{"id":38077,"date":"2026-06-06T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=38077"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:40:25","slug":"die-schlimmsten-der-schlimmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-schlimmsten-der-schlimmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst of the Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

ICE calls the detainees at Delaney Hall murderers and rapists. Reporting and the government\u2019s own data show that most were never convicted of a crime!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When it became known last month that immigrants being held at the detention center in Newark were protesting conditions through a hunger strike, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill demanded access in order to inspect the facility. Federal officials denied her request and declared that she and other Democratic officials in the state should be grateful that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was removing murderers, rapists, and other criminals from the state, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d It is a sentence meant to stand on its own because it avoids the need for examination. Whoever locks away the worst of the worst no longer has to explain who exactly is being locked away. Yet the government\u2019s own data, including internal records reviewed this week, tell a very different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protests outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility. Newark<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the beginning of April, ICE stopped publishing what had previously been regular public reports on the number of people held in its facilities. Counting stopped almost as soon as the numbers began to contradict the narrative. Internal data show that of the 591 people held in Delaney Hall this week, 76, around thirteen percent, had been convicted of a crime and 123, around twenty one percent, had pending charges. On average, detainees had already been held there for about eighty days. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, stated on Friday that it was \u201cworking quickly and overtime to move these foreign nationals from detention facilities to their final destination, home.\u201d Notice the word. What is called home here is deportation, which is the opposite of what most people mean by home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The earlier public report from April 2, before the numbers fell silent, is even clearer. At that time there were 891 people in Delaney Hall, 833 men and 58 women, and fewer than ten percent, specifically 61 men and two women, were classified as criminal. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon intake and regularly afterward, detainees are assigned a security risk classification based on what authorities attribute to them, ranging from low, medium low, medium high, and high, depending on prior convictions, conduct in detention, and \u201cspecial housing concerns.\u201d On April 2, a single detainee was considered high risk, while 789, nearly ninety percent, were classified as low risk. ICE also maintains a separate threat level determined by \u201ccriminality\u201d and by \u201chow recent and how severe the criminal conduct was,\u201d on a scale from one to three, with one representing the most severe. Individuals without convictions are classified as having no threat level. On April 2, six detainees were placed in the highest category and around ninety percent were considered no threat at all. If one is searching for ICE facilities holding a large number of dangerous criminals, then Delaney Hall, like many other facilities, simply does not belong in that category. The answer is that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Communication with detainees is often carried out with laser pointers<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Using data from the Deportation Data Project, which compiles government immigration enforcement data, it was found that among the 844 people held in Delaney Hall on March 10, around twelve percent were convicted offenders, around eighteen percent had pending charges, and around seventy percent were accused only of immigration violations. Of the 99 convicted individuals, not one had been convicted of homicide, sexual assault, or drug trafficking. Around seventy percent had been convicted of minor offenses and only nine of serious crimes. That, according to the agency\u2019s own records, is the worst of the worst. They are overwhelmingly people whose offense consists of being in the country without papers, and among the few with convictions, most involve lesser offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n