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The illegal immigrant who claimed to have been nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while buying diapers \u2014 and whose sob story fueled an anti-ICE hunger strike in a detention center \u2014 was actually taken into ICE custody after being arrested for a violent domestic assault, The Daily Wire has learned.<\/p>\n

Read more Anti-ICE Hunger Strike Leader\u2019s Sob Story Unravels As Details Of Domestic Violence Arrest Surface<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabriela Soto claimed that her husband, Martin Soto, 31, of Peru, \u201cwas abducted\u201d by ICE and that he was \u201ca loving father, husband, son, church member, worker\u201d when he was taken to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility. Media outlets ran with the story as the hunger strike carried on, leading to weeks of violent riots outside the facility.<\/p>\n

But a police report and sources who spoke with The Daily Wire tell a very different story.<\/p>\n

Martin Soto \u201cpurposely\u201d caused \u201cbodily injury\u201d to an unnamed female victim \u201cspecifically by using his hands, both opened and closed to strike\u201d her \u201cin her face, causing minor scratches and cuts to her face and neck,\u201d a copy of the police report obtained by the Oversight Project and shared with The Daily Wire reads.<\/p>\n

Soto then allegedly \u201cplaced a hand over\u201d her \u201cmouth so she could not scream for help,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

After her husband\u2019s arrest, Gabriela Soto led protests outside Delaney Hall for days in May and June, claiming that the conditions inside were inhumane and that the stress would cause her to miscarry.<\/p>\n

\u201cMartin has committed no harm,\u201d Gabriela \u2014 whose GoFundMe for her husband that has raised more than $67,000 \u2014 wrote in a column last month.<\/p>\n

Scott Mechkowski, a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project, told The Daily Wire that her entire story unraveled after a police report surfaced showing that Martin was actually arrested by local police for a domestic assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public was told a good man was grabbed by ICE while buying diapers. 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,\u201d Mechkowski, who formerly served as the ICE New York field office deputy director, said.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Wire could not immediately confirm the identity of the assault victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Martin Soto crossed the Arizona border illegally in January 2024 and was processed to be deported immediately under what\u2019s known as expedited removal, law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. He was allowed to stay after he presented a fear of returning to his home country and was released from custody by April 2024.<\/p>\n

Police in Kearny, New Jersey, arrested Soto on February 1, 2026, for simple assault stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire. ICE officers paid a visit to the Hudson County Correctional Center on February 2, whereupon they swiftly took Soto into custody.<\/p>\n

While leading a May protest aimed at blocking ICE vans from driving in and out of the facility, Gabriela told NJ.com that she started the protest \u201cto close Delaney Hall and free every detainee\u201d inside the facility, claiming that her husband was being retaliated against for her activism.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I have a miscarriage because of this pressure, I will sue them,\u201d she said. \u201cI 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 ass guards. He was handcuffed. They were trying to move him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Media outlets largely embraced Martin and Gabriela Soto as sympathetic figures, accepting without question Gabriela\u2019s account of Martin\u2019s arrest. She claimed that she \u201csuddenly got a phone call from a number listed as \u2018prison\/jail’\u201d on February 1, \u201cafter Martin stepped out to get diapers for our 11-month-old son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart dropped,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhen I answered, I was terrified about what had happened. As soon as the call ended, I raced over to Delaney Hall to get some answers. A guard there told me Martin was in \u2018good hands\u2019 and once he was processed, he would be able to see me during visiting hours. I was relieved to hear he was safe, but when I started hearing about the conditions inside Delaney \u2014 rotten food, medical neglect, and more \u2014 I began to doubt the guard\u2019s words.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, at that time, her husband was still in local custody after having been arrested in Kearny for the domestic incident. He was only later moved to Delaney Hall, where inmates who claimed to be \u201cstarving\u201d during their hunger strike were actually purchasing snacks \u2014 including sushi and clams \u2014 from the commissary, as The Daily Wire reported.<\/p>\n

