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Part 1 (Video ID: x9XDnVyUmkg):
- 00:00:09: Meeting Commences: Roll Call and Fire Official Recognition
- 00:00:43: Honoring Fire Official Mike Pell's Remarkable 33-Year Career
- 00:03:08: Pledge of Allegiance and Fire Official's Farewell Speech
- 00:04:56: Council Members Express Gratitude to Retiring Fire Official
- 00:13:02: Resolution: Mark Sylvester Appointed Fire Prevention Bureau Official
- 00:14:34: Approval of Meeting Minutes From May 12th and 19th
- 00:15:21: Public Comment: Bonnie Rosen on Community Communication
- 00:16:41: Public Comment: Suzanne Oliver on Website Updates
- 00:17:38: Public Comment: Kaitlyn on ICE Detention Facility Concerns
- 00:20:41: Council Reports: Mayor's Conference and Memorial Day Ceremony
- 00:33:03: Facility Update, Proposed Ordinance, and Adoption of Resolutions
- 00:36:36: Public Comment: Update on Lawsuit and Roxbury Newsletter
- 00:40:06: Public Comment: Suzanne, Delaney Hall Conditions and Zoning
- 00:43:12: Public Comment: Corey, Personal Experiences at Delaney Hall
- 00:45:56: Public Comment: William, ICE Agreement and Town's Actions
- 00:49:50: Public Comment: Patrick Gallagher, Recommended ICE Ordinances
- 01:05:38: Public Comment: Diana May, Communication and Community Concern
- 01:08:19: Public Comment: Bonnie Randa, Conditions inside ICE detention facility
- 01:11:26: Public Comment: Sierra, Denied Treatment and Physical Abuse
- 01:14:31: Public Comment: Wodri, the importance of communication
- 01:17:50: Public Comment: A resident of Chesterfield about ICE actions
- 01:20:41: Public Comment: Bridget Frank, Concentration camps and what to do


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as follows. On December 31st, 2025, notice was emailed in fact recorded west and published in record. Notice also remain posted throughout the year on the bullet board in the main hallway of the municipal building. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> Council here. Council

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>> here. >> Deputy Mayor Crowley >> here. Council >> here >> you might have noticed that we went a little out of order in the agenda today. Tonight I have the honor of opening this meeting by recognizing the retirement of

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a truly dedicated public servant and remarkable member of the Robury Township family. After 33 years of service to our community, Roxbury Township Fire Official Mike Pel walked out of town hall on Friday, May 15th for his final

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time as a township employee. While his official service may be While his official service may be coming to an end, the impact has made he's made on this community will last generations. Mike began his career serving Roxbury

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Township in 1993 and over the course of more than three decades has responded to over 4,000 fire calls and conducted 322 structure fire investigations. Throughout his career, he has exemplified courage, professionalism, and an unwavering commitment to

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protecting the residents of Roberry Township. His service has been recognized time and time again. In 2000, he was he received the outstanding bravery and heroic efforts award for rescuing two infants from a structure fire. In 2012, he was honored for his

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exceptional efforts during supertorm Sandy. In 2014, he received a life-saving award. And in 2023, the township recognized the Roxbury Township Fire Prevention Bureau Unit for achieving no fire related fatalities in

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Roxberry from 2000 through 2023. an extraordinary accomplishment that speaks volumes about Mike's leadership and dedication. In addition to his service here in Roxbury, Mike was named firefighter of the year company to Netcon Hilltop and received the Byron Township Life Saving

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award in 2023. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Mike's commitment to helping others extend deeply into the community. In 2022, Mike and his wife Jackie founded 403 Reasons to Run Foundation, an organizations dedicated

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to honoring and supporting first responders, their family, and members of the community facing life-changing hardships and challenges, Mike. There are simply not enough words to fully express the gratitude this community feels for you

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and your decades of service, sacrifice, and leadership. On behalf of the township council, our residents, and the entire grateful community, thank you for everything you have done in Roxbury Township. Please join me in thanking Fire Official Mike Pell for his

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extraordinary service. Please come up and lead us in the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. Mike, anything you'd like to say? >> Oh, Lord. >> I really don't have anything prepared to say. Um, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve the town of Roxberry. As you know, it's the greatest one of

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the greatest communities we have. Um, to work alongside the best fire department I know that we have and the fire prevention bureau. And I'm I hope I am leaving it in a little better place than when I started. and I I'm full capable hands that the next fire official and

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the crew that we have will do the same thing. Um I couldn't have done it all without the support of the mayor, the council, the public, township managers, um my wife and my wife's my family. Um

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my friends that are here and and all the fire chiefs, they're they're my Roxberry family. They'll always be my Roxberry family. I'm not going to, you know, go away. You always be able to touch me. I just want to say thank you for this. I really appreciate it. >> Thank you, Mike.

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I know you and I, we've only been an official capacity for about four years now. Um, you have been in my life since I was a teenager and I thank you and Jackie for being a part of my life and uh making it better. So, thank you. Is

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anyone else on council mayor? Mike, seeing firsthand, you know, the fire prevention units and your staff and the things that you've done over the years just fantastic. I think with your leadership uh and explaining to the public, explaining to me things that I

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wouldn't know and and the way that you were able to do them and make change, I think is fantastic. I wish you the best. >> Thank you, >> Mike. Thank you from the bottom of my of my heart. One of those two infants that

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he rescued just recently got engaged. >> Thank you for always supporting me and my family. >> Thank you. I've been here for quite some time and I started as council when I was elected in

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99 and you said that on a planning board and you've been here for forever. You really have. You're one of the few people that I I've seen since the beginning of my career here uh at Roxbury Township. Uh you were the go-to

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guy, Mike. You know, you're always a very very approachable man. Um always did outstanding work for the community and we're all very proud of you, Mike. We really are. You be very very hard uh replace. Um and you know, the work

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you've done for this community is just outstanding. So you know, please uh come back and visit us at any time. >> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Hey Mike, how many years

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you know you've done a great job. We've had a very difficult position at times chang because of your leadership fire prevention we've been able to make that seamless along with our great chiefs

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here tonight without strengthen the bond between not only fire accomplish. >> Thanks. >> But the work you guys do in the community, you found

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I don't know how many people know that the money that you raise help is just extraordinary. So I want to wish you all the best. Thank you. >> Pretty much like you're going to be

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sorely missed. >> Thank you for your service. You're welcome. >> Mike, I really appreciate you. Welcome me. Uh you you're so levelheaded and you don't stress and you really taught me the Roxberry way. This is my first time

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dealing with a volunteer fire department and Um, you talked to me about the pros and cons. You've advocated for the men and women in the fire department. Uh, advocated for updated equipment. I'm sorry you're not going to see the new uh

