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On Saturday, all family visits at ICE’s Delaney Hall detention center were cancelled. Senator Andy Kim made it inside\u2014and found more questions than answers. <\/span>Tom Hudson\/Zuma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Early Saturday morning<\/span>, a woman whose husband is detained at ICE\u2019s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, drove nearly two hours to visit him. She was turned away at the gate.\u00a0<\/p>\n GEO Group\u2014the multibillion-dollar ICE contractor<\/a> that runs Delaney Hall\u2014had cancelled family visitation for the day. She sat on a curb, cried, and drove home.\u00a0Throughout the morning, I saw half-a-dozen women and children arrive: all were told they would not be seeing their loved ones that day. <\/p>\n More than two weeks since detainees began a hunger and labor strike<\/a> inside Delaney Hall\u2014and their allies outside answered with near-daily protests<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s still incredibly difficult to find out what\u2019s going on inside the facility. Often, family members find their visits rescheduled or canceled<\/a>, and journalists have not made it in, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n Members of Congress are allowed by law to conduct unannounced oversight visits<\/a> to ICE facilities like Delaney. But politicians have been turned away, too. New Jersey congresswoman LaMonica McIver is facing assault charges<\/a> after she was arrested alongside Newark mayor Ras Baraka trying to conduct an oversight visit last year. New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill tried to visit the jail in late May<\/a>, and was denied.<\/p>\n