Interfaith Vigil for Immigrant Detainees - Bergen Jail

LIFTING OUR LAMPS
Interfaith Vigil for Immigrant Detainees
Bergen County Jail
December 2, 2007

Religious leaders and community members are coming together to express concerns about detention conditions of immigrants at Bergen County Jail and in New Jersey County Jails that hold immigrants.

We will be calling for a "community accountability board" as a mechanism to provide meaningful oversight that is needed for safe and humane conditions in New Jersey immigration detention facilities.

(Partial List) Sponsored by the Interfaith Coalition for the Rights of Immigration Detainees and their Families in partnership with American Friends Service Committee, American Civil Liberties Union-New Jersey, Families For Freedom, New Jersey Association on Corrections, Interfaith Refugee Action Team-Elizabeth, Haiti Solidarity Network of the Northeast, Jubilee Immigrants' Rights Task Force, Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in New Jersey, Hispanic Development Corporation, New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, Casa de Esperanza, New Jersey Association of the United Church of Christ, Wind of the Spirit, People's Organization for Progress/Bergen County Branch, Episcopal Diocese of Newark, Unitarian Society of Ridgewood/Anti-Racism and Peace and
Justice Committees, Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition, Ethical Culture Social Action Committee

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[ptnj80]

The illegals being held ALL have a criminal history in the states, I just don't get it. If someone who you welcomed as a guest into your home began to destroy your home you would have them leave, the same logic applies here.

[JackHaynes30]

over paid gaurd scum

[spacepatrolman]

The bergen county jail is run by sadists that starve the inmates youll look like a skeletal concentaration camp victim when you have been in there the guards are the bottom fo the police scum barrell

[konradical]

if jailguardsgt1041 is really a guard at Bergen County Jail than that confirms the low hiring standards of the prison. Someone who would shoot off his mouth about locking up a group of faith-based protesters just because he disagrees with them should not be in charge of prisoners.

[konradical]

you mean by supplanting and genociding the indigenous people?

[Kyydax]

Come here legally like everyone else did.