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fire officer vehicle that is uh on order. >> Well, I'll see it. I'll be back. >> Well, you'll see it. I don't know. You can probably still, you know, do a good arm wrestle against Mark over there. >> Give me a ride. I think >> we'll we'll see. But I also want to thank Jackie because none of this

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happens in public service. Um Jackie, thank you. Um you know, often times it's our family who has to deal with being gone all the time. And so I just want to make sure I took the time to thank you for

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>> your dedicated service to Roxberry Township through Mike. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, >> Madam Clerk. >> Mike, thank you for everything and how manager picked up that Jackie is the backbone as well in such a short

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period of time because thank you for everything you're going to >> always your knowledge firefighting, fire safety and education was second to none. And whenever there

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was an issue that I had a question about and you were involved, I didn't have a second thought for the world because I knew one and understand is

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and I knew that it pushed him and I had to witness your testimony. So, congratulations to you. You've had a great career,

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but stay involved. You know, when you're at the top of the mountain, it's great to be there. You're there in your profession. You're there. But train those younger Make sure that they understand responsibility

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that's on their shoulders because you have done it respect service and you receive the respect back from your peers. So, thank you and good luck.

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>> Thank you. >> Absolutely. Come to the front. >> Sorry. Um, most of the people in this room know Mike, right? Uh, everyone has said pretty much taken something everything that we were going to say or myself was

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going to say, but uh, selflessness. That's what Mike has. Uh, I've been in the fire service a long time. Met a long time ago. It's really sad to see him go. Mark I know is gonna fill those shoes because they're big

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shoes to fill, but he's a big guy. So, handle it. Um, I'm getting choked up, Mike, because it's other than just the working relationship, we've had a very good family bond relationship and uh we're going to miss you real dearly. So,

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stay around and there's always for radius for fire. >> We're further than that. >> I'm moving. Congratulations. >> For sale signs going up >> and um I'll see you when I'm 58. I got

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>> we'll see each other on the golf course this summer. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Chief. So, everybody said very many the apps. >> Thank you guys. Thank you. >> Item four, presentations, award, etc.

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I'm going to continue to dissect this agenda. I'm going to pull up resolution 20126-125, a resolution appointing Mark Sylvester as Official Township of Roxberry Fire Prevention Bureau effective May 15,

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2026. >> Any discussion? >> I just want to say just to go and experience roll call. >> Council. >> Yes. and welcome. >> Council,

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>> yes. >> Deputy Mayor Crowley. >> Yes. And welcome. >> Councilman Dippo. >> Yes. >> Councilman Hall. >> Yes. >> Councilman Riley. >> Yes. >> Mayor Pat. >> Yes. Congratulations. to stand up. >> Moving on to item five, approval of

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minutes May 12th, 2026 and May 19th. Any further discussion? >> Roll. >> Yes. >> One of them. Which one was >> Mayor Crowley?

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>> Yes. >> Council. Yes. >> Council Hall. >> Yes. >> Council Riley. >> Yes. >> Mayor Pat. >> Yes. For May 12th, no for May 19th >> or abstain from May 19th, I'm sorry.

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>> All right. This brings us to our first public portion. Does anybody in the public wish to be heard on township business? Please come to the microphone. State your name and address. Uh three minutes and one appearance for >> uh Bonnie Rosen Vand. Um was at your

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guys community meeting last week as well as the landing one. I want to commend you guys for having those meetings. Number one. Um number two, I want to commend you guys for um allowing folks to ask questions and answering as best

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you could. One important recommendation. I know you guys don't want the community necessarily knowing what's going on to the largest extent. you share it here with us, but the entire community to

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know what's going on with the um detention facility, but I would strongly recommend you share it with the community. Um I think that helps you guys as leaders of people not coming back and saying, "Why didn't you tell us?" Not to mention the fact that um

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I've heard from a number of people saying, "I thought it was resolved." And also please um leaders. Um, and I'm not criticizing anybody. I'm saying please share it with the community. Please, so

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that the community knows. Um, Suzanne Oliver, 21 King Road, New Jersey. I haven't checked, but I sent you an email. I asked you to update the town website and give an update in layman's terms as to what was going on with the uh lawsuit. Have you had a chance to do that?

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Website's up to date >> with layman's terms. >> Website's up to date. >> That was my question. With layman's terms, people don't understand legal ease. >> Who doesn't understand? >> Oh, well, I can probably I don't understand. >> The website is up to date

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>> with legal ease. Is it updated with layman's terms? Did you put a press release out? Did you put anything out there? >> My statement is up on there that pretty much >> from the from the >> My statement is up there. >> Okay, good. I'll check. from the from the summary from the court

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case. That's what I'm asking. >> The website is up to date. >> Anybody else? Seeing none. Hi, my name is Kaitlyn and I live in Chester, which is sort of in your backyard. Um, I've attended one of these meetings before. I did not speak at that

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one before. Um, but I wanted to speak briefly tonight. I know time is limited. Um, I wanted to share with you about the Roberry facility that's Having just been at Delaney Hall,

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um, and with everything going on there, um, I would encourage you if you haven't been down there to go because that's what you're facing having right here. And this meeting started, it was really lovely thanking the firefighter who is retiring after years of service. And you

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want your town to be known for good things, right? You want Roxberry to have a good reputation. If this facility gets up and running, Roberry will be known for very, very bad things. It will be in the press all the time.

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There will be protesters here all the time. There will be family members here all the time. There will be all sorts of people and eyes on you all the time. All the concerns that people from Roxberry have raised before are totally

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valid, about the traffic, about congestion, about press. Yesterday, the road kept getting blocked, buses couldn't go through, trucks couldn't go through.

