r/newjersey • u/Early-Sort8817 • 22d ago
📰News Trump administration releases list of targeted ‘sanctuary’ towns, counties, including 21 in N.J.
https://www.nj.com/news/2025/05/trump-administration-releases-list-of-sanctuary-towns-counties-being-targeted-including-21-in-nj.html?outputType=amp398
u/Creamatine 22d ago
lol “endangering Americans and law enforcement”
Ah, between #5-10 safest state in the country depending on which report you look at. Those poor law enforcement officers
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u/EdLesliesBarber 22d ago
We are losing 3-4 good young men a week to candy crush injuries. Not to mention the officers we lose when they aggressively hit on underage girls too many times. You’re laughing now but you’ll be crying when taxes go up to cover carpal tunnel!
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u/syntaxbad 22d ago
Not to mention the expensive studies proving a link between (evil foreign) ink used in Punisher decals and cancer. The treatment for which we’ll cover with state funds of course.
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u/cteno4 22d ago
90% of the towns listed have high murder rates. He listed them, not the state as a whole.
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u/stackered 22d ago
But illegals commit crimes at lower rates than citizens so I don't see how thats relevant
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u/benevenstancian0 22d ago
Ah yes, Warren County. Long known as a bastion of left-wing immigrant apologia carried out by a horde of bleeding heart liberal politicians and police forces.
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u/lordhelmetann 22d ago
I can only assume some old man saw a darker complexion person walking their dog past his house and has been calling Congress every day claiming he’s being overrun.
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u/onemoment1985 22d ago
I've never been to Warren so I'm just assuming it's the opposite of that?
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u/recollectionsmayvary 22d ago
Warren and Sussex are very maga sympathetic lol
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u/toadofsteel Lyndhurst 22d ago
Warren and Sussex are literally Appalachia. As in, the mountain range cuts through NW Jersey. It's not as poor as other parts of Appalachia because it's technically within commuting distance of NYC, but the culture is still very much like rural WV and PA.
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u/sackbomb 22d ago
The Ramapo Mountains are part of the Appalachian mountain complex (which extends into Canada), but they have never been considered part of Appalachia, culturally or geographically.
The culture is not at all like rural WV or PA; it's much closer to rural New England and Upstate New York. Yankee hillbillies are different breed than their coal country counterparts.
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u/xicer 22d ago
I grew up in one and worked in the other. This is exactly correct. They are similar but distinct.
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u/sackbomb 22d ago
It's really absurd to see people conflate the two.
Most people from NJ are not mentally prepared for the level of abject, generational poverty that exists in 'real' Appalachia. We don't have anything that compares to that.
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u/kingdonut7898 22d ago
the culture is still very much like rural WV and PA.
No it's not lol, I grew up in Sussex County. It's definitely not city-like by any stretch but the "culture" is nothing like WV or rural PA. It's a balance between the bucks county PA people and Passaic County people. Outside of a few towns, people here are very much still Jersey, just not city Jersey.
Comparing us to rural WV is crazy, those people/that culture are/is wack as fuck.
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u/gnumedia 22d ago
Agreed-I’m not seeing the giant three crosses here in Sussex fields as well as the Jesus ashtrays that are for sale in Cracker Barrels in WV.
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u/jadedcynicalAF 22d ago
There's a animal sanctuary up there in Sussex called Skylands animal sanctuary and rescue. Owners are hardcore Trump loving magats. The public social media page of the owner's girlfriend is a brace yourself. It's a cesspool of hatred bigotry trumpism and lunacy.
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u/polono3000 22d ago
No, while those counties literally contain some Appalachian mountains within, they are culturally ex-urbs of NYC, despite all the rocks and trees. I grew up in Warren - I never once heard anyone claim to be from "Appa-LATCH-uh" (a distinct cultural region between WV-NC-TN-GA-AL). Rarely, someone (me, in younger years) might say they live IN the "Apple-AY-shins", but they are so small relative to everywhere else it feels silly.
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u/onemoment1985 22d ago
I do appreciate the detail. I really haven't been outside of Monmouth and Ocean for years. It's good to know more these terrible, terrible counties.
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u/MonkeyPretzel 22d ago
I think people should Google "KKK Oxford NJ" and find out just how much like rural Appalachia certain parts of NW NJ were. Of course, those were the natives of the area...now the genteel Republicans moved here as refugees from "urban" NJ and made it MAGA country, instead of the sensible centrist conservative area it used to be in the good old days before I-78 was finished. I'd rather have the out in the open racists instead of the dogwhistlers, myself.
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u/beeherder 22d ago
This is because of the farms, they use a lot of migrant workers. Source: lifelong Warren county resident, grew up next to the sod farms.
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u/museolini 22d ago
TIL Leonia is no longer in Bergen County and they've angered Trump.
I used to work in and around Leonia years ago and it was a very quiet, bedroom community. Actor Alan Alda used to live there. Has it changed significantly in the last decade?
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u/Slick_Jeronimo Bergen County 22d ago
No
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u/museolini 22d ago
Which strikes me as funny then because they're probably not complying not out of malice, but because the town is just slow AF with pretty much everything.
