Second Statement to the Union County Board of Commissioners
Administration Building
Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth, New Jersey
July 24, 2025

The last time I was here, I said that the Board had handed the jail off to ICE. That may have sounded misleading or uninformed. Resolutions 290 and 291 aren’t an unrestricted auction to the highest bidder, you might say. They’re a solicitation of interest in a sale relative to a set of constraints. The constraints restrict the potential bidders so as to exclude immigration detention. What more could you ask? Continue reading →