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Burlco Restaurant Week Starts Sunday!
More than 80 restaurants have signed up for BurlCo Restaurant Week, which kicks off Sun Aug 3rd through Sat Aug 9th. Have you made your reservations yet? Check out the list of participating restaurants and their specials offered here: https://www.co.burlington.nj.us/1844/Restaurant-Week
Decried as ‘Garden State Gulag,’ South Jersey military base that will house undocumented immigrants faces continued criticism
The South Jersey military base that’ll become a deportation center for undocumented immigrants has earned a new and uncomplimentary nickname: the “Garden State Gulag.”
Rep. Herb Conaway Jr., a Democrat whose Burlington County district includes what’s now called Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst where the facility will be created, invented the sobriquet in a statement Monday. He serves on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
“First, they made 'Alligator Alcatraz,’” Conaway said, referring to a controversial new detention center in the Florida Everglades. “Now, it’s the Garden State Gulag … [which] I oppose … in the strongest possible terms.”