{"id":664790,"date":"2026-05-25T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:39:10","slug":"delaney-hall-hunger-strike-gov-sherrill-denied-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664790\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaney Hall hunger strike: Gov. Sherrill denied access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@hereswhykevin\/post\/DYxH0USDNWi?xmt=AQG0hLWd4quC61Bcj2ibHwpJi6WnZZn3WTT8Z-mgLAXYrQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> addressing a protester<\/a> upset that Sherrill had not reported to the facility sooner, the governor said she was not allowed access.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been asking for you,\u201d the unidentified protester said to the governor. \u201cThey started their strike on Friday and the first thing they said is we want to talk to Governor Sherrill, and it took you four days to be here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Sherrill explained that her office has been working with federal immigration officials to gain entry to the facility. She committed to continuing to attempt to gain access.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese private detention facilities, which I have long opposed, are not treating people in the humane way we want,\u201d she said.\n  <\/p>\n<p>After her visit, Sherrill said in a statement that her request to access the facility was formally denied earlier in the day \u201craising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view.\u201d She added that she visited the site to hear from advocates and the families of those detained.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I heard from them was heartbreaking,\u201d she said in the statement. \u201cI will continue to hold ICE accountable, and I remain grateful for the work of our federal delegation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The governor expressed concerns about Delaney Hall in a previous statement issued Sunday, calling reports of \u201cunsafe, inhumane, and unconstitutional living conditions\u2026completely unacceptable.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While addressing a protester upset that Sherrill had not reported to the facility sooner, the governor said she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,152193,90155,3,6148,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-664790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-delaney-hall","tag-mikie-sherrill","tag-news","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}