Research from Rutgers Law School finds a big drop in detainers but only small declines in removals. It also finds inconsistencies in how police made changes.
“New Jersey can set a national precedent, just as our neighboring state New York has also introduced companion legislation to end detention and ban these contracts there,” said Amy Torres, executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.
Vineeta Kapahi, a policy analyst for the progressive NJPP, said more than 15,000 immigrants have been ordered deported following court decisions in New Jersey in the last five years, including 4,036 in fiscal 2020.
New Jersey’s population has changed significantly since 2010, but a delay in the census has state lawmakers pushing to run one more election on the decade-old legislative map.