New Jersey, Roxbury sue to block ICE plan for detention center

By: Colleen O'Dea, Senior Writer and Projects Editor

Outlets: NJ Spotlight

Published: March 20, 2026

Words: 691

Last Updated: 13 hours, 25 minutes ago

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New Jersey and Roxbury Township on Friday filed a joint lawsuit in U.S. District Court seeking to stop the conversion of a warehouse into a 1,500-person immigrant detention facility.

The suit contends that the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement “flouted bedrock federal statutory mandates,” in part by failing to complete an environmental review and to consider state and local input. It calls the plan “illegal.”

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