Former state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg gathered a group of her senior neighbors to rally outside Delaney Hall.

They were protesting conditions at the detention center for undocumented immigrants.

NEWARK — Visitors waited outside the front gate of Delaney Hall, a privately operated detention center under contract with the federal government to house allegedly undocumented migrants, on a surprisingly balmy October afternoon.

The line stretched alongside the barbed-wire fence, weaving down a compact asphalt lot toward the sidewalk, where tables displayed a buffet of food, water and soda and a makeshift altar of Latin American votives.

But not every day is so temperate for the visitors waiting in the hope they'll be permitted entry into the facility where their loved ones det

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