NJ Private ICE Facility Contract Ban Struck by Federal Court (2)

States can’t block federal immigration officials from contracting with private detention facilities through laws intended to undercut the private prison industry, a Third Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.

New Jersey’s ban on businesses entering any kind of private detention facility contract in the state unlawfully discriminates against the US Department of Homeland Security, which mainly houses migrants in privately-run facilities and owns no buildings in the state, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said.

New Jersey “dislikes some of the federal government’s immigration tools, so it passed a law with the ‘intent’ to forbid new contracts for civil ...