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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill was denied entry to the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark on Memorial Day 2026, escalating a multi-front legal and political battle over conditions inside the GEO Group-operated center where roughly 900 detainees are held. The denial, amid a detainee hunger strike and violent clashes between protesters and ICE agents, has prompted the state to sue GEO Group for access and raised fundamental questions about whether federal immigration enforcement can categorically exclude state officials from facilities operating within their borders.