are hundreds of participants across multiple units, demanding their freedom. gothamist.com/news/immigra...

Immigrants at NJ Delaney Hall ICE detention center go on hunger, labor strike

Detainees have complained of deplorable conditions, including what they call physical and psychological torture from substandard food.

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NEW video shows Chidozie Okeke's car after he was arrested by ICE in Bushwick. Eyewitnesses say ICE officers smashed the passenger-side window. Okeke's arrest and hospitalization spurred protests of hundreds of people outside Wyckoff hospital on Saturday night.

New NYC Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs commissioner Faiza Ali testifying on how the office was hamstrung under former mayor Eric Adams: “ It's no secret that under the previous mayor, MOIA was constrained by an administration that undermined the role of our office…"

Armed immigration officers entered a Brooklyn man’s home last summer without a judicial warrant or his consent, arrested him, and took his personal documents. That’s according to a lawsuit advocating for his release. gothamist.com/news/ice-kno...

ICE knocks on a door in Brooklyn. A 'traumatic nightmare' follows.

Immigration enforcement officers stormed the home without a judicial warrant or the occupants' consent, according to a legal challenge.

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A NYC Council analyst is among a growing number of immigrants detained at asylum offices in NY and across the US. I uncovered 14 other ICE arrests at interviews at the New York asylum office in Bethpage, NY and several others across the country. gothamist.com/news/sign-of...

'Sign of the times': NY asylum-seekers arrested at routine immigration appointments

More than a dozen local immigrants have been arrested when appearing for scheduled meetings, according to a review.

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Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat were just granted entry to inspect the ICE holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC for the first time, following multiple attempts. That's after a judge on Wed ordered ICE to allow Congress members to inspect ICE field offices.

A federal judge has ordered ICE to allow Congress members to inspect the migrant hold rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC and elsewhere across the country. The judge also blocked ICE from requiring members to give a week's notice before visits. gothamist.com/news/federal...

Federal judge orders ICE to allow Congress members to visit migrant hold rooms in NY

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly been turned away when seeking to conduct oversight visits.

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“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”

Arya Sundaram@aryasundaram.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My latest months-long investigation: Inside the surge in ICE visits to NYC homeless shelters under the Trump administration. Several incidents raise questions about whether city staff and federal agents are following the laws. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

My latest months-long investigation: Inside the surge in ICE visits to NYC homeless shelters under the Trump administration. Several incidents raise questions about whether city staff and federal agents are following the laws. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show

Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants.

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NYC shelter staff violated city sanctuary laws at least three times earlier this year -- according to lawyers who reviewed incident reports I obtained. Staff gave ICE and DHS info about a former resident and let them enter private spaces of shelters, reports show. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

ICE enters NYC shelters armed and without judicial warrants, reports show

Here's how 'incident reports' detail interactions between federal immigration enforcement officers and staff at city shelters for immigrants.

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BREAKING: Eleven NY city and state elected officials were just arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers. That's after they demanded to inspect ICE holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza and refused to leave until they were granted entry.

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