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— Hudson County and city officials said they will implement new safety measures in Lincoln Park following last week’s sexual assault and murder of a woman who was jogging in the county park. In a packed meeting Tuesday night at the Hank Gallo Community Center in the park, elected officials discussed the park’s safety after Carolina Cano was sexually assaulted and strangled in the park during her 5:30 a.m. jog on March 24. Cano’s body was recovered from the park’s lake a couple hours later.

Jersey City’s sanctuary city policy is facing scrutiny this week following the revelation that the alleged Lincoln Park killer is an undocumented immigrant who has been deported twice. The policy, enacted via executive order by Mayor Steve Fulop in February 2017 and endorsed unanimously by the City Council, was intended to illustrate that Jersey City is a welcoming city to immigrants, its supporters say. But critics slam it as evidence that Democrats like Fulop aren’t thinking straight on immigration. Joshua Sotomayor Einstein, a Hoboken man and committee member with the New Jersey Republican Party, said Democrats act like any action...