U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has launched an investigation into New Jersey Governor Chris Murphy (D) for refusing to cooperate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities.
“We know that the governor has on his website currently do’s and don’ts for his local state of law enforcement,” Habba told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “Those do’s and don’ts instruct them not to cooperate with illegal immigrants who have administrative warrants that have been issued by the court after due process saying that they are no longer welcome here.”
“They have gone through the court system. They are to be deported. It is instructing them to go against our federal rules, our executive orders,” she said.
Habba noted that she wants the announcement of the investigation to “be a warning for everybody.”
“I am unfortunately going to announce on your show tonight, Sean, and I want it to be a warning for everybody, that I have instructed my office today to open an investigation into Gov. Murphy, to open an investigation into Attorney General Platkin, who has also instructed the state police not to assist any of our federal — and they list our federal agencies that are under my direction, the FBI, the DEA all of these individuals that are trying to clean up our streets in New Jersey – not to cooperate. That will no longer stand,” she explained.
The attorney added that the refusal to cooperate “will no longer stand,” declaring that Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump have made it clear that “we are to take all criminal, violent criminals and criminals out of this country and to completely enforce federal law, and anybody who does get in that way, in the way of what we are doing, which is not political, it is simply against crime, will be charged in the state of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment, and I will come after them hard.”
President Trump has also warned that sanctuary cities may lose federal funding. “No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims,” he wrote on Truth Social. “They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!”
