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Residents Press Middlesex County Commissioners to Pass Immigrant Trust Act Resolution
Summary
Advocates and residents told the Middlesex County Board that the county should adopt a formal resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act, arguing a resolution would strengthen protections beyond the state directive; commissioners said they share the values of the law but did not vote on a resolution at the meeting.
Community advocates and residents urged the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners to adopt a formal resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act (ITA), saying written local approval would strengthen protections for immigrants beyond the state attorney general’s immigrant trust directive (ITD).
Speakers at the board’s public-comment period repeatedly asked commissioners to place the ITA on a future agenda and to vote in favor. Asma, an organizer who said she represents Resuscencia in Accion, New Jersey, told the board that “delaying or refusing to pass an ITA resolution does not keep this county neutral; it actually harms the immigrants,” and recounted intervening during an…
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