NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill Launches Portal to Track Ice Agents
“They will pick people up, they will not tell us who they are … they’ll pick up American citizens. They picked up a five-year-old child.”
Pumped up by her landslide victory over Republican businessman Jack Ciattarelli in November, newly minted New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has already ripped off the mask of moderation she presented to voters throughout her campaign. To no one’s surprise, Sherrill announced the launch of a portal to track and report ICE agents operating in her state. During a Wednesday interview with The Daily Show host Desi Lydic, Sherrill said, “We are going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people. Like, if you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out.”
Sherrill also drew comparisons between ICE and the secret police agencies she observed during her Naval deployments. She told Lydic, “We saw people in the street with masks and no insignia. So not accountable at all, hiding from the population – and we saw again and again an undermining of what law enforcement should do to keep people safe.”
“We are putting out information helping New Jerseyans know their rights,” Sherrill noted. “We are not going to allow any ICE raids to be staged from state properties.”
In footage that did not appear in the TV interview but was later available on YouTube, Sherrill said, “They [federal agents] will pick people up, they will not tell us who they are … they’ll pick up American citizens.”
“They picked up a five-year-old child,” she claimed, repeating a now-debunked story that ICE agents had arrested a five-year-old in Minneapolis last week. The allegation went viral overnight on social media. By the following morning, however, the truth had emerged: the child’s father, fleeing from ICE agents, had abandoned his son on a city street in single-digit temperatures. When agents tried to return the child to his mother, those inside the home refused to open the door.
The New York Post reached out to Sherrill’s office for comment. Spokesperson Sean Higgins responded with the following statement:
Keeping New Jerseyans safe is Governor Sherrill’s top priority and, in the coming days, she and Acting Attorney General Davenport will announce additional actions to protect New Jerseyans from federal overreach. … We want documentation, and we are going to make sure we get it.
[The full interview can be viewed here.]
"If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out." Governor Mikie Sherrill (@GovSherrillNJ) shares how she's preparing for potential ICE crackdowns while ensuring that New Jersey residents know their rights pic.twitter.com/E6qDMBGdoc
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 29, 2026
And with those words, the New Jersey governor joined the new confederacy, the growing number of Democrats working to obstruct the deportation of millions of illegal aliens who were allowed into the country during the Biden administration.
And just as the original Democrat-led Confederacy resisted federal authority in order to preserve slavery, today’s Democrats are not only resisting federal authority to shield illegal aliens from deportation, they are actively impeding the government’s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
They are trying to exempt themselves and their constituents from federal law, which is the very definition of a confederacy.
Democrats rail against the commotion caused by the surge of ICE agents into Minneapolis over the past month. In particular, they blame the deaths of agitators Renee Good and Alex Pretti on ICE agents.
But, it’s highly likely that both Good and Pretti would be alive today if state and local leaders had allowed federal agents into their jails to pick up criminal illegal aliens with detainers on them. Not only does trying to locate and detain an individual in the community require as many as 16 agents rather than the one needed to pick up a criminal from jail, it also increases the odds that someone is going to get hurt.
Contrary to the innocent, selfless images Democrats have tried to paint of Good and Pretti, the reality is far different. The truth is that both were members of highly coordinated and extremely motivated resistance groups dedicated to obstructing and impeding the work of ICE agents.
If Pretti had been arrested by Minneapolis police on January 13 for spitting on ICE agents and kicking out the tail light of their vehicle in a rage, he might have reconsidered the foolish actions that led to his death 11 days later.
He should have been arrested. He had certainly crossed the line from protest into unlawful behavior. Unfortunately, there were no city police officers on the scene to make an arrest. They’d been ordered not to assist federal agents.
The consequences of that political choice are no longer theoretical. By ordering state and local law enforcement to stand down, Democratic officials have replaced orderly enforcement with chaos in the streets, forcing federal agents into dangerous confrontations that need never have occurred.
This is not compassion, nor is it public safety. It is defiance masquerading as virtue. When governors and mayors instruct their police to obstruct federal law, they are not protecting communities; they are gambling with lives, including the lives of those they later rush to canonize. The bloodshed that follows is not an accident. It is the predictable outcome of a deliberate refusal to enforce the law.
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Good.
Now arrest her for aiding and abetting the illegal aliens.
