Deputies for New Jersey's deputy, Alina Haba, announced an investigation into Phil Murphy, the state's Democratic government this week after ordering state police not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
“[US Attorney General] Pam Bondi revealed that, and so does our president, we are taking all criminals, violent criminals, criminals from this country and enforcing federal laws in full,” Haba told Fox News' Sean Hannity on his Primetime Show.
Habba said the investigation would consider Murphy and New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on instructions to state police not to cooperate with federal agencies on immigration enforcement.
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Alina Habba will speak after being sworn in as interim New Jersey counsel on March 28, 2025 in the White House oval office in Washington. (Pool file via AP)
Under the 2018 “Immigration Trust Order” issued by former New Jersey Attorney General Gerville Growal, “voluntary cooperation” between state and local police with federal authorities is limited.
While handcuffing state police to immigration enforcement, Platkin ordered an investigation into a division led by Obama's director Preet Bharara and allegedly delayed traffic enforcement after being charged with racial profiling from Platkin's office.
Fox News Digital reached out to Murphy and Platkin's offices.
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will make a state speech to the joint meeting of the State Capitol in Trenton, New Jersey on January 9, 2024. (AP)
Several other states, cities and police departments have adopted similar measures to support “administrative warrants” for civil violations of immigration law, but they say they will fully cooperate with federal authorities on “judicial warrants” issued in aggressive criminal cases.
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New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin spoke with then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on March 21, 2024. (Mandel nkan/AFP via Getty Images)
However, the Trump administration says it targets known criminals for deportation, and not everyone with a criminal history has an active judicial warrant.
On March 26, Ice Enforcement and Removal Operations Agent announced the arrest of a Chinese spy who was convicted a year after his trial. He was on probation and now remains in the US, he will be deported, Ice Ero Newark field director John Tsukaris said in a statement.
New Jersey federal agents were arrested on March 6, 2025 by a Turkish citizen hoping to commit murder in his country. (FBI)
Venezuela's illegal Jose Ibarra, who was convicted of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, had multiple habituations with US law enforcement in at least two states before he killed her. He had been released from detention at least once before ICE was able to file detainee requests in the NYPD.
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Trump has campaigned to put an end to the forced forced criminals, highlighting cases like Rayleigh, Rachel Morin and Jocelyn Nungarei.
Jose Ibarra will appear in trial in Athens, Georgia on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 in Athens, Georgia. (via Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal Constitution, AP, pool
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Morin's rape and murder suspect Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez is currently on trial in Maryland. At the time of her death he was suspected of the murder of another woman in El Salvador. Before his arrest, he was accused of raping a California woman and her nine-year-old daughter.
“Anyone who gets in the way of what we're doing is, it's not political, it's just a crime — in New Jersey, you're charged for cover-up,” Haba told Hannity.
