Posted on 09/07/2018 1:28:41 AM PDT by SMGFan
JERSEY CITY — Hudson County announced a plan Thursday to exit its controversial contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a stunning move that comes after months of protest by liberal activists and immigrant advocates who said the county should not do business with ICE.
The county will ask the nine-member freeholder board to vote for a measure next week that will say the ICE contract cannot go beyond 2020 without additional freeholder consent, but the goal is to end the agreement sooner, the county said in a statement issued Thursday afternoon. The current contract includes no end date.
"Just a month ago, I did not see a path that would allow us to move forward on a path to exit," County Executive Tom DeGise said in the statement. "I'm pleased that after what I have heard from state and federal leaders, I believe we have a consensus on how Hudson County can exit the contract in a responsible manner."
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Controversial or agitated by leftist activists?
#Mobocracy
Atlanta mayor did the same yesterday and RELEASED 522 ICE detainees from jail. Insanity. Doesn’t the 1996 immigration act bar this?
In leftist Big Media Newspeak, “controversial” means “anything hated by leftists”.
Leave them to their own device. Tax payers will leave and the state will become a sh##hole looking for the feds to save them in time. Pull all fed funding
As homeowners and taxpayers there for 4 decades, we LEFT Hudson County last year, as we saw the “handwriting on the wall.”
Life is far better away from the NYC Metro area. Advice to those who remain...get out while you can! Those in charge are steering the bus over the Palisades.
ICE should build a new facility in one of the National Parks in every state. In Jersey, build a facility in Gateway National Park. That will piss off NJ to no end.
Back in the 70s, INS (ICE) would pay a pittance to city and county jails to hold illegals until they could pick them up. The money helped with county budgets so the jailers complied. When that program ended, the counties would let the prisoners free at the end of their incarceration without notifying INS. If we had that program back in effect, we might have more compliance.
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