“. . . Sherrill announced the launch of a portal to track and report ICE agents operating in her state.”
Hmmm, someone has forgotten her oath already,
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.”
Article VI,
Arrest this vile, communist POS.
She isn’t doing that. She’s aiding the perfectly legal and constitutionally protected spread of information.
She’s assisting by launching a portal that’s primarily only useful for purposes of terrorism.
Not true. It’s useful for legitimate protest.
In any case, it doesn’t matter what it’s useful for. She has the constitutional right to launch it.
This certainly goes far beyond non-cooperation. In fact, she seems to be coordinating with criminal elements who are trying to impede the enforcement of federal law
In context, yes. Seize all her comms to see if the purpose of the portal was discussed and if it was mentioned that this is either for the harassment of ICE and/or they acknowledged they know how it will be used. Without proof, they will only say “We’re doing this to facilitate the exercise of 1st Amendment rights.”
RICO! And I don’t mean Suave!
What a tw*t.
There’s no evidence for that.
If I wasn’t afraid of retribution I would love to put together a map to track her location in real time. It would be great to get her reaction to be shadowed as well as where she lives and her patterns of travel.
Remember:
No democrat is a moderate. Not one
No democrat is left of center. Not one.
All democrats are firmly left and most are far left.
That’s a bit beyond simply not cooperating with Federal enforcement of immigration law. Seems as if the Govt of NJ wants a nullification crisis. I wonder how many of the folks pushing this sort of ‘resistance’ of immigration enforcement would support similar actions to ‘resist’ federal firearms laws? I suspect not very many.
The Left wants a Civil War. They believe they will win it by inviting the U.N. to provide troops to support the Left and fight the Government of the U.S. since they will be “victims”.
They don’t have to involve the UN.
They’re already swearing in non-citizens as police officers.
And the “fact checkers” scream that these hires don’t include ILLEGAL aliens… but don’t gaslight me.
The forces the UN uses for peacekeeping are pushovers with little beyond light infantry. Any real forces have always been US led and staffed. They also seem to be either lazy or cowards. See their nonperformance in Lebanon.
You forgot the rape and support of terrorism.
The IQ of UN Forces is generally on par with Somalia. They only become UN Forces because they get fed, and are good at raping women.
TBH I believe the leftists like the idea of confrontation but not the reality of one. They have this image in their mind which doesn’t/won’t match reality. Kinda like how a few women want a big, lavish wedding but not the very hard work of the marriage. I’d be more concerned with the development of their ability to engage in asymmetric tactics of mob anarchy with the occasional assassination and bombing thrown in. That stresses the govt b/c they gotta be careful not to overreact with kinetic tactics. IMO the way to defeat this crap is signals intelligence, surveillance and connecting the dots between organizers, financiers and street level black bloc goons. ID them, build the case, arrest them, disrupt their organization, infiltrate their cells, seize assets and max prosecution without any remorse. The alternatives are gun them down in the street Nationwide or let them win and neither of those is very palatable.
Renee Good-for-nothing’s paramour: “You’re using real bullets??!!”
The level of democrat and AWFUL stupidity knows no bounds.
Those blue helmets would make such nice target practice
No, it isn’t. Telling everyone where you have seen policemen is protected speech.
It is NOT legal to tell where police are for the purposes of evading them. In some jurisdictions, that is considered aiding and abetting if there is a felony involved.
On the contrary, it’s protected speech. NO jurisdiction is allowed to prevent it or punish it in any way.
Directly telling an individual, knowing that that person is on the run, is a different story.
You’d think the first thing a new governor of New Jersey would do is to allow her citizens to pump their own gasoline but apparently there are no adults in New Jersey, hence a governor by the name of Mikie. Sweetheart, you should have ditched the nickname in Jr. High.
I’m ready for the federal government to make an example of one of these preening idiots who seem to think that federal laws are optional for illegal aliens and themselves.
If by “make an example” you mean trial by military tribunal, and public execution by guillotine,then I totally agree
IMO the punishment MUSt have sufficient moment to deter…
No, she’s right.
People who elect a governor like her are too stupid to pump gas safely.
“Pumped up by her landslide victory over Republican”
I for one do NOT accept this as fact
I think the author should look up the definition of “confederacy.” A “confederacy” is merely a group of entities joined in a cause and/or for mutual assistance. The Confederate States of America was a confederacy, but so was (and is) the United States of America. “Confederated” means “joined together by agreement or treaty.” It does not connote “rebellion” or “seditious” (as it seems the author believes).
