The migrant-hunting business begins at Delaney Hall, the first detention center of the Trump era
Border czar Tom Homan says at least 100,000 beds are needed to fulfill the president’s dream of mass deportations. The first facility will open in New Jersey despite protests
On Doremus Avenue, the world is filled with metal, so industrial and rusty it’s frightening. Above the road stretches the gray sky of Newark, in Essex County, New Jersey, crisscrossed every few minutes by planes arriving in Newark Liberty International Airport, the only spot in the state known to tourists, who pack their bags and land independently in Manhattan. This scene makes sense in the geographical calculations of politicians and investors: with the first immigration detention center of the Trump era set to open on Doremus Avenue in a few months, the airport to transport future deportees is less than two miles away — just a 15-minute bus ride, a walk, a hop away.
