EXCLUSIVE: Revenue figures from the Delaney Hall ICE detention center’s commissary may undercut Democrats’ claims that a reported "hunger strike" is rippling through the Newark facility, as commissary spending surged during the reported strike period.A slew of Democrats have toured the facility and reported allegedly dire conditions and rotten food, but a source familiar with Delaney Hall’s operations disputed their claims.The source said Delaney Hall’s commissary — where inmates can purchase snacks and sundries — saw its revenue triple during the time period characterized by a hunger strike.When asked about the claim, the Department of Homeland Security backed it up and shared revenue data with Fox News Digital that supported the argument that detainees continued purchasing substantial amounts of food from the commissary during the reported hunger strike period.DAVID MARCUS: 5 BLATANT LIES DEMOCRATS ARE SPREADING ABOUT DELANEY HALL AND ICEProtestors, politicians and ICE agents gather outside Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026.(Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)Regional news outlets like Gothamist reported that men housed at Delaney Hall had begun a hunger and labor strike around May 23.Soon after, Sen.
Andy Kim, D-N.J., went to the center, echoed those reports and was later caught in pepper-spray crossfire when outside agitators sparred with ICE agents guarding the entrance.Other lawmakers like Reps.Robert Menendez Jr.
and Bonnie Watson-Coleman, D-N.J., made similar assertions.On Thursday, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital the claims have been a "hoax" and provided data that lined up with what the source familiar had said.On May 26, Delaney Hall housed 724 individuals and its commissary took in $11,498 in revenue for the prior week.As the hunger strike period progressed, that number shot up week over week.FOX NEWS GOES INSIDE NEW JERSEY ICE FACILITY STORMED BY DEMOCRATSOn June 1, the population inside h...