New Jersey seeks court order to block ICE detention facility in Roxbury

State officials argue federal agencies bypassed legal review and risk overburdening local infrastructure.

TRENTON, N.J. – The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, alongside Governor Mikie Sherrill and the Township of Roxbury, has filed for a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court to halt a proposed immigration detention facility planned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The legal action, announced Tuesday by Attorney General Jennifer Davenport, seeks to prevent federal authorities from converting a vacant industrial warehouse along Route 46 in Roxbury into a large-scale detention center. State officials say the...