NJ Detention Centers; COVID-19 Vaccinations; Remain in Mexico Policy : Immigration Law Blog

New Jersey Governor Strikes to Ban Future ICE Detention Facilities

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a invoice that bans state and county governments from coming into or renewing present contracts to accommodate immigrants in detention facilities. Whereas the invoice will enable present detentions at each the Bergen and Hudson county prisons for the remainders of the prevailing agreements, county officers indicated instantly after the regulation’s passage that it could be slowing down and ultimately ending, immigrant detention.

New Jersey is house to 4 places that housed ICE detainees for a number of years – county jails in Hudson, Bergen, and Essex and a non-public facility in Elizabeth. Simply final yr, Hudson County had renewed its contract for an extra ten years, with as much as 50 immigrants detained at any given time. Bergen County at the moment homes below 30 people in immigration detention facilities, and the county sheriff has indicated that the quantity will steadily decline as a result of persons are being launched or moved. They’re not accepting new detainees. Essex County not has any immigrant detainees.

With the tip of immigration detention in sight, immigration advocates have turned to assist the few people who stay. The New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Amy Torres, issued a press release, saying, “Now that this regulation safeguards our future, we’re in a position to flip with renewed vigor to the battle to free everybody at the moment held in immigrant detention and name for an finish to the cruelties of the jail industrial complicated.”

Inexperienced Card Candidates Should Have COVID-19 Vaccine

Just lately, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (“CDC”) introduced that candidates for everlasting residence in the US, higher often known as “inexperienced playing cards,” should present proof of vaccination in opposition to COVID-19 earlier than showing for his or her required immigration medical examination. Inexperienced card purposes are already required to indicate proof of sure vaccinations, corresponding to mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus, and others. This new rule is predicted to take impact on October 1.

The rule applies to these making use of for a inexperienced card inside the US and immigrant visa candidates making use of at U.S. embassies and consulates around the globe. Those that are partially vaccinated on the time of the medical examination should return at a later date as soon as absolutely vaccinated.

The one exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement are for individuals who are too younger to obtain the vaccine, present medical circumstances that stop vaccination, non secular exemptions, or the vaccine shouldn’t be available of their area. Inexperienced card candidates who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine will likely be discovered inadmissible to the US.

Supreme Courtroom Choice on Stay in Mexico Coverage

On Wednesday, the US Supreme Courtroom in a 6-3 majority determination, refused to dam a decrease court docket ruling that ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the Stay in Mexico Coverage, formally often known as the Migrant Safety Protocols, first launched by Former President Trump. The choice was solely a single paragraph, providing little clarification for its determination.

The coverage requires 1000’s of asylum seekers on the U.S. border to remain in Mexico as their asylum claims are adjudicated in immigrant courts. President Biden then suspended this system upon his inauguration and the Division of Homeland Safety ended it in June.

As a result of this ruling is barely short-term whereas the federal courts contemplate all arguments relating to the coverage, the Division of Homeland Safety has acknowledged it could proceed to problem the underlying order and coverage.

The Norris McLaughlin Immigration Regulation Weblog, “Immigration Issues,” will proceed to comply with this case because it develops.

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