On a sunny day in late October, Pastor Jean Maurice stood outside the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Newark, along with other organizers, demanding a fair asylum process and an end evictions. Amid rising violence in Haiti and a recent migration crisis, Maurice said he felt the need to speak up for his fellow Haitians who have no voice.

“The Biden administration has not been cooperative enough to work in partnership with the diaspora,” said Maurice, pastor at Brick Church of the Temple of the United Christians in East Orange, New Jersey. “The administration must order internal security to work in partnership with [resettlement] organizations and churches so that we can resettle these people equitably.

As president of the Association of Haitian Pastors of NJ, Maurice worked with immigrant rights groups and other activists to organize the Demonstration of October 22. This is just the start of this coalition’s advocacy efforts, the northern New Jersey man said.

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