I think if the phrase had been written as “the new Confederacy,” with a capital “c,” that would address your point. Ms. Stauffer’s intent was clearly to fairly connect the Dhimmi-crats’ present insurrection with that of the Dhimmi-crats’ creation of a southern Confederacy/Confederate State of America.
If that’s what they’re doing, tell them they can have it and invite them to leave.
No, the US is NOT a “confederacy.” That was settled with the fight over the Constitution. It is a federation. The Articles of Confederacy made for a weak, vulnerable, and incohesive country.
They were the Articles of Confederation, not of “Confederacy”.
Dave is correct; the USA is a confederacy, which means exactly the same thing as federation
The Dem Party fades away without illegal aliens voting now and , with amnesty, definitely later. This is their hill to make their stand on. Their lies are their foundation. The irony is that should they win, ultimately all of these Karens, Kens and AWFULs will be displaced in the Party… no longer needed and unforgiven for being “too white”. The minute that database is shared with “the resistance” then she is seditionist. Already, the Left has created a huge database of fed vehicles…. so huge one has to think collusion from within the state governments.
Neo-communist Dhimmi-crats are gonna dhimmi. No surprises, there.
Any voter who earnestly believes that there is such a thing as an allegedly “moderate” or “centrist” Dhimmi-crat, is a gullible fool.
Newt Gingrich has come out for support of “non-criminal” illegal aliens allowed to stay… and ..well..Newt doesn’t understand that he is helping destroy the country just at a slower rate. RINO is as RINO does.
Yep that’s a non starter and completely unacceptable to me. Every last illegal alien gotta get out, one way or the other.
As a practical matter, some will probably stay. Some might even manage to get some sort of legal status later in life. But only as a practical matter, because no law enforcement can ever be 100%. The law should be enforced with an eye towards removing every single last one, by force, if necessary. Newt saying stupid crap like this is why he was turned out back then.
Still waiting for RINOgrich to fulfill his “Contract with America.”
Which part of it was not fulfilled?
STFU Newt. You’ve had your run.
There is a vulnerability to all of these ICE tracking sites. They are subject to being manipulated. This could be the basis of a rope-a-dope strategy by DHS with the eventual goal of the professional and amateur protestors getting wearied.
So New Jersey is joing the New Confederacy
Maybe up to 8 states who want to keep Illegals to fight the Union?
I want the Federal Government to arrest every person or state and local government member that is supporting illegal aliens through sanctuary policies, and having things like this. The arrest should be for sedition.
Start with the judges.
That would be make whoever made such arrests a criminal. Sanctuary policies are protected by the constitution.
I’m in Jersey and word on the street is the portals going to be overflowing with pictures of bags of ice, ice covered streets, ice in freezers, icicles, ice cream, etc etc.
Ice Ice Baby!
Does they have a penis?
I have it on good authority that her brain fell out of her vagina. So, my guess would be no.
Sherrill announced the launch of a portal to track and report ICE agents operating in her state. There are about 3,000 ICE agents operating in NJ whom she says are often not in uniform and do not display badges.
There are also 5,000 plainclothes detectives in NJ who never wear uniforms nor display badges and thousands more police officers riding around in unmarked vehicles. “I don’t need a portal for those,” she says, “because I could stop that any time I want, but don’t care.”
Paula: “Why do you care about the first but not the second?”
Sherrill: “Well, duh. They arrest illegals.”
The 1860’s Confederacy was contiguous. However, the new Democrat confederacy is scattered in islands and archipelagos in a Red sea. What this means is that if the balloon goes up, it will be rapidly sliced into pieces. “Divide et impera.”
Stupid AWFUL broad.
Rescind the ridiculous 19th amendment.
A disgrace to her naval service and oaths to the Constitution.
She wasted no time…because it was all planned in advance of her getting elected. Investigate her, bring her in, and so on and so forth.
No, they are not. Reporting things that one sees on the street is protected by the first amendment.
So why didn’t the ICE agents arrest him? They certainly had the legal authority to do so. They witnessed him commit a federal crime. Had he been in a cell he would not have been in a position to get himself shot.
Because it is much better that he is dead. Well deserved I might add.