Hightstown, NJ Reviews

location location location - 8/18/2010
Hightstown is located in the middle between Phila and NYC and half an hour from the Jersey Shore. Theater, concerts, museums, Six Flags, historic sites, great restaurants, you're never Read More

embracing illegal aliens - 4/12/2007
I don't live there. I was going to buy a home when I read this article from msn.com. I decided that the risks to the home values and tax rates was too great.
Updated: 3:31 a.m. ET April 10, 2007
HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - After federal agents launched a massive raid on an apartment complex here two years ago, other illegal immigrants in this quiet town near Princeton University grew so wary of the law, authorities say, that many began hiding behind headstones in a local cemetery when patrol cars approached.

But these days, the immigrants of Hightstown are more likely to be the ones calling the cops. In the aftermath of a series of raids in 2004, the town council in this historic borough of 5,300 -- transformed in recent years by an influx of at least 1,300 Latin Americans -- unanimously approved a sort of immigrant bill of rights. Joining a growing list of cities enacting a no-questions-asked policy on immigration status, Hightstown now allows its undocumented Read More