The report of the ICE arrests was blasted by the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, which has been advocating for the early release.
Unauthorized immigrants who want new driver's licenses from New Jersey may first have to get a letter of ineligibility from the Social Security Administration.
New Jersey is in court fighting a plan to subtract estimates of immigrants not legally in the U.S. from the totals used to apportion the House after the census.
A bill directs state to spend $35 million to provide up to $1,000 in cash assistance to immigrants who use an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number.
Advocacy groups and nonprofits in New Jersey are calling on the public to support relief initiatives that aim to help New Jersey's most vulnerable workers who can't access government assistance during this pandemic, including unauthorized immigrants.
Young immigrants protected by the DACA policy say the Supreme Court case another all-encompassing fear that shadows them daily, along with the coronavirus.
Federal immigration authorities are looking for more than a dozen people who had been previously arrested by local police and released from county jails.