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New Jersey’s ‘Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act’

Brent Johnson, NJ.com (subscription required; syndicated via Yahoo):

As Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey consider a flurry of proposals to push back against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, one bears a provocative name that’s being either praised as bold or derided as vulgar.

The measure is called the “Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act.”

Or, the “F**K ICE Act,” if you read between the lines.

Yes, it’s real. This may be the New Jersey-est thing New Jersey has done. Let’s hope more states follow suit.

I’m quite disappointed that news outlets are censoring the name of the act. The New York Times can’t even bring itself to do that much, referring to it instead as “a bill that is encoded with an unsubtle message” and “the legislation, known by its blunt acronym.” Name it. It’s the F.U.C.K.I.C.E. Act.

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