"In a win for immigration advocates, New Jersey lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to stop private and public entities from making deals with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to jail immigrants. Immigration advocates hoped shutting down the multi-million-dollar contracts would prompt ICE to release the detainees to their families. But the proposed law, which now awaits Governor Phil Murphy’s signature, comes as the Biden Administration acts swiftly to move some detainees to detention facilities in other states, taking them farther away from relatives and their attorneys.

“People who are detained by ICE are taken without any notice to them or their attorneys. They’re not told where they’re going. They’re not told if they’re being put on a plane and being deported.” Detainees who were transferred said they have had trouble maintaining contact with their attorneys and continuing the medical treatment they received at New Jersey facilities.

Shackled at the wrists and ankles, they’re flown to detention centers without all of their personal items, like legal paperwork they need to fight their deportation cases. One lawyer lost touch with a client for two weeks after a transfer. Others haven’t gotten the medication they need at the new facilities."

https://gothamist.com/news/is-this-the-end-of-local-ice-detention-thats-immigrants-hopeand-fear