Rare look inside new ICE detention center where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Acting ICE director Todd Lyons gave CBS News its own guided tour this week of Delaney Hall - a two-story, 1,000-bed facility, now among the largest detention centers in the Northeast. ICE and the GEO Group, the facility's owner, reached a $1 billion, 15-year deal this year to open the detention center, expanding their holding capacity along the East Coast amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
48% : "I think as you see more cooperation with ICE, where we do arrest more criminal aliens in the street you'll see the population here rise.
43% : Baraka alleges the GEO Group, which struck an agreement with ICE to open the facility as a detention center, did not obtain proper permits and blocked fire, electrical and plumbing inspections.
42% : Delaney Hall was operating as a halfway house for the past few years before ICE announced in February that it would be reestablished as a federal immigration processing and detention center -- the first to open under President Trump's second term.
35% : "I don't think people should be making profit off of prison, right, and I think there needs to be public oversight," Baraka told CBS News.
18% : In a statement provided to CBS News New York, the GEO Group denied Baraka's allegations and said it had valid permits, adding the recent criticism is "another unfortunate example of a politicized campaign by sanctuary city and open borders politicians in New Jersey to interfere with the federal government's efforts to arrest, detain, and deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens." Since President Trump took office, federal agents have arrested nearly 2,000 illegal migrants in the Newark area, six times the number picked up during the same time period in former President Biden's first year.

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