NJ governor accused of harboring violent illegal criminals, DOJ launches probe

Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced a probe into the state's Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week aft helium ordered authorities constabulary not to cooperate with national migration enforcement.

"[US Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear, and truthful has our president, that we are to instrumentality each criminals, convulsive criminals and criminals, retired of this state and to wholly enforce national law," Habba told Fox News' Sean Hannity connected his primetime amusement Thursday.

Habba said the probe volition look astatine Murphy arsenic good arsenic New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin implicit alleged instructions to authorities constabulary not to cooperate with immoderate national agencies connected migration enforcement.

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Alina Habba speaks aft being sworn successful arsenic interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, connected March 28, 2025. (Pool File via AP)

Under a 2018 "Immigrant Trust Directive" issued by erstwhile New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, "voluntary cooperation" betwixt authorities and section constabulary with national authorities is constricted – ostensibly truthful that illegals who are the victims of crimes are not acrophobic to study incidents to police.

While handcuffing authorities constabulary connected migration enforcement, Platkin has besides ordered an probe into the section led by Obama-appointee Preet Bharara into allegations that they slowed down postulation enforcement aft being accused – by Platkin's bureau – of radical profiling. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Murphy and Platkin.

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his State of the State code to a associated league of the Legislature astatine the statehouse, successful Trenton, N.J., Jan. 9, 2024. (AP)

Some different states, cities and constabulary departments astir the state person adopted akin measures against assisting with "administrative warrants" for civilian violations of migration law, but accidental they volition afloat cooperate with national authorities connected "judicial warrants," which are issued successful progressive transgression cases.

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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, with then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaks during a property league successful Washington, DC, connected March 21, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

However, the Trump medication says it is targeting known criminals for deportation, and not everyone with a transgression past has an progressive judicial warrant.

On March 26, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents announced the apprehension of a convicted Chinese spy a twelvemonth aft his trial. He was serving probation and remained successful the U.S. Now helium volition to beryllium deported, ICE ERO Newark Field Director John Tsoukaris said successful a statement. 

Federal agents successful New Jersey apprehension a Turkish national wanted for execution successful his location state connected March 6, 2025.  (FBI)

Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan amerciable convicted of sidesplitting Georgia nursing pupil Laken Riley, had aggregate run-ins with U.S. instrumentality enforcement successful astatine slightest 2 states earlier helium murdered her. He had been released from custody astatine slightest erstwhile earlier ICE could lodge a detainer petition with the NYPD.

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Trump campaigned connected putting an extremity to unvetted amerciable migration and deporting known criminals, highlighting cases similar Riley's, Rachel Morin's and Jocelyn Nungaray's. 

Jose Ibarra appears astatine his proceedings astatine the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court connected Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, successful Athens, Ga. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

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The fishy successful Morin's rape and murder, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, is presently connected proceedings successful Maryland. At the clip of her death, helium was suspected of different woman's execution successful El Salvador. Before his arrest, helium was besides accused of raping a California pistillate and her nine-year-old daughter. 

"Anybody who does . . . get successful the mode of what we are doing — which is not political, it is simply against transgression — volition beryllium charged successful the authorities of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment," Habba told Hannity.