The Law and Public Safety Committee of the New Jersey State Senate has advanced a bill that would bar local governments and private prisons from entering into any contracts to house or detain people for civil immigration violations. Read more immigration news
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A state legislative panel advanced a bill Thursday to bar new contracts to house federal immigrant detainees in New Jersey, a step toward ending the practice that has sparked years of protests by immigration advocates.
The bill, sponsored by state Senators Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck and Nia H. Gill of Montclair, passed by a party-line vote, with four Democrats on the Law and Public Safety Committee supporting it and two Republicans opposed.
“The Garden State has long been a landing spot for new immigrants, and it is time we started living up to our values, Weinberg said in a statement. This bill, hopefully, will be part of a new foundation that will add a needed dose of humanity to our immigration policies.
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Pesticide laws fail to protect the most vulnerable people in agriculture: children
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Two new studies highlight the hazardous conditions inherent in farm work, and show the weakness in standards meant to protect kids from developmental disorders and disease.
As a child growing up on his family’s subsistence farm in Puebla, Mexico, Abel Luna loved helping to plant corn and other crops. But in 2001, when he turned 13, his enthusiasm quickly evaporated. That’s when Luna began traveling to New York’s black dirt region to “sell his labor,” working alongside his father in commercial vegetable crop fields. Where once he took pride in “growing [our] own food at [our] own pace,” he now began working 14-hour or longer days from February through November. In addition to a grueling schedule and poor living conditions, Luna remembers “pretty much a lack of every kind of equipment that you need”: gloves, glasses, and masks to protect him from contact with agricult
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A Palestinian woman pleads with an Israeli settler in her garden in an incident captured on video. “You know this is not your house,” she tells the man, who goes by Yakub. The man replies, “If I don’t steal it, someone else is going to steal it. So why are you yelling at me?
The woman s home is in the disputed east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families have been ordered to vacate by an Israeli court to make way for settlers
, an incident that became a flashpoint in the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The al-Kurd family featured in the video has pleaded for international help to stop their displacement, in interviews with Reuters and other news agencies.