Trump Administration Sues Murphy and Grewal over Sanctuary State Policies
The U.S. Justice Department sued the State of New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy and NJ Attorney General Gurbir Grewal yesterday, seeking to halt the elements of Grewal’s Immigrant Trust Directive which 1) prohibit law enforcement officers from honoring ICE detention requests on illegal aliens in custody for other crimes and 2) require law enforcement officers to give those aliens written notice in their native language that ICE is looking for them.
“Jurisdictions that adopt sanctuary policies and instead release these criminals put all of Americans in harm’s way,” President Donald Trump said during remarks to the National Governors Association on Monday according to The Washington Post. “I know we have different policies, different feelings, different everything. But sanctuary cities are causing us a tremendous problem in this country. We have stone-cold killers that they don’t want to hand over to us and then they escape into communities and they cause, in some cases, tremendous havoc.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: February 11th, 2020 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: New Jersey | Tags: Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General William Barr, Governor Phil Murphy, Immigrant Trust Directive, New Jersey, President Donald Trump, Sanctuary State, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito | 2 Comments »