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The illegal immigrant who claimed to have been nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while buying diapers \u2014 and whose sob story fueled an anti-ICE hunger strike in a detention center \u2014 was actually taken into ICE custody after being arrested for a violent domestic assault, The Daily Wire has learned.Gabriela Soto claimed that her husband, Martin Soto, 31, of Peru, \u201cwas abducted\u201d by ICE and that he was \u201ca loving father, husband, son, church member, worker\u201d when he was taken to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility. Media outlets ran with the story as the hunger strike carried on, leading to weeks of violent riots outside the facility.But a police report and sources who spoke with The Daily Wire tell a very different story.Martin Soto \u201cpurposely\u201d caused \u201cbodily injury\u201d to an unnamed female victim \u201cspecifically by using his hands, both opened and closed to strike\u201d her \u201cin her face, causing minor scratches and cuts to her face and neck,\u201d a copy of the police report obtained by the Oversight Project and shared with The Daily Wire reads.Soto then allegedly \u201cplaced a hand over\u201d her \u201cmouth so she could not scream for help,\u201d according to the report.After her husband\u2019s arrest, Gabriela Soto led protests outside Delaney Hall for days in May and June, claiming that the conditions inside were inhumane and that the stress would cause her to miscarry.\u201cMartin has committed no harm,\u201d Gabriela \u2014 whose GoFundMe for her husband that has raised more than $67,000 \u2014 wrote in a column last month.Scott Mechkowski, a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project, told The Daily Wire that her entire story unraveled after a police report surfaced showing that Martin was actually arrested by local police for a domestic assault.\u201cThe public was told a good man was grabbed by ICE while buying diapers. 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,\u201d Mechkowski, who formerly served as the ICE New York field office deputy director, said.The Daily Wire could not immediately confirm the identity of the assault victim.\u201cThis 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,\u201d he added.Martin Soto crossed the Arizona border illegally in January 2024 and was processed to be deported immediately under what\u2019s known as expedited removal, law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. He was allowed to stay after he presented a fear of returning to his home country and was released from custody by April 2024.Police in Kearny, New Jersey, arrested Soto on February 1, 2026, for simple assault stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire. ICE officers paid a visit to the Hudson County Correctional Center on February 2, whereupon they swiftly took Soto into custody.While leading a May protest aimed at blocking ICE vans from driving in and out of the facility, Gabriela told NJ.com that she started the protest \u201cto close Delaney Hall and free every detainee\u201d inside the facility, claiming that her husband was being retaliated against for her activism.\u201cIf I have a miscarriage because of this pressure, I will sue them,\u201d she said. \u201cI 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 ass guards. He was handcuffed. They were trying to move him.\u201dMedia outlets largely embraced Martin and Gabriela Soto as sympathetic figures, accepting without question Gabriela\u2019s account of Martin\u2019s arrest. She claimed that she \u201csuddenly got a phone call from a number listed as \u2018prison\/jail'\u201d on February 1, \u201cafter Martin stepped out to get diapers for our 11-month-old son.\u201d\u201cMy heart dropped,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhen I answered, I was terrified about what had happened. As soon as the call ended, I raced over to Delaney Hall to get some answers. A guard there told me Martin was in \u2018good hands\u2019 and once he was processed, he would be able to see me during visiting hours. I was relieved to hear he was safe, but when I started hearing about the conditions inside Delaney \u2014 rotten food, medical neglect, and more \u2014 I began to doubt the guard\u2019s words.\u201dIn fact, at that time, her husband was still in local custody after having been arrested in Kearny for the domestic incident. He was only later moved to Delaney Hall, where inmates who claimed to be \u201cstarving\u201d during their hunger strike were actually purchasing snacks \u2014 including sushi and clams \u2014 from the commissary, as The Daily Wire reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\nAnti-ICE Hunger Strike Leader\u2019s Sob Story Unravels As Details Of Domestic Violence Arrest Surface - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1643\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anti-ICE Hunger Strike Leader\u2019s Sob Story Unravels As Details Of Domestic Violence Arrest Surface - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The illegal immigrant who claimed to have been nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while buying diapers \u2014 and whose sob story fueled an anti-ICE hunger strike in a detention center \u2014 was actually taken into ICE custody after being arrested for a violent domestic assault, The Daily Wire has learned.Gabriela Soto claimed that her husband, Martin Soto, 31, of Peru, \u201cwas abducted\u201d by ICE and that he was \u201ca loving father, husband, son, church member, worker\u201d when he was taken to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility. 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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,\u201d Mechkowski, who formerly served as the ICE New York field office deputy director, said.The Daily Wire could not immediately confirm the identity of the assault victim.\u201cThis 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,\u201d he added.Martin Soto crossed the Arizona border illegally in January 2024 and was processed to be deported immediately under what\u2019s known as expedited removal, law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire. He was allowed to stay after he presented a fear of returning to his home country and was released from custody by April 2024.Police in Kearny, New Jersey, arrested Soto on February 1, 2026, for simple assault stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire. ICE officers paid a visit to the Hudson County Correctional Center on February 2, whereupon they swiftly took Soto into custody.While leading a May protest aimed at blocking ICE vans from driving in and out of the facility, Gabriela told NJ.com that she started the protest \u201cto close Delaney Hall and free every detainee\u201d inside the facility, claiming that her husband was being retaliated against for her activism.\u201cIf I have a miscarriage because of this pressure, I will sue them,\u201d she said. \u201cI 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 ass guards. He was handcuffed. They were trying to move him.\u201dMedia outlets largely embraced Martin and Gabriela Soto as sympathetic figures, accepting without question Gabriela\u2019s account of Martin\u2019s arrest. She claimed that she \u201csuddenly got a phone call from a number listed as \u2018prison\/jail'\u201d on February 1, \u201cafter Martin stepped out to get diapers for our 11-month-old son.\u201d\u201cMy heart dropped,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhen I answered, I was terrified about what had happened. As soon as the call ended, I raced over to Delaney Hall to get some answers. A guard there told me Martin was in \u2018good hands\u2019 and once he was processed, he would be able to see me during visiting hours. I was relieved to hear he was safe, but when I started hearing about the conditions inside Delaney \u2014 rotten food, medical neglect, and more \u2014 I began to doubt the guard\u2019s words.\u201dIn fact, at that time, her husband was still in local custody after having been arrested in Kearny for the domestic incident. 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