N.J. attorney general announces investigation into detainee deaths at Delaney Hall

“New Jersey has both a legal and a moral duty to stand up for the civil rights of people within our state,” Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said.

New Jersey’s Democratic attorney general opened an investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s controversial detention center at Delaney Hall. Attention has shifted back to Delaney Hall after Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, died in the facility last week. Democrats have rallied

The state attorney general said that her office had issued subpoenas and would investigate whether employees at the migrant detention center had violated civil rights.

The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed the death of a detainee at a controversial immigration center in New Jersey. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.