GOP candidate rips blue state directive meddling in police force's cooperation with ICE: 'Handcuffed'

FIRST ON FOX: An email sent to New Jersey State Police unit revealed that officers were asked not to comply with national apprehension warrants, bringing attraction to the state’s "sanctuary" policies.

The email sent connected March 24 was made nationalist by Republican gubernatorial campaigner Jack Ciattarelli, who said helium does not responsibility the caput of the department, Col. Patrick Callahan, but the state’s policies that are successful place, arsenic good arsenic Democratic leaders.

"The information that my run received this email is grounds that brave and courageous instrumentality enforcement officers passim New Jersey are aggravated astir being handcuffed by wide Democrat policies successful Trenton, making our communities little safe," Ciattarelli said successful a statement.  

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Republican gubernatorial campaigner Jack Ciattarelli is joined by his woman Melinda arsenic helium speaks during a quality conference, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, successful Raritan, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

"The blasted goes to Governor Murphy, Attorney General Platkin, and the Democrat legislature for mandating absurd policies similar the Immigrant Trust Directive," the Republican continued.

"We volition beryllium partners with the Trump Administration successful fixing our migration strategy and reconstruct instrumentality and order," helium said if elected politician successful November, arsenic Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy volition beryllium termed retired of bureau aft serving 2 terms.

The email from Callahan, which was obtained from the Ciattarelli run and reviewed by Fox News Digital, said his squad is not legally permitted to travel "Outstanding Administrative Warrants of Removal from the United States," arsenic 27,000 "hits" were precocious added to the National Crime Information Center.

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Rabanales-Pretzantzin is primitively from Guatemala and entered the United States astatine the borderline successful El Paso, Texas, according to Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. (ICE)

"Taking instrumentality enforcement enactment by arresting a taxable based solely connected an ‘Outstanding Administrative Warrant’ would interruption the Attorney General’s Immigration Trust Directive," the email states. The email, which was sent retired to constabulary personnel, "operational dispatch units" and "public information telecommunicators," besides noted that NJSP employees cannot scope retired to Immigration and Customs Enforcement done the telephone fig given.

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Message sent by New Jersey State Police Superintendent Col. Patrick J. Callahan connected migration policies obtained by Fox News Digital. (New Jersey State Police, courtesy of Jack Ciattarelli )

The directive from the Attorney General’s Office says authorities successful New Jersey, astatine immoderate level of authorities too federal, tin assistance national instrumentality enforcement "when the sole intent of that assistance is to enforce national civilian migration law."

In the authorities governor's race, galore of the Democratic candidates' views disagree from the Trump administration's amerciable migration policies.

During a caller debate, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and Rep. Josh Gottheimer disagreed connected the Laken Riley Act, national bipartisan authorities signed by President Donald Trump that expands the crimes that could get idiosyncratic into custody of the Department of Homeland Security. 

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR SUGGESTS HE'S HOUSING A MIGRANT AT HIS HOME, TELLS FEDS 'GOOD LUCK' TRYING TO GET HER

Gov. Phil Murphy during an interrogation successful New York connected Nov. 22, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"The Laken Riley Act served to undermine the authorization of the lawyer wide present successful New Jersey," Fulop said astatine the time. "It is simply a precise unsafe portion of authorities arsenic it relates to autonomy of the politician and the lawyer wide here, and it should not person been supported."

Last month, Murphy suggested helium had a migrant surviving with him and it was unclear if the idiosyncratic was successful the state legally.

"Tammy [Murphy] and I were talking astir – I don’t privation to get into excessively overmuch detail, but determination is idiosyncratic successful our broader beingness whose migration presumption is not yet astatine the constituent that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you cognize what? Let's person her unrecorded astatine our location supra our garage," the Democratic politician told Blue Wave New Jersey.

"And bully luck to the feds coming successful to effort to get her," helium continued.

Attorney General Matt Platkin explained his position connected the directive successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin speaks during a quality league astatine his office, Dec. 12, 2023, successful Trenton. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini, File)

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"Our fig 1 precedence is keeping New Jerseyans safe. The Immigrant Trust Directive ensures that New Jersey constabulary officers walk their clip tackling pressing nationalist information issues similar convulsive crime, weapon violence, and cause trafficking, portion besides ensuring that victims of transgression and witnesses tin safely travel guardant to constabulary and study transgression careless of their migration status," helium stated. "Under the Immigrant Trust Directive, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement person and volition proceed to enactment with national authorities to region convulsive criminals from this country. Plain and simple, determination is nary 'sanctuary' for criminals successful New Jersey."

"The directive was drafted and is enforced with the enactment and practice of instrumentality enforcement leaders. The Office of the Attorney General, the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police, together, recently released guidance for instrumentality enforcement connected the Immigrant Trust Directive and its importance," the lawyer wide continued.

Murphy’s bureau and DHS did not remark successful clip for publication.