The Democratic mayor, who has been critical of the newly opened facility over what he says is a lack of permits to build and reopen, tried to join a congressional delegation on a scheduled visit.
Karim Daoud has been detained at the Elizabeth ICE detention center since March 12 when he went to a Newark office to pick up documents to fulfill his work authorization requirement.
Research from Rutgers Law School finds a big drop in detainers but only small declines in removals. It also finds inconsistencies in how police made changes.
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.
Jersey Shore Assemblyman Ron Dancer has introduced legislation requiring anyone convicted of fleeing sex crime charges in foreign countries to register under Megan's law.