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That's what you're facing here as well. So, in addition to all the human rights violations that are going on that would be happening in your town under your watch, without you being able to supervise or monitor or do anything about them because they'll be at the federal level, you will have all of the

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nuisance and the quality of life issues. What it does to property values, I can't even imagine because this was in a really big industrial park. But here, Roberry is different. The way the Roxberry is set up and how houses are going to be to this facility. It's going

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to be an absolute nightmare. So, I hope you are working as hard as you possibly can to save this off and to really think through all of the ramifications at all of the levels for your town. And I am concerned as a neighbor because it's

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going to affect our traffic, our water, everything in our town as well. Thank you. >> Thank you. We have a second portion in a few minutes. >> We'll have another one. >> All right. I'm going to close this

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public portion. Reports of council leaison representatives council committees new and old business. Um last week I was not at our neighborhood meeting. I was at the New Jersey Conference of Mayors in the city. uh and

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uh had a great opportunity for two days to engage with other mayors around uh the state. Uh we had some great discussions on AI uh affordable housing, insurance costs in New Jersey for municipalities, um utility management as far as water and sewer uh and uh sat in

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on some subcommittees for land use, affordable housing, uh as well as discussed some uh bills that are in front of the assembly and the senate. It was a great experience. It's nice to know that a lot of mayors are going through the same thing and um it was uh

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I was very happy I was able to attend. Uh yesterday we had a Memorial Day ceremony. Want to thank a few people started by the parade committee. Uh Mike Mangano, chairman Michelle Hollerin, Caitlyn House, thank you for

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being on that committee. our VFW Post 2833. Thank you very much. Uh Home Depot in Sakasa, uh MD Manufacturing, Jim Alrech, Councilwoman's husband, uh our Roxbury Township Police Department, Fire

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Department, public works and recreation. Thank you guys. And uh the teams, everything that they do. Uh all the scouts that participated yesterday. Uh they they always add such a nice little touch to it. Uh and then all the guests, the room was

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and it was nice to see so many people that came out to recognize um our heroes. So, uh thank you. That's all I have. Deputy Mayor, thank you, Mayor. Uh Memorial Day, even though we didn't have the parade, it was a fantastic event. Um

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I want to thank Mark Beasley of MB Manufacturing who engraved I think it was six more names, seven, I'm sorry, seven more names um at our memorials, which is just fantastic. Um, I want to thank Home Depot. I went there

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the day before Home Depot cleaned up the area. Uh, between them, Steve, your group, and stuff, um, the place looked beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. It's a shame that that it rained. Although, I will tell you that after the sun cleared

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a little bit and there were people going over and seeing the memorial. So, that was fantastic. Um, also, we had a week or so ago the Lake of Paccom Foundation block party which was fantastic. Beautiful weather

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was a great day on that. Um very well attended a lot of fun. Uh and tonight we had a EGC meeting and um just want to report that we are looking at new websites. Websites will be up in July.

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EC website will follow more like the township website but the township website will also be changed around a little bit. We'll be looking forward to that. Go ahead. Thank you, >> Councilwoman. >> Oh, thank you. Our Memorial Day celebration was beautiful and I'm so

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happy that it was the turnout was as great as it was. And I also want to remind everybody that this Friday we have our annual beach blast out on Horseshoe Lake with a fun fun band and fireworks afterwards. So, come on out

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and join me. Thank you. That's it. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, a few things. Um, on May 13, we had some replantings at Horseshoe Lake. Um, big thanks to Steve. Steve, really good job organizing that whole scenario. We planted 60 uh bushes

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in that area all around Horseshoe Lake. Um, uh, Mayor and I did the best we possibly could get those things to the ground as quickly as possible. Um, And uh but Steve really great job in uh in coordinating that with Rar Headquarters

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Association. Those people are great. By the way, if you ever have a chance to uh with those people, they do a great job. Um I agree. I like the PC on black party. It was very well attended. Beautiful day. Great great event. Memorial Day parade. One other thing I would just like to add on the Memorial

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Day parade is is there's a big pivot. You know what I mean? You know, everyone wanted it outside. We all wanted it outside, but we had a pivot inside. uh in order to get that done and uh it really turned out very well. So to all the people that were involved in moving

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the entire event in inside uh congratulations. You did a great job. Um the fishing derby on May the 17th ever the same day was a color fun run. Uh

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every year Rotary has this. It's just an absolutely wonderful event and determined the recipients and they had some real valid recipients this year and they raised money for for a very very good cause. Um have to say probably Mr. Riley and I got

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help most and as well as the mayor was also there at that particular you have any comments on it? >> Yeah. >> Um we also had the uh the taste of

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Roxbury at Bob uh talk about that. Another great event. Um >> food there was absolutely fantastic roads. Um as council woman just mentioned, we have one of the largest

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events uh happening u in the next couple days. May 29th on Friday night, that's our annual beach blast and it's going to have 250th theme to it. Ann country. So, starts at 6, uh, ends

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around 10:00. The fireworks will begin at dusk. I would say probably around 9:15. The main, uh, start is is about 7 o'clock. We're going to have a flag relay going all the way around the perimeter of the horseshoe lake

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facility. And then we'll have a session, some speeches, and uh, we'll kick off the night from there. But it should be a great event. It's free. So please if you get an opportunity on Friday night, please come out and see. It's going to be great. Fireworks be great. Again, the fireworks are

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completely donated. They have a lot of great sponsors if I was one of those sponsors um to get us uh get us those fireworks. Also, we have some great themes at that at that

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event, 250th anniversary. Uh we're going to be burying some time capsules within Roxbury Township. Um, mayor's going to help me out with some dates uh for that in the near future. Um, so we're going to be bettering those with time capsules to be open.

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So, lots lots of things happening that night. Really great event. He had an opportunity. Please go to that. And then lo and behold, that Monday we have our annual 5K race that will be at Horseshoe Lake

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complex. And that is all for me, Mr. Thank you, Councilman Riley. >> Yeah, I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention the Memorial Day services uh we want to talk about how great this township is. And many of these events point and I was shocked by the number of

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people from children to seniors to veterans that showed up to attend this service indoors on a rainy day. It was amazing. It was well done. Like to thank the committee and everybody involved. They pretty much covered it,

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but I think it's really great. Color fund run by Rotary Interact Club, which is our high school equivalence to the Rotary. Um the mayor was nice enough to call out the color

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to point out that Fred and I were walking in there because I had my granddaughter. She was she was a casualty as well. But it was time probably one of the better days last Rand

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Any further discussion? >> Yes. >> Councilman. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Councilman. >> Yes. Yes. >> There's still more even more stuff

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that's going on that people know. Uh the chamber of commerce put on taste of Roberry last month. It was sold out. It sold out every year. Food was fabulous. The people are great. It's just great to

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be surrounded by so many res and so it was just a terrific evening. The money raised goes to help our local businesses and our community. So the chamber does

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terrific work and easily move from there to later auction raises tons of money. that money is pumped right back into the community. It was a lot of fun. It was at the firehouse, the newly

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renovated firehouse room, right? So, if you're looking to rent the party, you want to go talk to Thank you, Councilman. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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The next board of education meeting. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. >> Thank you, Mr. Manager. Yes, for the council and the public, uh, I made a pledge and I will continue to go up to the facility every week like I did and no

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construction has started. Uh, I told the council and the public that I would keep you informed. I was up there this afternoon and there's been no work done up there for the fencing. I don't I don't know if they've installed a camera or something. As close as I got, there's been no work.

