New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s anti-ICE policies after an illegal alien crashed on a highway, injuring a Democrat mayor’s wife.
The illegal alien fled during a targeted ICE operation. The person zoomed onto U.S. 130, where they crashed into a Tesla after running a stoplight.
Dr. Penelope Cohen, the wife of East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen, was in the Tesla. Doctors treated her at the hospital.
Republicans are furious at Sherrill, who has limited cooperation with local and federal law enforcement. From Fox News:
The Wednesday crash is fueling a renewed fight over New Jersey’s limits on cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Republicans are arguing Sherrill’s approval of the “Trust Directive” creates public-safety risks by limiting the ability of ICE to work with police officers. They also contend that Democrats are wrongheaded to respond to such incidents by calling for ICE’s abolition rather than stronger enforcement.”This is just the latest in a long line of traffic incidents and vehicular incidents that wouldn’t occur if New Jersey didn’t have our sanctuary status that got codified as soon as Gov. Sherrill came into office,” Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Point Pleasant Beach, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview Friday.
State Republican Sen. Mike Testa also blasted New Jersey Democrat Rep. Bonnie Watson-Coleman, who wants the government to abolish ICE:
“I think it has only emboldened illegal aliens to engage in illegal behavior,” Testa said. “This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”This is just another example of lawlessness,” he continued. “And sadly, there’s been a stamp of approval from radical leftists like Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman saying ICE should be abolished rather than actually punishing the criminal that put multiple citizens’ lives at risk.”
In January, Sherrill launched a portal to track ICE agents, allowing people to upload videos and alert people.
Sherrill also issued Executive Order 12, which limits cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement and expands sanctuary status.
The Executive Order allows arrests only in public areas if “authorized by a judicial warrant or judicial order.”
The DOJ sued New Jersey over the executive order.
The DOJ says the Executive Order obstructs the federal government from performing lawful operations:
The New Jersey Executive Order obstructs such operations in at least three ways. First, the New Jersey Executive Order prohibits federal immigration agents from accessing non-public areas at all. Second, the New Jersey Executive Order prohibits any court security staff that are members of “Executive Branch departments and agencies,” from cooperating with federal immigration agents for the purpose of civil immigration enforcement. Third, even as to entering and exiting the building, federal immigration agents are restricted from accessing non-public entrances and exits. There is no indication on the face of the New Jersey Executive Order that officials working for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, and Firearms, or the Federal Bureau of Investigations are subjected to similar regulation and discrimination.
A judge tossed the lawsuit a few days ago.
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