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	"author_name": "North New Jersey DSA",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/north-new-jersey-democratic-socialists-of-america",
	"title": "Get ICE of out New Jersey!",
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	"description": "In January 2021, the New Jersey Assembly and Senate released A5207/S3361, which would prohibit “the State, local government agencies, and private detention facilities operating in this State from entering into, renewing, or extending immigration detention agreements.” This bill represents a clear recognition that collaborating in Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) detention is fundamentally immoral, and that it is inappropriate for any New Jersey governmental agency or entity to participate in and/or profit from such institutionalized cruelty. We see the restrictions in this bill as a necessary, but insufficient approach to ending New Jersey’s complicity in ICE detention. We call for the New Jersey Assembly and Senate to dispense with half measures: amend the bill to terminate existing contracts immediately, and end ICE in our state. Contracts with ICE are a moral abomination, with existing contracts lasting up to a decade, and justice delayed is justice denied. Other states have recognized this, with the Maryland state Assembly having just passed a bill stipulating the immediate termination of ICE contracts. New Jersey needs state action because our local officials have failed to uphold democratic accountability. Hudson County’s commissioner (then freeholder) board and executive lied to the public when it renewed its ICE contract in 2018, assuring that the two-year extension was with the specific goal of an “exit.” Instead, at a notorious November 2020 meeting that ran twelve hours and featured over one hundred community members speaking in complete unanimity against further extension of the ICE contract, the commissioners voted 6-3 for a shocking ten-year extension, against the clear will of the community. Similarly, Elberon Development Group, owner of the private Elizabeth Detention Center, vowed in the summer of 2020 to end its lease to the carceral-profiteer firm CoreCivic, before promptly retreating from public view with no follow-up whatsoever, as CoreCivic assures its shareholders they will remain in Elizabeth profiting from caging humans for years to come. These shameful failures demand state intervention. That&#x27;s why we&#x27;re gathering support from the New Jersey communities to show local, state, and federal officials that we stand for immigrant justice! Terrible conditions in the ICE detention centers were further exacerbated by COVID. Immigrants, often detained for arbitrary reasons, endured lack of access to quality food, unsanitary living conditions, and inadequate medical access. This cannot continue, and our state has the power to put an end to it now.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fight-for-immigrant-justice-end-the-ice-detention-centers-now"
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