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By Jordan Weiner Last year, in an exhilarating chain of events, the three counties in New Jersey that housed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees in their jails announced they would no longer do so. Around the same time, Gov. Phil Murphy signed historic legislation that bans localities from entering new ICE detention contracts in the state. By the end of 2021, fewer than 200 immigrants were detained in New Jersey. Community activists celebrated the news. For years, they had protested outside of detention centers, flooded town hall meetings, and coordinated weekly call-in campaig…