Today, Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) put out the following statement in response to today's decision to temporarily pause further development of the Roxbury Detention Facility so that the Department of Homeland Security can conduct a proper review of the facility and surrounding community: 

“This temporary pause proves what we already knew - DHS rushed this process without undertaking the proper legal reviews," said Senator Kim. “The people of Roxbury don’t want this massive detention center; they’ve been very clear about that. I will continue pressing Secretary Mullin to abandon this project and will continue to fight attempts by this administration to impose broken immigration policies on New Jersey.”

By way of context from The New Jersey Monitor:

The Trump administration has agreed to delay its plan to convert a Roxbury warehouse into an immigration detention center, a partial win for state and local officials who are seeking to block the proposal entirely.

Under a joint stipulation that came soon before the matter was expected to go before a judge on Tuesday, the federal government agreed to conduct an environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act, which can take months to complete. The initial plan was to open the 470,000-square-foot detention center as soon as next month.

Governor Mikie Sherrill and Attorney General Jennifer Davenport released a statement HERE:

“Since we filed litigation, we’ve been demanding the federal government back off its rushed construction and operation of an immigration detention center in Roxbury. We’ve been clear from the beginning that DHS’s proposed ICE detention facility in Roxbury will harm the community and won’t do anything to make us safer. If DHS conducts a proper analysis, it will discover that this industrial warehouse is no place for a detention center. If DHS continues to plow ahead after conducting its further analysis, we will return to Court to seek relief immediately.”