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Thank you very much. Uh items requested items requested referred by council members, managers, attorney and clerk. We have two items. All in favor down there. Um, all right. Introduction of proposed

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ordinance 13-26 ordinance to amend the supplement chapter 2 administrative code section 2-17 officer and employees general of the revised general ordinance of the township of Roxbury County of Morris

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state of New Jersey introduce >> motion discussion Yes, sir. They've been verified. >> I appreciate the support.

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>> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Council, >> yes. >> Mayor Crowley, >> yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. Hearing adoption on ordinance on second there are none. Item 11, introduction and adoption of resolutions

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>> 2026-124 to include 2026-125 through2 It's a 2026-124 uh include 2026-1 126 through 2026 132. Apologize.

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Any further discussion? >> Roll call. Yes, >> yes, >> yes. >> Council Riley, >> yes. >> Yes. Item 12, personnel change. There

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are none. 13, communications, May 22nd, 2026. Any discussion? Any discussion on communications? May 22nd. Moving on. This brings us to our second public portion. Does anybody in in the public wish to be heard on any topic?

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Please come to the microphone, state your name and address for the record. three minutes, one appearance per >> Hi, it's been a while. Um, Mon, so you mentioned that the website is up to

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date. Um, and you were asked whether or not it was explained in person's terms and you just repeated that it was up to date. So, here's an example of what we mean by that. So, this is a weekly newsletter that we send out to an email list of 2,000 people um to explain

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what's going on with Roxbury and give the latest updates. Just as an example, uh victory in court this week, but the fight continues, explained by our legal counsel. We are pleased to let you know that there was a tremendous victory this week in the lawsuit by the New Jersey

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attorney general in Roxberry Township against DHS seeking to block the conversion of the Roxberry warehouse into an ICE detention facility. The core claim brought by the AG in the township is that DHS ignored its responsibility pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act to perform an in-depth

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assessment of the effects on the local environment including water supply, sewage capacity, water and air pollution and traffic. This is a pattern that DHS has repeated in each of the locations where it has purchased warehouses and state and local governments are fighting back by bringing lawsuits. In

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particular, the AG and township had requested that the federal district court sitting in Newark enter a preliminary injunction stopping DHS from taking any substantive steps towards conversion of the warehouse unless and until it had prepared the required environmental assessment under NEPA. In

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a nearly identical case brought by the state of Maryland, a federal judge in that statement issued such a preliminary injunction and harshly criticized DHS for its failure to follow the law. Just hours before the New Jersey attorney general's intentious motion scheduled to be heard by the court on Tuesday, May

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12th, DHS undoubtedly sent him that they would also lose before this court agreed to enter into a legally binding stipulation which requires CHS to halt all conversion work on the warehouse unless and until it has produced the required environmental assessment. In effect, they flew the white flag and

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avoided what would have probably been another humiliating court defeat had the hearing been held as scheduled. DHS is now to erect temporary fencing around the facility and to perform routine grounds grounds keeping and maintenance activities. Although nobody can say with

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any certainty how long it will take DHS to perform the environmental assessment, we believe it will probably be 6 to9 months if they undertake a serious effort. It is actually our hope that when DHS and its consultants examine the lack of sewage and water capacity among other factors, they will realize that the effort to purchase and convert the

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warehouse never should have been undertaken in the first place and they will abandon their efforts. In any event, members of the public, the AG, and the township will all have the ability to review and comment on the environmental assessment if and when it is produced. And if it reflects an incomplete or shoddy review, then the AG and township will undoubtedly ask the

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court to require DHS to prepare an assessment that complies with the law. In the meantime, we would urge that the state, the township, and the citizens of Roxbury and surrounding towns keep a sharp eye on the warehouse to ensure that any violations by DHS of the stipulation be brought to theention of

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AG and ultimate in court. If you're not subscribed, go to no-roberry.js.com. We're going to be changing that some point, but it look forward to it. So, you can subscribe to our email list. >> Thank you. >> Suzanne, 21 King Road Landing. I spent

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the last two days at Delaney Hall this weekend. Since none of you will go there, I need you to understand exactly what is happening inside that private prison and what is coming to Roxberry if you not act immediately on zoning ordinances. Because this facility is run by Geog Group, standard prison

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regulations are bypassed. Basic human necessities are not provided. Detainees must pay GEO Geog Group for hygiene items like soap, toilet paper, feminine products. They have to pay to take a shower. To avoid them, to afford them, they are forced to work for a dollar a

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day. Forcing human beings to use the bathroom without soap or toilet paper creates a severe risk of highly contagious fecal infections, which spread like wildfire. Go home tonight and ask your wives, daughters, and granddaughters what they would do without toilet paper, pads, or tampons,

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and let them explain that to you. Here's what's coming to Roxberry if you do not get serious about zoning. Locate local zoning. I personally witnessed a Bearcat armored vehicle armed with a gunner ready to fire on an automated pepper ball rifle. I saw mass armed agents

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cosplaying as police in riot gear carrying retractable batons and zip ties and antagonizing the crowds, laughing, smirking, and joking while human beings were suffering. I watched them push peaceful protesters to the ground. They fired pepper balls directly towards the

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singing resistance. A group of middle and older aged women peacefully singing songs. Senator Anthony and Anthony Anthony, I'm sorry, Andy Kim was shoved and pepper-sprayed while trying to shield peaceful citizens. I saw this with my own eyes. This is the reality

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coming to Roxberry. Hundreds of families will line up multiple times a week to see their loved ones. Mutual aid tents will be set up by volunteers to provide shelter and warm meals for infants, children, and the elderly. Will you provide portaotties because they're not allowed to use bathrooms. When this

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crisis hits our doorstep and ICE rolls down Route 46 in armored vehicles with guns at the ready, the national media, families, and the citizens of Roxberry will be calling for you. Where will you be? And don't think it's just immigrants rights protesters, aggressive counter

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counterprotesters will also show up. Maybe you recall Charlottesville, once synonymous with UVA, now synonymous with murder and protesting. Which of you will stand outside the prison and explain why people are being detained without warrants, without due process, and

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without basic dignity in your town? You haven't had the courage to speak about this prison at local meetings. How? And you avoid all questions and hide behind a useless resolution. Why should we believe you handle your duties once the chaos arrives? Where will you be?

