United States Rep. Dan Goldman (D, NY-10) is speaking exclusively with News 12 after a visit to survey the conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainment facility at the Metropolitan Detention Center.<\/p>\n
ICE first started housing detainees at the Sunset Park, Brooklyn prison in June of 2025, and since then, Goldman has now been inside four different times.<\/p>\n
“It’s really important for (the detainees) to see that a member of Congress is coming to make sure they’re OK – that there are people in the government who are worried about them,” he told News 12.<\/p>\n
According to Goldman, ICE currently has 196 people inside, and each has a separate cell with an open space in the middle.<\/p>\n
“Even though they are not criminal defendants, they are being held in a criminal jail,” he said, “and the difference with the immigration detainees is they are free to roam.”<\/p>\n
Still, Goldman claims when he first started visiting, many of the other restrictions for criminal detainees were also being placed on the immigration detainees.<\/p>\n
“I pushed strongly for them to make sure that they are getting medical care, access to phones, family, medical care, etcetera,” he explains.<\/p>\n
After Wednesday’s visit, he was happy to report one man he met was now finally getting treatment for a heart issue, while ICE had put a full-time supervisor in the immigration wing, helping improve response time to issues.<\/p>\n
Goldman also says that while there were some complaints about the showers during his last visit in May, this time, the conditions seemed fine for what they were.<\/p>\n
He tells News 12 his main ask was that the paperwork for things like family visits and tracking immigration court cases be made more easily accessible – something he says ICE agreed to immediately.<\/p>\n
“The persistent oversight keeps them on their toes,” he said. “They know that they can say whatever they want to say to us, but because we have a process where we get release forms, and we can speak to inmates, we’re going to find out what’s going on, and they are improving.”<\/p>\n
Goldman lost his primary election in June, meaning he will be out of office at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
A campaign spokesperson for Brad Lander, who defeated him and is the Democratic nominee for the seat, says he plans to make similar visits.<\/p>\n
News 12 also reached out to Republican nominee Jennifer Moore but has not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States Rep. Dan Goldman (D, NY-10) is speaking exclusively with News 12 after a visit to survey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-314905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}