To: The New Jersey State House, The New Jersey State Senate, and Governor Phil Murphy

Make New Jersey a Sanctuary State: protect law-abiding immigrants from deportation

Enact legislation that stops ICE from detaining and deporting our immigrant neighbors and tearing their families apart

Why is this important?

Rather than targeting criminals, as promised, Trump has empowered ICE to aggressively stalk and detain any law-abiding hard-working immigrant. Tearing families apart is not a humane immigration policy. In addition to being cruel, it amounts to racial profiling, and makes us less safe by discouraging our immigrant neighbors from reporting crime and fully engaging in our communities because of fear of deportation. NJ should follow California's lead and be a Sanctuary State.