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Get prepared or pass the zoning ordinances. This is what's coming to Roxberry. Hi, I'm Corey from I really struggled with what to say tonight. I've stood up here a few times and talked about how we're all working off of the information we're seeing in our personal echo chambers. But this

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past weekend, my echo chamber was busted wide wide open. I spent the better part of the last four days at the leaning hall. So tonight I'm talking about my own personal experience, not information that I'm getting from other sources. And I think it's critically important for you all to hear firsthand accounts of what ICE is doing there. I assume you've

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seen some of the news coming out of Delaney Hall from this past weekend. But what you didn't see if you weren't there was this. I stood a few feet in front of Andy, Senator Andy Kim, and tried to listen to what he was saying while a soldier armed with a pepper ball rifle sitting inside a goddamn armored vehicle

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trained his weapon directly on Senator Kim and those of us around him. I watched agents armed with sidearms and batons in their hands shove and push peaceful protesters to the ground unprovoked while Senator Kim called for deescalation. I watched crowds of people

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run toward me as the slow creek of pepper spray blanketing the air seeped into my lungs, eyes, and nose, sending me and everyone around me gasping for air, coughing and sneezing uncontrollably and closing our eyes as water poured from them. All of this because the people inside Delaney Hall

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were brave enough to tell us about the unbelievably inhumane treatment they're receiving inside the gates. They've been on a hunger and labor strike for five days now and Geog Group who operates the facility has been shamefully retaliating against them. Protests have continued 24 hours a day since Friday. I want to be

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clear. I am not some radical anarchist who takes to the streets lightly. I've never been arrested. I've never found myself sideways with law enforcement. I'm literally just a mom. I'm an ordinary person. an extraordinary sense of empathy and when I see people suffering I feel compelled help. So I

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showed up. I want to make it abundantly clear to you that there are hundreds of people like me here in our area. Ordinary moms with a strong sense of empathy and a moral compass. And we will show up when ICE and DHS inevitably treat detaines held here in Roxberry the way that they treat detaininees

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everywhere where else like Delaney Hall. And when we do it's your local emergency services that will be left to deal with it. when pepper spray and tear gas launched in your own backyard. It's your streets that will be barricaded as ordinary citizens try desperately to keep people from being illegally

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detained and tortured by federal agents. And it's your police chief who will be putting a the impossible situation of figuring out how to keep the community safe from these lawless violent masked men hellbent on throwing moms like me to the ground in a cloud of pepper spray. This probably sounds like I'm being

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dramatic. I assure you I'm not. This is the reality of situation when ICE comes to town. So once again, I urge you to take this threat seriously and to do absolutely every single thing you can in your power to keep this facility from opening. >> Thank you.

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William Angus Hack, I just before I get into my remarks, I just wanted to clarify uh these visits that are going to be made weekly, are they external or or are they internal inside the building to check for compliance? We know >> the visits are external. >> Okay, that's what I thought. Thank you.

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Uh recently, uh the OG and DHS reached an agreement to do the required environmental studies necessary before taking action to convert the warehouse into a detention center. You may think that the work is done, but we know different. The protests, the public pressure and attendance here at town

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council will continue. We refuse to let our elected officials, whether it is you or whether it is the governor, the public or the media, forget what is at stake here. This weekend's hunger strike and violent action by ICE against protesters is a stark reminder of what

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Roxy's future will be if we do not continue to do the work. The people who made the ICE lawsuit possible and bought valuable time are standing behind me tonight. They are the residents who attended rallies, researched legal auctions, monitored activity at the

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site, and kept the public informed. You want to claim credit for this month's victory, but you did very little to stop or delay the warehouse conversion when it mattered most early on. For weeks after the Washington Post article exposed the plan, the mayor responded by saying, "We will we will not comment on

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rumors." Meanwhile, we organized, gathered information, and sounded the alarm. The only reason that you were even able to identify the location, tour the site, and were able to meet with ICE that day was because we provided that information to you at a town council

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meeting. Um, even after the threat was confirmed, the council and town attorney declined to pursue ordinances or legal actions that could have slowed or complicated the sale. And by the time you did take action, it was too late, offering incentives to delve in after the deal

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was already underway didn't work and we lost nearly two million in tax revenue. Nearly every meaningful development in this fight has come from the pressure in grassroots organizing not from you. Cy Booker said that he did not hear from you despite your statements otherwise.

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And when they came to us, Cy Booker's office said that they came to you, offered their help, and you were declined their assistance. Project Ninja has provided crucial information to state and federal officers which allowed them to file their lawsuit. We have kept the public informed through the media

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and public engagement. You decline interview requests from the press and calls to town offices go unanswered. Emails are dismissed derisively as spam and requests for transparency are ignored. Rather than treating concerned residents as partners, you act with disdain toward the people doing the real

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work. Even now, there are unanswered questions. Will you enforce the original warehouse restrictions limiting the use of the access road? There are still ordinances that can be passed to ensure that they don't go elsewhere in town if environmental reviews go badly for them. We urge you to appoint a community

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liaison to answer these questions to the town's people. >> I do not have this thing for you. I just want to clarify the record. I personally with some council members tooured the warehouse with Senator Booker and his

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staff with Senator Kim and his staff. So to say that we haven't been in touch with Senator Booker and his staff, they sat at this table and we met them up there. I have pictures with them. So I'm I'm saying it respectfully. Like so

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some of the things you're saying, we are all parters in this. We all are fighting for the same thing. So I just want to collect correct the record that we in fact met with both senators at the facility and have had multiple

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conversations with their teams. Not just when they were here post Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Patrick Gallagher. I'm My address is 49ers Road Valley, New Jersey. and I'm with the North Jersey

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chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Um there's a lot of power and responsibility to uh being executives and council members at the local level. Um I know that the threat of DHS from the federal government may

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seem overwhelming, but there are actionable steps that many uh local activists are hoping uh that you pass. Uh I have a few suggested uh ordinances. Uh for instance, amending zoning regulations to prohibit detention

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facilities. A visual light ordinance banning razor wire and electrical fences. A prohibition on stationary generators over 500 kows from being located within 500 ft of residential property lines and a prohibition on the installation of surveillance devices on

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the facility. Um, so I'm just asking that you consider those ordinances. Uh, while the warehouse cannot be converted to a concentration camp just yet, uh, due to the, uh, the environmental review that still has to take hold, there's

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valuable time here that can be used to impede DHS from pursuing, uh, this camp in the event that the, uh, the lawsuit isn't effective. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'm Olivia. I live in the lower valley. Have this. I'm not going to hold it up

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the entire time though. I'm only human. Um, so I was prepared to come tonight with words of anger, but frankly, I'm tired and I'm my heart hurts. So, I don't have it in me tonight. I just want to talk about what I saw when I went to Delaney Hall this weekend. So, we first

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went on Saturday um probably around 2 p.m. and was pretty calm, you know, um it was organized. People were behaving respectfully. ICE, however, was not. Um I watched as ICE was taunting and harassing um Gabby, the wife of Martine

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Soto, was being held there. Um so what happened is he was supposed to be released and they tricked him into signing the papers because he doesn't understand English very well and it was a transfer order. And I watched as ICE belittled her as they at her. She's four

