In New Jersey, municipalities are still constitutionally required to provide their “fair share” of affordable housing, but there is no longer any elected or state-level body responsible for defining what that means, or for helping to ensure the standard is followed.
On Saturday, demonstrators blocked the entrance to the Hudson County Correctional Facility for hours to get their message across.
At ICE’s Whim: Detained Immigrants Speak Out on Brutal Transfers
Jersey detainees were recently scattered across the country, as far away as Louisiana and Nevada.
Inside ICE’s Immigrant Transfer Roulette
ICE detainees held in Jersey jails are being scattered around the country and rarely know in advance where they are going.
“I’m going to be a fighter for the people,” says the former legislative staffer who broke with the Jersey machine early in her career and is now running to replace Donald Payne Jr. who inherited his congressional seat from his father 10 years ago.