The Trump administration has frozen federal aid to organizations in support of immigrants, and it's having a dire effect on an organization in New Jersey dedicated to assisting refugees who are new to the U.S.

Interfaith Rise, which runs out of Highland Park, had to furlough 60 employees due to a lack of funding. The organization is run by Pastor Seth Kaper-Dale, with the Reformed Church of Highland Park.

“Less than two weeks ago, I laid off 20 people and reduced 20 positions to half-time," says Kaper-Dale. “We are furloughing people. And so the state of New Jersey should be concerned. That means there are a whole lot of people being added to unemployment right now.”

In January, days after the president was sworn in, funding from the State Department for support and placement of refugees was frozen.

The nonprofit is owed $1.3 million for January - plus hundreds of thousands of more dollars for December.

Kaper Dale has recently penned a letter to Gov. Phil Murphy requesting immediate state funding, which would not only help the 3,500 refugees this organization supports but also the services rendered to 75 victims of human trafficking.

Kaper-Dale expressed his frustration with the new administration saying, “My guess is that somebody did a word search and any place where the word ‘refugee’ or ‘immigrant’ or be ‘nice to somebody else’ came up they decided that money is not going to be freed for those organizations to be kind in those ways.”

Also related to the president’s executive orders, state Attorney General Matthew Platkin was in Massachusetts to push a lawsuit to stop an order that would end birthright citizenship.

“The president, as powerful as he is, is not a king. And he cannot rewrite the Constitution overnight with the stroke of a pen," Platkin said standing alongside the Massachusetts state attorney general.

In New Jersey, 6,200 children each year are protected by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, granting citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Under that order, those children born to undocumented immigrants would have no status and no home.