Resistencia en Accion NJ Presser Responds to Attack on Auto Shop – Commentary on Sherrill’s ICE Responses
Asma Elhuni, a coordinator of Community Responders of Resistencia en Accion NJ was asked by the Princetonian to respond to a set of proposals from the Sherrill Administration to respond to the escalatding violence from ICE against residents and citizens of NJ including the creation ofg a video submit portal purportedly for NJ citizens and residents to report potential crimes by ICE and the prohibition of use of NJ state property doe ICE operations for parking or staging of operations.
We are tired of politicians thinking they know what’s best for our communities and continually missing the mark. Resistencia supports limiting ICE’s use of state property; our public institutions should not be complicit in deportation efforts that tear families apart. But the Governor has far greater authority than this.
The new portal is performative at best and harmful at worst, because it could encourage people to upload videos of vulnerable or at-risk individuals without their consent, potentially exposing them to even greater danger. That is not protection. Real leadership means enforceable data privacy safeguards, real due process protections, and a refusal to equate charges with guilt. Immigrant communities deserve structural protections , not symbolic gestures.
-Asma Elhuni, Resistencia En Accion NJ Organizer
Please attend the press conference Tuesday, February 24, 10 am, Agudo’s Repair Shop. 102 S. Olden Av., Trenton NJ 08409
Learn from victims and witnesses what transpired when ICE brutalized workers, kidnapping 3 from their work responsibilies at a Trenton Auto repair facility. ICE agents blocked the security video device of the facility in an attempt to cover up their crimes. Learn from local immigrant rights supporters including of Resistencia en Accion NJ about what can be done about the rising tide of state sponsored domestic terrorist violence being carried out by ICE and other federal agents.
Stay tuned to FightBackBetter – we hope to have a video report of the press conference.
