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Jan 14, 2025

100 Organizations Call for Immigrant Protections as Governor Issues Penultimate State of State Address

With less than a week until President Trump’s inauguration, immigration advocates issue letter calling for permanent protections and legal services defense

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

Dec 11, 2024

ACLU Tells Governors, State Attorneys General, Legislators, and Mayors: Build a Firewall for Freedom to Protect Our Rights During the Second Trump Administration

The American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of state affiliates around the country are asking state and local officials to build firewalls for freedom that would protect fundamental rights from likely attacks during the second Trump administration.

Issue Areas: Democracy & Civic Engagement, Immigrants' Rights, Immigration Enforcement & Detention, Abortion Access, Gender, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, LGBTQ+ Rights

Nov 22, 2024

ACLU FOIA Litigation Reveals New Information Regarding ICE’s Plans to Expand Immigration Detention in New Jersey

New information revealed as immigrants’ rights advocates prepare for potential mass deportation and detention program under the incoming Trump administration

Issue Areas: Immigration Enforcement & Detention, Immigrants' Rights, Prisons & Jails

Sep 26, 2024

Immigrant Rights Advocates Applaud the Introduction of the Immigrant Trust Act

ACLU-NJ, The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, and partners celebrate the introduction of the Immigrant Trust Act in the New Jersey Legislature.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights, Immigration Enforcement & Detention

Aug 07, 2024

On Behalf of Farmworker Advocates, ACLU-NJ, ACLU, and Seton Hall Center for Social Justice File Complaint Seeking to End Wage and Overtime Discrimination

The ACLU of New Jersey, the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice today filed a complaint on behalf of CATA – a grassroots organization advocating to improve the working and living conditions of farmworkers.

Issue Areas: Discrimination, Racial & Economic Justice, Immigrants' Rights

Jan 12, 2024

ACLU-NJ Responds to Gov. Murphy’s Signing of Multiple Bills to Advance Racial and Social Justice

Following years of advocacy from the ACLU of New Jersey and community partners, Gov. Murphy today signed multiple pieces of legislation that prioritize racial and social justice.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights, Racial & Economic Justice, Police & Law Enforcement

Dec 07, 2023

NJ Advocacy Organizations Rally at the State House to Press Legislators to Take up the People’s Lame Duck Agenda

An alliance of more than two dozen advocates and community leaders say lawmakers must take action and pass critical legislation to ensure New Jersey is a more welcoming, equitable, accessible, and just state.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights, Racial & Economic Justice, Abortion Access, Voting Rights, Gender, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom, Government Transparency, Language Access & Accessibility, Police & Law Enforcement

Jun 26, 2023

For Final Week of Budget Negotiations, Immigrant Advocates Take over Trenton

New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (NJAIJ), alongside 19 host and sponsor organizations, kicked off the final week of budget negotiations with a Trenton Takeover that brought together over 100 advocates, activists, and artists.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights, Language Access & Accessibility

May 08, 2023

As Committee Hearings Resume, Advocates Demand Action for Immigrant Protections

Across the state, community leaders and organizations are mobilizing support for the Values Act.

Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights

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