The Trump administration announced Thursday the opening of Delaney Hall for immigrant detainees. Officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said the 1,000-bed facility, located near Newark Airport and the Essex County Jail, will help manage mass deportation efforts by the White House.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reopening a migrant detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. The Delaney Hall Facility has the capacity to hold 1,000 migrants. It's the first migrant detention center to open under the Trump administration.

ICE reopens Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ, with a 1,000-bed capacity to enhance immigration enforcement.

The private owner of the Newark facility said the contract was worth "approximately $1 billion" over 15 years.

Invited speakers include community leaders and families affected by mass deportation who spoke out against the reopening of Delaney Hall.

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka said Tuesday that the private owner of an immigrant detention center lacks city planning board approval and a certificate of occupancy to open, and that his administration will file a lawsuit and padlock the building if necessary to block its opening without the necessary approvals.

Delaney Hall, which previously housed immigrants from 2011 and 2017, will be the first facility to open under President Donald Trump's administration.

Activists, families affected by mass deportations and elected officials all spoke at the rally, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.