NJ DEM Gubernatoria candidates pledge to prevent ice from illegal aliens gel

New Jersey Democratic Gubernatoria candidates pledged to help illegal immigrants Avoid the ice raids of President Donald Trump during the first primary debate in the state of the garden of the year.

Five out of six candidates raised their hands when Joey Fox, a political reporter and debates moderator from New Jersey Globe, asked Democrats on stage if they “believe that one of the next Governor’s goals should protect immigrants in New Jersey, even those who are illegally here. “

Representative Mikie Sherrill did not lift his hand, but responded: “We should protect people in New Jersey, especially with the Constitution.”

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The question caused less debate and more than one united front, as the candidates pledged to plant with Trump, pledged to the comprehensive immigration reform and pledged to prioritize humanity in the process. deportation.

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However, candidates found more agitated land when Riley’s law is discussed, the first bill Trump Signed by law during the second term that arrest illegal immigrants who are accused of committing dangerous crimes.

“If you are a murderer, a criminal, a rapist, if you are entering the people’s houses in the middle of the night with a gun while the kids sleep and you are without documentation, you should not be here. You should not be In the state, you should not be in this country. ”

Despite Gottheimer’s support for the law, he was careful to distinguish “innocent people without documentation” from those who commit violent crimes. “When I am a governor, I will use the whole state of the state to prevent” Trump rounding “people without innocent documentation” in restaurants, churches and schools, the congressman clarified.

Trump’s administration does not recognize this distinction. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt He told journalists last Tuesday that anyone in the United States is considered illegal.

“They illegally broke the laws of our nation and, therefore, are criminals, with regard to this administration,” Leavitt said at a viral moment. “I know the last administration did not see it, so it is a great change of culture to our nation to see someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But this is exactly what they are.”

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop did not share Gottheimer’s support for Laken Riley, calling the “dangerous”.

“Laken Riley law served to undermine the authority of the Attorney General here in New Jersey,” said Fulop. “It is very dangerous legislation in relation to the autonomy of the governor and the Attorney General, and it should not have been supported.”

The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, a vocal opponent of the Ice Raids authorized in his city during the first week of Trump in office, made opposition to the bill a step further.

“You can’t say that you support immigrants to New Jersey, but vote for Laken Riley Act,” Baraka said. “We need to stop having this conversation about people who are murderers, murderers and rapists and criminals. We know it’s a lie. There is no wave of immigrant crime in New Jersey.”

Baraka came to say that Trump’s political agenda is rooted in “white supremacy and racism”.

“It is interesting that we continue to say that people are illegally here when we continue to move the spotlight,” Baraka said. “If we withdraw all the ways that people become documented citizens of the United States and then say they are illegal, it is a problem. We cannot risk the fourth and 14th amendment to promote this political agenda in which Donald Trump has Really based white supremacy and racism. “

“It’s wrong to sit here and have a debate about the crime created by immigrants we know is not true. Crime is ensuring that people have no access to American dream because of what they look like, from the country where they came to Departure, the language they speak and the postal code they live.

Former New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney said that New Jersey should plant in front of Trump’s deportations, emphasizing the lack of legal search mandates in these ice raids. However, Sweeney agreed that someone with a criminal record enters the United States or “someone who violates the law in this country should not be in this country,” calling “privilege”.

“With Donald Trump, we should all plant us and oppose what Donald Trump does. He is breaching the law. He does so illegally. He does so without legal search guarantees. It is horrible what he does.” Said Sweeney.

“I support what President Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden did. Both presidents become Democrats who deported more people than Donald Trump Mai, but they did with humanity and compassion and did so in the right way. . Sweeney added.

New Jersey The president of the Education Association, Sean Spiller, echoed Sweeney’s upset for Trump’s inhuman deportations, saying -the new sweaters that should be afraid.

“They come for all of us, and this should scare us all of us. This is unacceptable. This is what we defend and fight against,” said Spiller.

Despite taking a tough line against President Trump, Democratic candidates recognized immigration reform as a need.

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“I think what is missing in the conversation so many times is the basic humanity,” said Sherrill. “We desperately need a comprehensive reform of immigration. We need to assure us what is on our border.”