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NJ County Fighting Limited Immigration Cooperation With Local Officers

A New Jersey sheriff is appealing the state's decision to block local law enforcement officers from acting as federal immigration officials.

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The Cape May County sheriff has been on an almost three-year-long journey with New Jersey over a Trump administration immigration policy. The administration allowed local officials to check the immigration status of some detainees who were arrested for offenses like traffic violations, effectively deputizing them as immigration officers. New Jersey enacted a policy to block that cooperation and prevent law enforcement officers from transferring undocumented detainees to federal immigration officials in some cases. A federal District Judge sided with the state and dismissed lawsuits against it last year, but the Cape May sheriff’s office has since appealed. NJ.com 

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Kean University Students and Alumni Push to Drop Board Members

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Kean University community members walked through the New Jersey campus to deliver a box with over 1,500 signatures to President Lamont Repollet, all expressing demanding he remove Anne Evans Estabrook and her son Dave Gibbons from the university’s board. It was revealed in May that Estabrook and Gibbons, through Elberon Development Group, leased their Elizabeth, New Jersey property to CoreCivic. The building on this property is the Elizabeth Detention Center, which holds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees. Elberon announced it will end its relationship with the CoreCivic, but the Kean community felt that this was not enough since the university has the second highest amount of undocumented students in the state. Read more at Documented. 

Resource List: Pro-Bono Legal Immigration Representation in New York

📍 Documented Original Immigration cases can be financially taxing and detrimental to individuals involved. Fees are estimated to be between $370 and $12,000 depending on the nature of the case, not including the costs of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service applications. That’s why Documented created a list of Pro-Bono Lawyers And Legal Immigration. Pro bono means “for the public good,” and mainly refers to services performed by a professional for free or at a lower cost. This means that pro-bono lawyers will work for the “public good” for free or at an affordable price. Read more at Documented.

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