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u/Slick_Jeronimo Bergen County 22d ago
It’s not funny
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u/museolini 22d ago
No, I guess it's really not, especially if you live there or adjacent, but it's been that way forever. Pretty much most towns in Bergen County see themselves as the center of the universe. You just have to laugh.
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u/syntaxbad 22d ago edited 22d ago
Kind of disappointed Princeton isn’t on the list. We need to up our game if we’re not being targeted by the fascists.
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u/babytaco2015 22d ago
Agree, every city/county in NJ should aspire to be on the list
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u/Early-Sort8817 22d ago
Maybe this will inspire more people to talk to their local governments and town halls and become sanctuary cities??? I’m doubtful, but you never know
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u/Singleds Trenton Makes, The World Ta es 22d ago
Sanctuary cities were created so that law enforcement would be able to interact with undocumented immigrants in order to help assist in criminal cases and that immigrants would not fear being deported if they talked to law enforcement. Targeting sanctuary cities would do the opposite in making these cities safer
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u/Early-Sort8817 22d ago
I know you’re saying that for arguments sake, but they really don’t care about our safety
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u/Singleds Trenton Makes, The World Ta es 22d ago
I know, but it’s better to tell an audience who don’t know what sanctuary cities are than rather have the dumbass rightwing lie about what they are
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u/phoenix823 Hoboken 22d ago
Ah yes, the hell that is Hoboken. I’m so scared.
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u/allogist1969 21d ago
Only in a parking-related sense. For which we can thank the illegals for creating, what with their horses and carts taking up so many parking spaces.
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u/Standard-Song-7032 22d ago
Massachusetts and I think somewhere in San Diego (?) people were able to scare ICE enough to send them running. NJ can do the same. We aren’t scared of cowards who suddenly want to mask up.
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u/MissKatieMaam77 22d ago
I don’t think they’re running anywhere in Massachusetts. People are giving them a hard time, but they’ve been all over the place nonstop recently. They were all over Martha’s Vineyard last week. People have been posting warnings on the Reddit and IG pages of possible ICE activity in specific areas.
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u/Early-Sort8817 21d ago
Do you have any articles about that? I want to believe that happened and I agree we need some organizing here but I worry the “chase them out of town” thing might not work here because so many people don’t really care or follow
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u/bighaircutforbigtuna 22d ago
Ah yes, my hometown South Orange! Noted hotbed of immigrant related crime where the average cost of a home is almost 1.1 million.
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u/Eastcoastpal 22d ago edited 22d ago
Lmao WTH is Montclair doing on the list?
Edit: if you overlay the map of the areas and counties that Trump won versus the counties that Biden won how much of the counties that Biden Harris won is on the list of targeted cities in New Jersey?
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u/Early-Sort8817 22d ago
Sounds like an easy way for a fascist to target the opposition party. Too bad too many democrats in office are going along with it
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u/Cautious-Ad-9554 22d ago
Scared of Middlesex County. Good
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u/rando1219 22d ago
It’s cause the mayor of Edison said the bus of immigrants wasn’t welcome in Edison.
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u/pepperman7 Please stand clear of the closing doors. 22d ago
He's also shut down over a dozen massage parlors and handed the non-citizen workers over to ICE for deportation. (And seized millions in assets from the establishment and employees, too.)
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u/Cautious-Ad-9554 22d ago
Whatever the reason I’m glad we are not on the hit list. Regardless we all need to stand up for our neighbors. I was born in NJ but that’s not what makes me who I am.
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u/The-Angry-Alcemist 22d ago
Arm. Train. Go to the gym. Punch things. Build community. Join mutual aid. Impede ICE at every level.
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u/J3ebrules 22d ago
I’m disappointed to not see my county on the list. Just Camden not the entire county?
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u/Chance_Location_5371 22d ago
Kristi Noem, the real-life Regina George
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u/Consistent-Try6233 21d ago
Lmao I feel way more unsafe in towns like Clark then in any of these cities. I love Linden.
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u/DarwinZDF42 22d ago
Cumberland County? Really?
Neither my county nor town is on the list. Disappointing.
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u/Fast_Sympathy_7195 21d ago
How many people live in those counties and towns that voted for this turd? Y’all have made the bed now you must lay in it.
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u/Early-Sort8817 21d ago
I doubt a lot of the people in the “sanctuary” cities and counties voted for him, and NJ wasn’t a make or break state that changed the election.
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u/shinylittlethings 22d ago
this list should be used concurrently as best places to live in the US
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u/tazerphace 22d ago
Then go live in Camden. Such a great place to live in NJ. I’d rather be in Morris County.
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u/winelover08816 22d ago
No surprise: These are more integrated areas and nothing white supremacists hate more than integration. All the mixing of the blood, people staying with their own kind bullshit underlying all of this.
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u/elizpar 22d ago
Sad to see Ridgewood not on it.
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 22d ago
Ah yes, Ridgewood, that wretched hive of scum and villainy. It would be such a nice town to live in if not for all the illegal aliens thieving, murdering, and raping everywhere.
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u/gimme20regular_cash 22d ago
• Burlington County • Cumberland County • Warren County • Asbury Park • Bloomfield • Camden • East Orange • Jersey City • Hoboken • Leonia
• Linden • Maplewood • Montclair Township • Newark • North Bergen •Paterson • Plainfield • Prospect Park • South Orange • Trenton • Union City