Washington, DC (Bolts)

As executive director of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Amy Torres cheered on state officials in recent years for passing new protections to shield immigrants from arrest and detention. In 2019, she supported the Democratic attorney general's directive to restrict how local law enforcement can partner with federal immigration services. Then two years later, she watched as New Jersey lawmakers banned public and private contracts for immigration detention in the state.

But now Torres is nervous about what 2025 may bring. A lawsuit threatens to unwind the law against immigration jails, and the attorney general's directive is still not codified into law, meaning that a new official who is more hostile to immigrants' rights could quickly undo it. And New

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