The Hudson County Sheriff’s Office formally released guidance on how their officers will interact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after at incident at the county courthouse.
“We have accounts from county employees suggesting that some officers may have covered up ICE activity on county property. This is just one week after the county resolution and executive order were passed banning ICE from county property,” said Jersey City resident Courtney Walker at Thursday’s board of commissioners meeting.
She referenced an executive order last month by Hudson County Executive Craig Guy, as well as a resolution from the commissioners, banning ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents from operating on county property.
In the wake of the executive order, some residents and immigrant advocates have been lambasting the move, as we all other subsequent actions, as delayed and unenforceable…