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Sordid high school basketball scandal now in ICE’s crosshairs

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By Brian Lewis

June 7, 2017 | 3:22pm

High school coach crams house with foreign ringers in squalid scandal

What started as a few probing questions about a suspicious New Jersey high school basketball program has become an investigation by federal immigration authorities.

New Jersey’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office — a division of the Department of Homeland Security — has opened a new investigation of Paterson Eastside’s hoops programs, according to NJ Advance Media. ICE officials are concentrating on how the program has been fed international players over the past six years and how the teenagers came — or were trafficked — to New Jersey.

Four months ago, NJ Advance Media reported players from Africa, South America and Puerto Rico had been brought stateside to play for Eastside’s teams since at least 2011, and that boys coach Juan Griles was housing — but apparently barely feeding — at least six of them. With the school district unable to issue proper immigration documents, they’re all at risk of deportation.

https://nypost.com/2017/06/07/sordid-high-school-basketball-scandal-now-in-ices-crosshairs/

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DOES NJ HAVE A LOT TO LOSE IF UNDOCUMENTED DEPORTED IN LARGE NUMBERS?

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“A #DayWithoutImmigrants means Senators & Senate staff couldn’t get their coffee because immigrants are part of our everyday lives”  Democrat Senator Bob Menendez

JOHN REITMEYER | MARCH 2, 2017

Half a million undocumented immigrants living in the Garden State contribute an estimated $587 million in taxes; aggressive deportation policy could hurt state and local budgets

New Jersey has one of the nation’s largest undocumented-immigrant populations, and the aggressive federal-deportation policy launched by President Donald Trump in recent weeks has sparked a widespread debate among state and local officials about public safety and human rights.

But a new national study that looks only at the tax contributions of undocumented immigrants suggests New Jersey could be among the states with the most to lose financially if Trump’s new deportation effort starts targeting more than just the very small group of immigrants who pose the most serious threat to public safety and national security.

As a group, New Jersey’s undocumented immigrant population contributes an estimated $587.4 million to the state and local governments via income, property and sales taxes, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That total tax haul ranks sixth-highest among U.S. states, behind only California, Texas, New York, Illinois and Florida, according to the study, which was released this morning.

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/17/03/01/does-nj-have-a-lot-to-lose-if-undocumented-deported-in-large-numbers/?utm_content=bufferc897b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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Marketing U.S. Citizenship and Childbirth Services at Meadowlands Hospital

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A company based in the Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center has been advertising online to Russian citizens, encouraging pregnant women to come to the Secaucus facility to give birth — a process that makes the baby automatically eligible for U.S. citizenship and connects the hospital to a growing and relatively unknown international phenomenon known as “birth tourism.” Lilo H. Stainton, NJSpotlightRead more