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or five months pregnant. Is this acceptable behavior? Regardless of whether you agree with our stance, is this acceptable behavior anywhere? One of the most vulnerable populations is pregnant women. She does not deserve this. Her children deserve a father. She

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deserves to have her husband back. If you want to talk about, you know, preserving community, preserving families, preserving everything that is meaningful in Roxberry, that affects us, that makes us want to live here. This is the kind of thing that by, you know, not taking a strong enough stance against

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this facility, you are inviting into the community. And I understand that, you know, people are still ignorant of what's happening and that I can absolutely forgive. But willful ignorance is reprehensible and I simply will not accept that. And I understand and you know, you're doing what is in

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your power. I frankly do not believe you're doing enough. This was incredibly disturbing. We got a message around 12:30 a.m., mind you, I was still awake after returning home that evening that they needed help. And I went back out there and not because anyone is paying

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me. And you know what? An ICE agent said that to me. He said, "Who's paying you? My noral job pays me. I'm not getting paid to protest. I'm doing this because I fundamentally believe that this is the right thing to do. And you know, I think that reveals a lot more about the ICE

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agents than it does about us because they don't believe that anyone could believe in something so strongly that they would get out of bed in the middle of the night, drive 45 minutes and stand there to support people who need their help. And luckily enough, I was in a position I could do that. But that's the

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community that is here with me. We are willing to do those things. And when I reached out earlier, when I was struggling emotionally after seeing what I've seen this weekend, people were there to support me. And that is beautiful. And that should be what Roxberry is known for. It shouldn't be about harassing vulnerable populations

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of pregnant women who want their families members back. It should be about community and uplifting each other. And I I just don't know at this point how to explain that you're supposed to care about other people. Thank you. My name is Sam Baron. I'm with the North

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Jersey chapter of Democratic Socialist of America. Um, I stand here today also as a person who u was down, New Jersey. Uh, I stand here as a person who is also uh down at Delaney Hall on Sunday and Monday. I stand here as a

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person who is maed in the face by um ICE agents after peacefully standing there um and complying with their orders. Um but I'm not here to bring attention to myself. Um I'm here to try to put myself in your shoes and to encourage you to

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consider passing further ordinances to prohibit the uh the um construction of detention centers in the town of Roxbury. And the reason for that is I witnessed as I was down at Hall ICE and

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DHS are not good faith actors and they're not good faith negotiators. I witnessed them lie to Sen US Senator Andy Kim's face. when he was trying to negotiate between protesters and ICE, ICE told him to his face that

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all they were going to do was allow employees of the facility leave that detention center if the protesters parted. And what happened? What happened was center was lied to and

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vans with blacked out windows, tinted blacked out windows, not employee cars with lights flashing, left that facility. We don't know who is in those cars, but we do know as other residents have stated that people are being forced to sign orders that they might not fully

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understand. There might be orders to self deportation. Those people could be in those cars and don't know where they are. Their families might not know where they are. So my point is is that you are not negotiating with good faith negotiators. You're negotiating with people who at the very least are willing to lie to a United States senator.

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What could they possibly lie to about um township committee? That's kind of what I'm what I'm trying to say here. Secondly, what I'd like to say is that you were inviting two types of chaos into this town. The first is the chaos that we know goes on at a detention

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facility like Delaney Hall. We're talking about unexplained deaths. We're talking about unexplained miscarriages. We're talking about HIV medication that's being withheld from detainees there. Secondly, the type of chaos that you're

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inviting is not so much chaos, but organized resistance. And I think what you don't realize is that there is organization behind the resistance to Delane Holland. There organization to the building of a detention center in Roxbury and you're inviting all the

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things that other residents have pointed out here today. You're inviting mutual aidents outside of the facility. You're inviting protesters outside of the facility. and you're inviting the violence that we know ICE conducts against protesters as we

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witnessed earlier at Delaney Hall. You're inviting this into your community and as the resident said earlier right in the office. I urge you to pass further ordinances. I come here mostly to say my piece about the detention center that would possibly be at the warehouse in Roxbury. I have

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nothing new to add. Um I do appreciate everybody that has gone to Paul this weekend and had been there because that right now. Um I feel like a broken record every week and I've said really all that I needed to say. Um we just spoke about all the

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lovely things we have going on in this community. Um and we have going on the future we have in the past. It's I love about our town and all that will be overshadowed by this detention center. It is not what our town is going to be known for. We don't want to hear and we

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ask for you to fight like hell to avoid it coming here. What I see happening at Delaney Hall is horrific and it doesn't belong there and it doesn't belong here. We need to be on the correct side of history. And I appreciate if you would try to fight a little harder and be a little bit more open with us and tell us

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what's going on because I do feel like people don't know. I have spoken to neighbors and they again say I thought this was resolved the resolution was passed that means it's not happening right I go no it's not that's not what happened and I tell them more I have no idea because they don't follow up they

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see something and then they think that's that's what's happened so any more encouragement I can give you to get people involved know what's going on I think there more outrage thank Hello, my name is Aesh Gupta. I live in

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Newton, New Jersey. And uh I wanted to speak about two things. The first is the request for ordinances that will prevent ISIS continued use of this facility. So you guys received possibly hundreds of emails this past week. You received calls. Some of them went to voicemail

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boxes. Some of them went to machines that haven't been set up. Uh and this is not new, right? The people coming to these meetings have been asking you to pass ordinances. Use your legislative power to prevent the use of this facility for

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months and you have not taken a single action besides a peruncter resolution and writing the cattails of a lawsuit with the attorney govern the attorney general. >> I mean, yeah, maybe it's but you haven't taken any legislative

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action. That's for certain. Now, >> I've seen, you know, 60, 70 year old women getting shot by pepper balls, getting tear gas outside of Delaney Hall, and you guys can't pass an ordinance. You're cowards. That's what I'll say

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about that. Second thing is that we have had volunteers outside of the facility for uh every weekday for the past two weeks observing the ICE vehicles that are going in and out. Uh on four separate occasions, we've seen up to 20

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vehicles enter and exit that facility. Some of these vehicles have extremely tinted out license plates where we can read them. We observed two vehicles that had the same plates and today we they really sealed the deal because we saw a car that had no plates at all. So this

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is I I don't have to tell you that's a violation of the law. I would strongly advise you to send your local police department to go issue tickets to them at the very least for this this behavior. And the reason they're doing this is because we have rapid responders

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all across New Jersey and uh you know responding to situations where these guys get out of cars drag I just saw video uh last week of someone getting dragged out of his car, beaten on the ground. People who tried to intervene to stop this from happening getting pepper-sprayed and beaten themselves.

