A ‘tear-jerking’ story spread by an illegal alien’s wife that caused an anti-ICE hunger strike in Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center in New Jersey, has been completely debunked. And the actual story is chilling.
Several outlets previously reported that 31-year-old Peruvian national Martin Soto had been arrested by ICE agents on February 1 while buying diapers for his child. The source for the claims was Martin’s wife, Gabriela.
Gabriela Soto led a hunger strike in May protesting the alleged horrors inside the Newark facility. She claimed that detainees were served meals contaminated with worms and mold.
She also said detainees suffered from gas fumes, inadequate sanitation, and poor medical care.
Gabriela Soto revealed to NJ.com that her ultimate goal was to free her husband and every other detainee.
“If I have a miscarriage because of this pressure, I will sue them,” she said. “I am tired of them controlling the situation. He is in that van. I saw him resisting to get in the van; they forced him in there, two big a** guards.
“He was handcuffed. They were trying to move him.”
The demonstration later spread into widespread protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics and the Trump Administration’s deportation policies.
Gabriela Soto also set up a GoFundMe Account to raise money for her family while her husband was in custody.
But now The Daily Wire’s Jennie Taer has revealed that the story Gariela Soto spread was nothing but a dangerous lie.
The real reason for her husband’s detainment is far more sinister. It turns out that Martin Soto was actually arrested for a horrific domestic assault on another woman.
More from The Daily Wire:
Martin Soto “purposely” caused “bodily injury” to an unnamed female victim, specifically by using his hands, both opened and closed to strike” her in her face, causing minor scratches and cuts to her face and neck,” a copy of the police report obtained by the Oversight Project and shared with The Daily Wire reads.
Soto then allegedly placed a hand over her mouth so she could not scream for help.
“The public was told a good man was grabbed by ICE while buying diapers, Scott Mechkowski, a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project, told Taer. “The record says he was arrested by Kearny police, handed to Hudson County, taken into ICE custody, and detained at Delaney Hall while charged with assaulting the very woman who then made him a headline.”
“This is the pattern: a sympathetic claim built to go viral, while the facts sit unread in a file. Delaney Hall was inspected and cleared, its officers branded jailers of the innocent on stories that collapse the moment you check the record. This is one example; there are many,” he continued.
