He's issued directives to police across the state that they better not cooperate with federal immigration officials and if they do, he's threatening action against their departments.
In a Facebook post on Monday, the GOP candidate called out AG Gurbir Grewal and asked for him to step down.
So because law enforcement officers in New Jersey are doing their jobs by working with federal ICE agents to help arrest and deport people who are actively breaking the law, the attorney general, who is supposed to work to uphold the Constitution is threatening them?
In a pair of aggressive letters that Grewal's office sent to the elected sheriffs in Monmouth and Cape May, officials claim the county sheriffs went directly against a directive that Grewal had issued which would aim to limit cooperation between New Jersey cops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Grewal's office now says that working with federal officials in this capacity would "Essentially deputize our state's police officers to act like ICE agents." Grewal says that the measure was supposed to build trust between the immigrant communities and law enforcement for reporting and helping with criminal investigations.
Citizens even petitioned to put the directive to a vote, claiming that Grewal's agenda was not what the state wanted.
Now the AG has given these two counties a deadline of August 6 to provide detailed info on their continued efforts to work alongside ICE. And he says if they don't meet that deadline - he'll issue a new directive completely banning officers within those departments from any cooperation with ICE. Funny how just last week he tweeted about successfully working with federal and local agencies to reduce crime in the state.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/state-ag-police-better-obey-my-rules-or-else-cops-time-for-you-to-resign/
In a Facebook post on Monday, the GOP candidate called out AG Gurbir Grewal and asked for him to step down.
So because law enforcement officers in New Jersey are doing their jobs by working with federal ICE agents to help arrest and deport people who are actively breaking the law, the attorney general, who is supposed to work to uphold the Constitution is threatening them?
In a pair of aggressive letters that Grewal's office sent to the elected sheriffs in Monmouth and Cape May, officials claim the county sheriffs went directly against a directive that Grewal had issued which would aim to limit cooperation between New Jersey cops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Grewal's office now says that working with federal officials in this capacity would "Essentially deputize our state's police officers to act like ICE agents." Grewal says that the measure was supposed to build trust between the immigrant communities and law enforcement for reporting and helping with criminal investigations.
Citizens even petitioned to put the directive to a vote, claiming that Grewal's agenda was not what the state wanted.
Now the AG has given these two counties a deadline of August 6 to provide detailed info on their continued efforts to work alongside ICE. And he says if they don't meet that deadline - he'll issue a new directive completely banning officers within those departments from any cooperation with ICE. Funny how just last week he tweeted about successfully working with federal and local agencies to reduce crime in the state.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/state-ag-police-better-obey-my-rules-or-else-cops-time-for-you-to-resign/
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