After 13 years, the Essex County Correctional Facility will no longer house people awaiting immigrant court proceedings. The county stopped accepting new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in April. Since then, some bonded out, others were deported and the rest were relocated to other detention centers. The remaining 11 detainees were transferred out of the state on Tuesday morning, county officials said. 

"We have always maintained that this was in the best interest of the detainees to remain close to their family, friends, attorneys and community organizations helping them in a facility that was safe and secure," Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo Jr. said in a statement. "Our ECCF fulfilled this responsibility very well and we thank ICE for their partnership."

The end of the county's lucrative ICE contract comes as Bergen County also stopped taking new detainees in the spring and Hudson County capped its number of jailed immigrants at 50. A private detention center in Elizabeth extended its ICE contract through 2023 last week, ICE confirmed.

Lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban future ICE deals and extensions in the state. Gov. Phil Murphy has yet to sign it.