Delaney Hall hunger strike ends

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Advocates for detainees at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall said they have effectively ended the hunger and labor strike that won the inmates national attention and prompted a month of protests outside the facility.

The strike didn’t end because conditions improved, the advocates said, but because “intimidation tactics” inside the jail, like moving protesting detainees to other states, crushed the strike.

“These transfers have had devastating consequences,” said Sally Pillay, an advocate with Eyes on ICE who has spent months outside of the migrant jail aiding families of detainees. “We know that these facilities are in remote locations where people do not have access to their lawyers, to their families, and their support networks.”

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Courts: The Trump administration illegally overhauled a federal computer program in its hunt for noncitizen voters, a judge ruled Monday in a ruling that sharply criticized federal officials for violating the privacy of millions of Americans. “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

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