We protest at homes because ICE is terrorizing people | Opinion
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
Jake Ephros, a Jersey City-based organizer with the North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America, says Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise attempts to obscure the issue at the jail with crackdowns like Tuesday’s arrests of protesters and by hiding behind the incoming Biden administration. (Photo by Micah Jay.)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pays Hudson County to incarcerate our friends, loved ones and neighbors. Eleven people associated with the facility have died since 2017. Five of those 11 are staff members, including a corrections officer, who died of COVID-19. Meanwhile, ICE also pays Bergen County, where nine men have been holding a courageous hunger strike for weeks to protest their detention. There’s also concern in Essex County, where notorious jail conditions have been met with years of community outrage, and at the
Protesters hold park vigil on second night of county executive’s restraining order
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Protesters chose not to defy a restraining order banning them from protesting outside Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise’s home Wednesday night, and instead held a small vigil at a nearby park in honor of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees.
Four protesters were arrested Tuesday night after county sheriff’s officers informed them of the restraining order and told them to disperse, according to video footage and interviews with protesters. For days they had been protesting outside DeGise’s home, calling on him to void a contract that will allow ICE to continue detaining immigrants at the county jail.
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