Over the course of three decades, the Elizabeth Detention Center has become, for many, a symbol of immigrant injustice in New Jersey. This Friday, Rutgers University will hold a symposium, Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future, that will examine the ways in which the center reflects the larger story of immigration enforcement in the United States. “We can get a view of 30 years of immigration policy by looking at what has happened at Elizabeth in those 30 years,” said Ulla Berg, a professor of Latino and Caribbean studies and anthropology School of Arts and Sciences, and a principal organizer of the symposium. The event, which comes amid a legal battle between New Jersey and the private corporation that runs the center, will feature scholars from across the three Rutgers campuses and beyond, as well as community organizations, journalists, activist groups, and people formerly detained in Elizabeth. In the interview below, Berg, an anthropologist and scholar of mig
Essex County jail: In April it was announced the county would end its practice of housing federal ICE detainees.
More than 30 federal immigration detainees at the Essex County jail were transferred Tuesday to unknown locations, raising concerns from advocates who have long pushed not just for the closure of such facilities but also for the release of those held in them.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency transferred another 16 detainees held in Essex County in the early morning hours, a county official said, leaving the immigration detainee population at the jail at 60. Essex County officials had expected the number to drop since all of the ICE detainees need to leave the building in seven weeks.
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