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NJ Alliance For Immigrant Justice Calls On State Leadership To “Meet the Historic Momentum” On Immigration Detention May 5, 2021, 11:02 am | in
NJ Alliance For Immigrant Justice Calls On State Leadership To “Meet the Historic Momentum” On Immigration Detention
Newark – Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ) calls on State leadership and legislators to act on A5207/S3361, legislation that would ban new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts or renewals and extensions of existing contracts.
Despite community calls to the Assembly Law & Public Safety Committee who met this morning, A5207 was not included on the agenda. Collectively, this committee’s members represent nearly half a million immigrant New Jerseyans. The call to action follows a whirlwind week as New Jersey made national headlines over local contractors signaling an end, or depopulation, to their ICE detenti
Pleased that Rutgers has plans to come clean | Letters
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
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Divestment from fossil fuel-related companies will help make Rutgers’ actions more in line with its stated goals of protecting the environment, reducing carbon emissions and supporting a healthy community.
As someone served by the New Jersey Teachers Pension and Annuity Fund, I hope that similar divestment actions will be taken there to not only help preserve the planet, but also to move out of clearly losing investments.
Teachers, school staff, and other state workers have no interest, financially or otherwise, in continuing to support Big Oil, coal mining, gas pipeline and other polluting, non-renewable fossil fuel companies from the last century.
arrow Melvin Herrera-Interiano with his partner, Geyde Zapata, and two of their children, William, 12, and Valeria, 5. HANDOUT
Weeks after their father was deported to Honduras in March, Geyde Zapata’s three kids experienced another dramatic change in their lives: their schools in New Jersey shut down.
For 12-year-old William and 5-year-old Valerie, who both have autism, it was overwhelming to be stuck at home without their dad. William stopped showing interest in his remote classes and started getting upset with his mom, acting defensive and crying out for his father.
“My son would hug me and ask, ‘Where is my dad? Why hasn’t he come back?” Zapata, 35, said in Spanish. “It’s been extremely difficult.”