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Um, these people are staging in your town. We've observed these vehicles being used in kidnappings across New Jersey. So, you have to do something about this. You have to stop ICE from staging in your town to go do kidnappings and do ultraviolence all

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across New Jersey. It's ridiculous. And um, yeah, you got the police over here ready to like mess us up if we say the f word up here, but you won't get them to issue tickets. Ridiculous.

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>> I'm just here to share my experience. I do not live in Camel Bank. I live on Pleas Road 7 miles from here in Chester. I quit my enterprise risk management corporate job to stay home and take care and focus on my children. Instead, I've

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been working to aid and support other people's families directly impacted by ICE. They destroyed a family in my Chester hometown. Just one. God knows how many as well. Majority of people detained are

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not criminals. Over 70% not criminals. There are neighbors. No one is safe when I neighbors are living in fear, hiding, scared, and they should be. I escorted a

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woman to her immigration hearing because we were scared that she would not out of the building. She has a little girl at home. That means her seven years old. At that immigration hearing, I was intimidated by ICE agents. All I was

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doing was standing. They did not want me there. They threatened forced removal of me. They threatened force big men. They need big men to come out and scare me, to get

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me to leave a public space in a public building. I was standing quietly in the hallway and I was only there to make sure she had a translator and and I could get her home.

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I complied not to jeopardize her circumstances and her safety. If they're not translators, they can't due process is not there. This was in public building. So, it doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't

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matter what you look like. It doesn't matter if you think you're safe or not. You're not. Just being around these illtraed officers is dangerous. The detention centers way worse. I've

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been to Deli Hall. Poor civic geog group have no regard for any humanitarian responsibility that they have. They're not providing people with food or clean water.

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Mothers are able to see their babies maybe for a few minutes. We're talking about babies maybe for a few minutes a day. People with existing or new medical conditions are not being provided minimum

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for any medical care. We're talking about people with HIV, cancer, pregnant women, pregnant women. These are crimes against humanity. That's exactly what will happen here

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if you allow them to open a detention center. I don't know what you're doing, what you're not doing. That's not why I'm here. I just want you to know what I have seen, not what I see on social media, what I know. >> These agents are outside.

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>> Good evening. >> Good evening, Diana May. uh here was for Lake East here in Roberry. Um we've heard a few people say tonight um that we still talk to neighbors and they don't know what's going on, which to us

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who are living this and breathing this every day is totally unfathomable. Um anything you could do to push information out to the community would be much appreciated. Um I know that we are updating the website to appreciate that, but that does require people to come to the website to go looking for

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it. Um before all this, sorry I was never perusing your lovely town council website. Um so press releases put out um things on the township of Rockberry social media pages. Anything even just factual information, this is where it stands. A lot of really great headway has been made and I think we can

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celebrate that. So that would be much appreciated. As a Roxbury resident, I'm concerned it's getting closer. We see it coming closer to our community. We had the detainment in landing several months ago. We still don't have the details on

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what happened there. And just this weekend, um, a couple was detained. They are restaurant owners in in Dober. That leads me to believe they were filing their taxes. They they did all the paperwork and but just being the wrong

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color or being of the wrong descent is enough to detain people. There are plenty of people in Delaney Hall that have all the legal paperwork. They're doing all the right things and they're being held for months and months and months and it's getting closer to our own community and that terrifies me. And

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to the um point that Otesh was saying about the ICE vehicles, I wanted to bring that to your attention. I'm glad you brought that up. The fact that they have no plates or the plates are completely obscured. So, um we have people regularly driving by or living very near that warehouse and they are

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reporting and they are saying that they saw covered by bright orange piece of tape or fabric. So, they're going out of their way to remain anonymous. And we've seen in Minneapolis and we've seen in lots of areas how dangerous that is. That anonymity, the covering of

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their faces despite the ban that Governor Cheryl passed, the covering of license plates despite a long u law in New Jersey. It's for a reason, and it's not to do the right thing and to follow the law and to treat people. and I'm

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really concerned that this is coming to our town. Thank you. >> Bonnie Randa, an 18-year-old high school student crying and saying she just wanted to graduate in her senior year. A pregnant woman unable to get full OB/GYN medical support. A woman who had a

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miscarriage in the detention facility and was left to manage it all on her own. A not allowed to spend more than a few minutes with her fourmonth-old. A husband of an American citizen's wife, a carton with the milk inside that was congealed solid. The expiration date was on Sunday. A man there for nearly a year

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with no movement in his legal efforts. A document showing next Tuesday's court docket with 74 cases before one judge one day, which averages about five minutes per case. a man telling me ISIS trying to deport him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an

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active Ebola outbreak. He's from South America. Numerous people who were arrested scheduled interviews for green cards after just trying to follow the formal process. A family unable to find out what hospital their family was sent to. I said they could not give any medical updates to families of

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hospitalized detaininees. The Statue of Liberty as I left the facility to drive home. That's from Andy. Senator Andy Kim, who has been there to help you guys with um making sure this facility in Roxberry doesn't open. We need to treat

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humans as humans. However, in a post Monday evening on X, Mullen repeated DHS's claims that there was no hunger strike or poor conditions. He said Democratic officials in New Jersey quote unquote chose to spend their Memorial Day weekend smearing ICE law

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enforcement. In response, Kim said he wished Mullen would have called him, quote unquote, because I would tell him about the people that I talked to that are engaged in this hunger strike and protest. I know you guys are not have not gone to Delaney Hall. Um, whether

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you agree or not, I know some of you have openly stated here that you support ICE and what ICE is doing. This is what ICE is doing and you can

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support ICE but I don't think you can support what's going on with human beings. And what my friends who were at Delaney Hall this weekend didn't talk about is that people were being dragged down. A woman who's a physician was

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dragged down. She did a video on Facebook for trying to help people and it doesn't just amazing to the people who were there this weekend. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to all of you there.

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But it's impacting everybody. It It truly is. And And Senator, I'm addressing this to you, your senator. I called on Friday night begging. I know he may not have received the call because our representatives don't

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necessarily receive calls, but we're picking you. These are people's lives. People are dying. And people are being murdered and know really what it is. And please, please

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pay attention. Thank you. I'm done. My name is Sierra Wilson. Because none of you have been to Delaney Hall, I will tell you what is happening at Delaney Hall. A few days ago, there was a cry for help. Why was there a cry for help?

