BY DIANE C. WALSH
Star-Ledger Staff

Civil rights advocates are planning to rally in New Brunswick today in hopes of persuading the Middlesex freeholders to end a lucrative federal contract to house immigration detainees at the county corrections center.

The rally outside the Middlesex County Administration Building is the latest in a series of demonstrations organized by the Piscataway-based New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee since the death of a 72-year-old Cuban who had been in the county facility in North Brunswick, awaiting deportation after several drug-dealing convictions.

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