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New Jersey would prohibit local jails from signing new contracts to house federal immigration detainees under legislation that advanced Tuesday in Trenton.
The state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee voted 9-3 to approve the bill, which now must go to the full Senate for a vote. On Monday, the state Assembly passed the measure, 46-24.
Immigrant advocates had launched a vigorous campaign urging legislators to support the bill, after years of protesting local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Trump administration s crackdown.
“Today’s committee vote sends a clear message: whether at the local level or in the halls of Trenton, the state’s doors are closing to ICE,” Amy Torres, executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, said in a statement.
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Friendly Fire: Biden’s speech, Joe D’s jail, and Gottheimer s bête noire
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Jersey political insiders: On the left, Julie Roginsky, a career Democratic strategist and TV commentator; on the right, Michael DuHaime, a Republican strategist and public affairs executive.
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, editorial page editor of The Star-Ledger.
Q. Let’s talk about President Biden’s speech: What explains the grand scope of his ambitions in such a divided time?
Mike: Biden is taking advantage of the country’s recent disgust with President Trump to go well beyond what’s needed financially to rebound from the pandemic. Biden is enacting an expensive big government spend that would make FDR and LBJ blush. Americans are so focused on the pandemic that they can’t see the money flying out of the pockets of their children and grandchildren who will be stuck with the bill.