Posted on 11/29/2018 1:54:53 PM PST by SMGFan
New Jersey's attorney general unveiled a broad new directive Thursday limiting when local police can ask someone's immigration status and turn unauthorized immigrants over to federal officials for deportation.
Standing in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said the new rules -- called the Immigrant Trust Directive -- are designed to improve relations between local police and immigrant communities.
The new rules will draw "a bright line" between federal immigration officials and local police at a time when immigrants are growing more fearful of deportation and federal crackdowns on illegal immigration, Grewal said.
"No law-abiding resident of this great state should live in fear that a routine traffic stop by local police will result in his or her deportation from this country," Grewal said.
Officials with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency slammed the attorney general for rules they say will hinder ICE and undermine public safety.
"Ultimately, this directive shields certain criminal aliens, creating a state-sanctioned haven for those seeking to evade federal authorities, all at the expense of the safety and security of the very people the New Jersey Attorney General is charged with protecting," said Matthew Albence, an ICE deputy director.
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Demonrat NJ AG aiding and abetting criminal illegals in defiance of federal laws. When will he be arrested ?
Why not just trust the local police in conservative states to do the job and focus all their federal resources on uncooperative blue states such as California and New Jersey?
Illegal Aliens are Not law abiding residents!!!
This country is doomed.
Their presence in the state and country proves they are not law abiding. The AG is as big a commie as the toothy horses ass of a governor.
Thye feds can stop this crap cold if anyone had any balls, Just ARREST and PROSECUTE every Government Official and Police Officer that EVER comes in contact with an Illegal Alien as an Accessory to Human Smuggling and various other immigration laws. MAKE THEM CHOOSE Illegals or PRISON!!
As if NJ wasn’t bad enough with its DemonRat legislators, we had to get
a flaming Goofball for a Governor.
Illegal immigrants are neither law abiding nor citizens.
“Why not just trust the local police in conservative states to do the job and focus all their federal resources on uncooperative blue states such as California and New Jersey?”
EXACTLY, and start picking them up in those states even when they HAVE NOT committed a non-immigration related crime - in other words, start picking them up simply for being in this country Illegally. It’s very easy with this bunch - if they don’t speak English, they’re likely not here legally.
[”No law-abiding resident of this great state should live in fear that a routine traffic stop by local police will result in his or her deportation from this country,” Grewal said. ]
Fascinating statement.
So why would the feds continue to provide law enforcement grants, aid and equipment to NJ? Mr President???
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