FREEHOLD, N.J. — A crowd of about 60 men and women marched, chanted and carried signs Monday to protest the implementation of a federal immigration program opponents say would be expensive, sow fear in the immigrant community and lead to widespread abuse.
Immigrants rights advocates and day laborers gathered at the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office to protest Sheriff Kim Guadagno's application for the federal 287(g) program, which deputizes local law enforcement officers as federal immigration agents.