Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s is getting blasted for her state’s “sanctuary” policies after an illegal immigrant driver fleeing a stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crashed into and injured a local mayor’s wife.
“This is just the latest in a long line of traffic incidents and vehicular incidents that wouldn’t occur if New Jersey didn’t have our sanctuary status that got codified as soon as Gov. Sherrill came into office,” Republican Assemblyman Paul Kanitra told Fox News Digital.
“We all fought against it. We told them that this would create chaos, and it seems like Democrats are unable to take accountability for their own actions,” the Point Pleasant Beach lawmaker added.
The broadside came after ICE officers conducted a targeted operation involving the driver of an Acura on Route 130 in North Brunswick on Sept. 2.
ICE said they believed the driver to be an illegal immigrant, and he refused orders to get out of the vehicle before officers attempted to remove him.
He then sped away and ran a red light before colliding with a Tesla driven by Dr. Penelope Cohen, wife of East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen, according to local accounts.
Penelope Cohen suffered a leg injury and was taken to the hospital, News 12 New Jersey reported. The Acura driver fled on foot before ICE officers apprehended him shortly afterward.
The driver has not been publicly identified. ICE said he was arrested for violating US immigration law and would remain in custody pending removal proceedings. --->READ MORE HERE
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An illegal immigrant fled ICE agents and crashed into a Democratic mayor's wife on a New Jersey highway, reigniting the sanctuary state debate
Sanctuary policies are leading to dangerous situations by making it harder for ICE to do its job, Republican critics argued after an illegal immigrant fled agents and crashed on a major New Jersey highway, injuring the wife of a Democratic mayor.
The Wednesday crash is fueling a renewed fight over New Jersey's limits on cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Republicans are arguing Sherrill's approval of the "Trust Directive" creates public-safety risks by limiting the ability of ICE to work with police officers. They also contend that Democrats are wrongheaded to respond to such incidents by calling for ICE's abolition rather than stronger enforcement.
"This is just the latest in a long line of traffic incidents and vehicular incidents that wouldn't occur if New Jersey didn't have our sanctuary status that got codified as soon as Gov. Sherrill came into office," Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Point Pleasant Beach, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview Friday.
"We all fought against it. We told them that this would create chaos, and it seems like Democrats are unable to take accountability for their own actions."
Kanitra said Sherrill and other Democrats have been unable to recognize the connection between their support for the "Trust Directive" sanctuary policy — signed into law by the governor this year — and incidents such as the one in Middlesex County this week.
"Democrats seemingly have an inability to take accountability for their own actions here. They're unable to even recognize the chaos that they're creating, and they're shouting and screaming at everybody else trying to find somebody to blame. It's somewhat ridiculous," Kanitra said.
"You kind of reap what you sow," he said, adding that at least two people in his district have been killed in incidents connected to illegal immigrants behind the wheel.
Kanitra also pointed to a separate case in his county in which an illegal immigrant allegedly drove a vehicle into a family outside a kosher supermarket, killing an infant.
"They got behind the wheel, and they wound up killing an innocent toddler in the process," he said, calling the circumstances of the situation "absolutely abhorrent." --->READ MORE HERE
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