Posted on 11/17/2018 8:23:15 PM PST by Coleus
Don Cresitello is not the kind of guy to say "I hate to say I told you so." In fact he takes great pleasure in doing so. And the Democratic former mayor of Morristown told you long ago that we need better coordination between local and federal authorities when it comes to dealing with potentially violent undocumented immigrants.
That was proven against last week when an undocumented Mexican immigrant murdered three people in Missouri after being released from the Middlesex County jail in December to await trial on charges of domestic violence.
That incident brought memories of a 2007 incident in which an undocumented alien from Peru led a gang that killed three college students in a Newark schoolyard. Jose Carranza had been released from the Essex County jail a few months earlier.
At the time, then-Mayor Cresitello came to prominence by insisting that his town and the county needed to sign what is known as a 287(g) agreement with the feds. That status would permit the officers to be deputized as federal officials to enforce immigration laws.
But when Cresitello made his push, he found himself in a public fight with Chris Christie, then the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. Christie was laying the groundwork for a run for governor and trying to court the Latino vote. Christie accused Cresitello of "grandstanding." When he spoke at a church in Dover with a largely Latino congregation, Christie told the crowd that "being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime."
That's technically correct, but it brought him under fire from conservative commentators such as Lou Dobbs, who called him "out of his mind" and noted the paucity of immigration prosecutions during Christie's term as U.S. Attorney. (See video below)
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My Blood Pressure just went up again
Since all of this has started mine hasn’t gone down.
Why on EARTH are you wasting our time with an article from the anti-Republican, failing Marxist yellow rag Star Ledger for an analysis?
What will you post for an encore, an article by Gannett?
I don’t give a f*** what the Ledger or DemocRat Cresitello has to say about anything.
Well, at least they got the term half right.
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