Delaney Hall Closure Act

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Ends immigration detention at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey

This bill would stop all immigration detention at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey. If it becomes law, the Department of Homeland Security would have 90 days to end these operations. It would also cancel any contracts for using the facility as a detention center.

What Would Change

Today, the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, holds people for immigration detention. If this bill becomes law, the Department of Homeland Security would have to stop all immigration detention there within 90 days. It would also end current contracts and be blocked from making new ones for the facility.

Key Provisions

Ends all immigration detention operations at the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, within 90 days of the bill becoming law.
Blocks the Department of Homeland Security from entering new contracts or agreements to use Delaney Hall for immigration detention.
Requires the Department of Homeland Security to terminate any existing contracts for operating Delaney Hall as an immigration detention center.
Limits the Department of Homeland Security's payment liability for terminated contracts to only services already provided.

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Delaney Hall Closure Act

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