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Because people are being denied insulin. They're being denied treatment. A woman had a miscarriage and was denied medical support. There are minors there that are being denied education and schooling. There are people there being starved,

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tortured, and abused. So there was a hunger strike uh developed by a man named Martin Sto. Martin Sto has a wife who is five months pregnant. Her name is Since then the protests have been

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peaceful. They started off as vigils. However, one night without being prompted, ICE agents uh started spraying pepper spray. I was there yesterday on Monday and it

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was peaceful until it wasn't. And why wasn't it peaceful? Because a man got up and took a picture of an ICE agent. That's all he did was take a picture. He was right in front of me. D the person directly in front of me took a picture of an ICE agent as he is legally allowed

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to do. The ICE agent then took out his baton and whacked this man. Of course, I ran. I don't want to No one in this room deserves to get hurt for exercising their rights. The tensions then escalated.

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Andy Kim and Representative Nally Pal arrived. They were denied entry into Delaney Hall. They were denied entry despite having constitutional uh and congressional oversight. Andy Kim was uh pepper sprayed.

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Andy Kim was beaten. He came out uh to protect a woman who had been shoved to the ground. He ran to her aid and was pepper gassed. He came out later and said his hand was hurt. He didn't know what happened. His

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hand was beaten somehow. There are people in this room that were peppercast. I was not one of them because again, I was out of the way. But these people were sitting there nonviolently, not aggressively.

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I saw it with my own eyes. If you are in disbelief, if you don't believe me because you think all of us are are radicals with pink hair and tattoos and nose piercings and what else, I encourage you go to Delaney Hall and see for yourself. Because if this is

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what they are doing to a US senator, a federal official, what do you think they are doing behind closed doors? >> This was in view of the public. There were over aundred people there. There was PBS there, CNBC, MSN,

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a ton of New Jersey sites that I can't name all all of them. ABC, New York Times, all of the acronyms you can think of, they were all there. If this is what they are doing in front of an an international audience, what are they doing behind closed doors? My name is Woodri and I live in Sakana

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and two questions based on but as a resident and as your constituent I want to let you know that your silence in not communicating with us I think has caused a big rift in

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understanding and when you don't talk and you don't explain yourselves, the mind starts to wander and it always goes down the wrong path. So, a lot of people have said a lot of things that I don't think are fair to you guys, but at the same token, by you not addressing us and

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giving us any type of information, um, it leaves people worse. My other point is, as a constituent, I am deeply disappointed that I have to turn to a volunteer organization to information about what's going on. I am not fully

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ignorant about what's happening, but I don't have all the facts and I think there needs to be some communication from the people that are elected to represent township who are representing us, the people in the court in this case to give us information. And so I don't

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know what the right forum is, but we have learn about all the snow removals. There's tons of ways to communicate with us. And by not communicating with us and making go to public sources that are run by volunteers is not right. We should be

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getting information from the source and it could be as simple as the timelines. It could be as simple as we met. I didn't know you met with Cory Booker. How would I know that unless I follow him on on Instagram? So, I'm asking you please, I understand you're in a difficult situation with public knowing

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what's going on. But you've got to walk the line and you've got to go to your constituents and let them understand that you are fighting for them because I don't believe all of you sitting there are not trying to get this to stop. I really think you are trying to do that. But by not telling us that, by not keeping us informed, we're all thinking

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the worst. And and it's pretty scary. And I just want you to know I am a Rox resident and that's for the most uptoate information. I have been to the website and I printed out on the website and it's nothing more than that case. And I went to the governor's website and it's nothing more

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than that case. But if I'm going to be faced with this in the next six months or eight months and my family's going to be faced with this, your website does me no good. I have more information tonight than I have gotten off of your website. And I do check your website. Thank you. Thank you.

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Township. >> Sorry, your last name again. >> Seruit hours leaving must have been just very shortly before the crowd was pepper sprayed. I I've been to a number of peaceful protests

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over the last 11 years. Yesterday was the first time that I've ever found myself in front of an armored vehicle with some type of gun pointed at my head. This is coming to Roberry. If this facility goes through, I can only imagine that's Peaceful protesters are

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being treated outside what the conditions inside actually are. There've been reports of unrinkable water, spoiled and insufficient food, lack of basic hygiene items, limited access to medical care, no due process, psychological and physical abuse. This

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is coming to Roberry. Back in March, ICE took a man from Delaney to University Hospital in North because he had known experienced a seizure. At the hospital, his hands and feet were tied to the bed, so he couldn't use the bathroom or even sit up or turn over when he had to vomit. On

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top of that, his family wasn't notified of where he was or that he was sick. So, we're only told that he was no longer at Delaney. And the hospital staff were told to withhold medical information from his family. At two other detention centers, a man was given only acetamopen for weeks to treat an arm fracture that

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occurred during his violent arrest. And another man died of sepsis after being given only ibuprofen for two weeks. infection. This is the kind of inhumane treatment that's coming to Roxberry. Here's what else is coming to Roberry. Based on reports from detention centers

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in other states, loud and unsanitary conditions with insect infestations and rapid spread of diseases. There's been measles and tuberculosis outbreaks as well as flu and CO. There's been reports of severe overcrowding with as many as 50 to 60 detainees and cells. There's

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been sexual assault of detainees by detention center staff. There's been use of restraint chairs. There's been children living in traumatizing prisonlike conditions with minimal education. There's also been kids left behind in cars in hot or freezing weather when their parents were abducted from vehicles. There's also been

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security guards placing bets over which detainees would be the next to die by suicide. This is all coming to Roxberry. This will be your legacy if you don't do everything you possibly can to stop this. Hi, my name is Bridget Frank. I'm from Jefferson, New Jersey. And I'm here

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tonight as your neighbor, as someone who cares, someone who grew up in an interfaith family. And I know that a lot of people when they hear that this is a concentration camp kind of recoil from that. But coming from my Jewish background, I have to tell you that

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these are what concentration camps look like, what everyone has been talking about in Delini Hall. One of the definitions of concentration camps are people who are imprisoned based on their minority status. Look it up. And

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if you ever wondered what you would do during World War II, this is your time. This is your test. and I I have a master's degree in Jewish Christian studies. I'm going into another master's degree for social work. I believe in social justice. I have extreme empathy

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and I understand the tough position that you are in. But if you wanted a sign from whatever you believe in, whether you call it God or something else, this is your sign. This is your time to rise to the occasion. You have the power. I

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grew up watching Mr. Roger's neighborhood. And I loved how the other woman was talking about being a neighbor and this is the neighborhood. You're the helpers. This is your opportunity and it's time to take it. There are things you can do. I

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understand that you've started to do some things. I've heard people asking you to speak out, be more transparent, to pass ordinances. These are easy things that you can do for your community and your surrounding communities. This not only affects Roxberry, this

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affects people like me in Jefferson and I I heard other towns as well. >> So, I'm begging you to do more with your power. You are elected and entrusted to protect not just your town, but your neighbors as well.

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>> This is your time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Motion to adjourn. >> All in favor? >> Have a good night everyone. It really is so hard to keep straight