No Crocs or baby onesies - the draconian Delaney Hall dress code ICE uses to deem toddlers ‘too provocative’

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Gabriela Soto's husband has been detained at Delaney Hall, an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, since January. Her weekend visits have become an ordeal: the detention center enforces a strict, inconsistently applied dress code that has rejected her children for wearing Crocs, baby onesies, and other everyday clothing, rules families say are arbitrary and constantly shifting. Visitors report the enforcement causes emotional stress to both detainees and their relatives, while costing families thousands in legal fees and creating barriers to maintaining connections during immigration proceedings.