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  • 1 week ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky

    Five members of the Jersey City Fire Department were hurt Thursday morning battling a blaze that badly damaged a three-story building but was contained before it could spread to adjacent structures on either side, officials said.

  • 1 week ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky |Jelani Gibson

    The code violations were serious. The city of Newark had hit Delaney Hall — the troubled immigrant detention center now the focus of mounting scrutiny in the wake of the escape of four detainees — with multiple safety citations, according to court filings. Those violations, which have since been corrected, included open pipes allowing sewer gas to escape into the building, electrical shock hazards, the cross-contamination of drinking water, and fire rating issues involving a mechanical room.

  • 1 week ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky |Daysi Calavia-Robertson

    Sally Pillay, a board member of the immigrants’ rights group First Friends of New Jersey and New York, said she was able to watch from the parking lot. Standing outside a security gate at Delaney Hall in Newark, she watched as ICE officers took what she called plastic “shackles” from a bus parked near the entrance to the detention center and brought them inside.

  • 1 week ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky

    Attorney-client meetings have been suspended at the immigration detention center in Newark, where four detainees escaped on Thursday, according to the facility’s private operator. “Due to Facility operations, all movement (has) been cancelled until further notice,” stated an email sent Friday morning from an official of the GEO Group of Nashville, Tenn., which owns and operates the Delaney Hall facility. “We kindly ask that you email us next week to check if normal operational hours have resumed.

  • 1 week ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky

    An investigation was continuing Sunday after authorities said police shot and wounded a man in Bergen County suspected in an Uber carjacking Saturday in neighboring Hudson County. The shooting occurred just before 5 p.m. Saturday in North Arlington, Deputy Chief of Detectives Jeff Angermeyer of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

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SteveStrunsky
SteveStrunsky @stevestrunsky
25 Mar 25

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SteveStrunsky
SteveStrunsky @stevestrunsky
9 Feb 25

Read all about the march on https://t.co/b4qAq6kodb https://t.co/fzig36kz0M

SteveStrunsky
SteveStrunsky @stevestrunsky
9 Feb 25

"No tenemos miedo." Several hundred immigrants and their allies marched in Passaic, a majority-LatinX city in northern New Jersey, to show solidarity in the face of a crackdown by ICE. Attention Generation X: one held a sign reading "Deport Elon."