DHS Won't "Back Down" On New NJ ICE Jail Despite Legal Filing: Feds

The proposed ICE detention facility at a Roxbury warehouse is caught in a contradiction: federal attorneys filed in court that DHS no longer intends to convert the site and plans to sell it, but DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin immediately took to X to insist the agency will “NEVER back down” and is keeping it as a detention center. New Jersey residents and politicians are left trying to make sense of which version is actually true, and given the ongoing legal and environmental review battles, this story appears far from settled.