The New Jersey Senate on Monday is set to vote on a series of measures aimed at blocking any local effects stemming from President Donald Trump’s recent attempts to boost the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Democrats who control the Legislature introduced the measures shortly after Trump, on Jan. 27, issued an executive order effectively banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim Middle Eastern countries. Since then, immigration agents from the federal Department of Homeland Security have been conducting raids around the country targeting undocumented immigrants.

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