Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, this week announced that her office is investigating Gov. Phil Murphy and state Attorney General Matt Platkin over a directive to local law enforcement to not cooperate with immigration officials.
Earlier this month, New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick Callahan issued an internal memo instructing officers not to act on immigration warrants that were recently added to a federal database.
The memo states that accessing these warrants may be a violation of New Jersey’s 2018 Immigrant Trust Directive, which was issued by Platkin’s predecessor and prohibits state, county, and local law enforcement from acting on administrative warrants like those uploaded to the database without a valid judicial warrant.
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