NJ, Roxbury sue Trump administration to halt new ICE facility

The Roxbury warehouse slated for a new ICE detention center is “a logistics center fit for Amazon Prime packages, not people,” the new lawsuit says.

By: Sophie Nieto-Munoz

Outlets: New Jersey Monitor

Published: March 20, 2026

Words: 261

Last Updated: 21 hours, 34 minutes ago

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New Jersey and Roxbury officials are suing the Trump administration to stop it from converting a sprawling warehouse in the Morris County town into a large-scale immigrant detention center.

The 67-page complaint filed Friday in federal court accuses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of violating four federal laws in a rush to purchase and convert the 470,000 square-foot warehouse into …

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