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James Talarico: I want to get back to the kind of capitalism we had in the middle of the 20th century in this country.
I want competition, but it’s got to be fair competition.
We’ve got to take on these monopolies, this consolidation, because again it’s fundamentally anti-capitalist.
![Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: projectninjamedia@proton.me
ICE Admits Use of Roxbury Warehouse, in Defince of Federal Court Order, for Detainee "Processing" ond Training; Project NINJA Colls for Action from NJ ond Roxbury Officials
ROXBURY, NJ - On Tuesday, Oct 13, U.S. Rep Analilia Mejia shared an email from ICE with Gothamist reporter Mike Hayes. In responding to her request for an oversight visit, ICE officials stated they had repeatedly brought detainees to the Roxbury warehouse for "initial processing" (claiming that detainees were not brought inside the warehouse).
At that evening's Roxbury Town Council meeting, Deputy Mayor Mark Crowley read a prepared statement providing their summary of these events, in which he further revealed that, in addition to "initial processing" of detainees, ICE has also been conducting training inside the warehouse for months.
These admissions come during a NJ Office of the Attorney General (OAG) investigation into evidence that ICE has, for months, been violating a federal court order prohibiting their usage of the warehouse.
This court order covers the entire premises: not just inside the building, but the parking lot and even the surrounding woods. All ICE is permitted to do is maintenance and security, nothing more. “While ICE might be claiming not to have brought detainees inside the warehouse, they admitted they violated the court order by using the property for detention operations, and should be sanctioned accordingly," says David Broderick, legal advisor to Project NINJA.
These admissions are only a result of ongoing allied pressure from elected officials like Rep. Mejia, and local citizens like Project NINJA, Eyes on ICE, rapid responder groups, and others. As Rep. Mejia said, "[DHS] only stopped when whistleblowers spoke up."
"The tireless work of local citizens and concerned elected officials is all that's stopping ICE from escalating their lawlessness," says
Birdie Green, co-founder, Project NINJA.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l3k4ivyknlg4yv4as4b6anmt/bafkreiaz2wwehsqbzttw7ro6dkj4warntzq4f4563djvtzx3omh44duvbi)
![Screenshot of the first page of the Federal Register pre-inspection copy of the interim final rule. Text as follows:
This document is scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register on 2026-10-14 and available online at [links]
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
8 CFR Part 214
[CIS No. 2870-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0529]
RIN 1615-AD26
Removing Deference to Prior USCIS Determinations of Eligibility
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS), proposes to remove 8 CFR 214.1(c)(5), which generally
provides that USCIS gives deference to a prior approval involving the same facts when
adjudicating a request to extend a petition for an alien’s employment or stay. This change
would better align DHS regulations with the statute, which places the burden of proving
eligibility for all immigration benefits on the petitioner, applicant, or beneficiary;
strengthen adjudicatory review; and support agency priorities to improve the integrity of
the immigration system and better protect the interests of U.S. workers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidhhetu4m2p4hfrbmnmafzz4fq5yqcq3ws5twtbd5jjgdabrphtwe)
