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Advocates have long called for agreements that allowed federal immigration detainees to be held in New Jersey to end.
In recent months, their efforts seemed to be paying off.
The Bergen County jail has limited how many U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees it receives and housed only 38 on Wednesday. Over in Hudson County, some officials have said they want to get out of their ICE agreement and have capped the number of detainees at the Kearny jail at 50. And Essex County will end its practice of housing ICE detainees at the Newark jail next month.
ICE transferring N J detainees, rather than releasing them
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