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Sherrill anti-ICE policy hammered after fleeing migrant driver injures Dem mayor’s wife

Sherrill anti-ICE policy hammered after fleeing migrant driver injures Dem mayor’s wife

EXCLUSIVE: Sanctuary policies are leading to dangerous situations by making it harder for ICE to do its job, Republican critics argued after an illegal immigrant fled agents and crashed on a major New Jersey highway, injuring the wife of a Democratic mayor. The Wednesday crash is fueling a renewed fight over New Jersey’s limits on cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. Republicans are arguing Sherrill’s approval of the “Trust Directive” creates public-safety risks by limiting the ability of ICE to work with police officers. They also contend that Democrats are wrongheaded to respond to such incidents by calling for ICE’s abolition rather than stronger enforcement. “This is just the latest in a long line of traffic incidents and vehicular incidents that wouldn’t occur if New Jersey didn’t have our sanctuary status that got codified as soon as Gov. Sherrill came into office,” Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Point Pleasant Beach, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview Friday. DHS BOSS REVEALS OVAL OFFICE PLAN TO ‘WITHHOLD FUNDING’ FROM SANCTUARY CITIES AFTER AGGRESSIVE NEW YORK BUST “We all fought against it. We told them that this would create chaos, and it seems like Democrats are unable to take accountability for their own actions.” Kanitra said Sherrill and other Democrats have been unable to recognize the connection between their support for the “Trust Directive” sanctuary policy — signed into law by the governor this year — and incidents such as the one in Middlesex County this week. NJ TAXPAYERS ON THE HOOK FOR $12M MORE AS DEM GOVERNOR PROTECTS ILLEGAL ALIENS BATTLING DEPORTATION “Democrats seemingly have an inability to take accountability for their own actions here. They’re unable to even recognize the chaos that they’re creating, and they’re shouting and screaming at everybody else trying to find somebody to blame. It’s somewhat ridiculous,” Kanitra said. “You kind of reap what you sow,” he said, adding that at least two people in his district have been killed in incidents connected to illegal immigrants behind the wheel. DAD OF GIRL LEFT PERMANENTLY DISABLED IN CRASH WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RIPS DEMS: ‘I REJECT YOUR SYMPATHY’ Kanitra also pointed to a separate case in his county in which an illegal immigrant allegedly drove a vehicle into a family outside a kosher supermarket, killing an infant. “They got behind the wheel, and they wound up killing an innocent toddler in the process,” he said, calling the circumstances of the situation “absolutely abhorrent.” MAN FLEEING ICE OFFICERS IN FLORIDA IS STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRACTOR-TRAILER, POLICE SAY Wednesday’s crash saw an illegal immigrant flee a targeted ICE operation, the agency told Fox News Digital, and speed off. The suspect drove onto U.S. 130 — the heavily trafficked spine of the Trenton-Camden corridor — and collided with a Tesla in North Brunswick after running a stoplight. FLEEING SUSPECT IN NEW JERSEY STRIKES ICE AGENT, WHO OPENS FIRE One of the people injured in the other vehicle was the wife of East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen. Fox News Digital reached out to Cohen and North Brunswick Mayor Francis Womack III for comment. “After repeated verbal warnings and due to officer safety concerns, ICE officers relied on their training and attempted to safely remove the illegal alien [from their car]. The illegal alien then proceeded to flee at a high rate of speed and collided with other vehicles,” an ICE spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital. HOCHUL BOASTS ‘I JUST BANNED IT’ AS NEW YORK OUTLAWS LOCAL POLICE PARTNERSHIPS WITH ICE Sen. Mike Testa, R-Vineland, said Cape May County, one of the counties in his district, along with Monmouth County, fought hard but unsuccessfully against Sherrill and others to be able to engage with ICE through 287(g) interagency cooperation agreements. The incident Wednesday showed why they are integral to keeping the public safe, he said. “I think it has only emboldened illegal aliens to engage in illegal behavior. This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.” He said there has been little movement among Democratic leadership to address the troubling trend, but at least one member of the majority — Sen. Brian Stack, who is also the mayor of Union City — told him that, in an all-encompassing sense, laws on the books must be enforced. Watson Coleman, whose district includes the area where the crash occurred, responded differently. “Today, it appears an ICE involved car chase resulted in an accident involving the wife of the Mayor of East Brunswick. Abolish ICE,” Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., tweeted. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Testa said that while Democrats’ “silence is deafening” writ-large, Watson Coleman’s call to abolish ICE shows that some Democrats are responding to the incident by targeting federal immigration enforcement rather than the driver. “This is just another example of lawlessness. And sadly, there’s been a stamp of approval from radical leftists like Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman saying ICE should be abolished rather than actually punishing the criminal that put multiple citizens’ lives at risk,” he said. Fox News Digital reached out to Watson Coleman and Sherrill for comment. As for his county’s wish to forge a 287(g) agreement with ICE one day, he said it shows there are parts of the state that still believe in law and order. “And we believe quite literally that citizenship should have its privileges. I’ve made this comment many times,” he said. Testa accused Watson Coleman and Sherrill of supporting policies that make it harder for federal authorities to arrest and remove illegal immigrants. “You know, I’m a child of the ’80s — and the old American Express commercial was ‘membership has its privileges’ — well, citizenship should have its privileges,” he said.

Sen Jim Justice finds way through Senate polarization to bring WWII hero memorial to DC

Sen Jim Justice finds way through Senate polarization to bring WWII hero memorial to DC

Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., found a way to get something passed unanimously, despite what he rebukes as “romper-room behavior” of political polarization in the Senate. In an interview Saturday with Fox News Digital, Justice detailed how he worked around the Senate’s bitter partisan divide to get a monument honoring late World War II Medal of Honor hero Hershel “Woody” Williams onto the National Mall. “I’ve never seen anything like this, never in my life seen anything to where it is, it is so preposterous,” Justice lamented. “You know, no one could make any sense out of what in the world is going on a lot of times.” “I don’t know why we don’t talk to one another,” he added. “I don’t know why we’re disrespectful to one other.” DEMOCRATS BLINK AS SCHUMER HELPS GOP CLEAR KEY SHUTDOWN HURDLE Using good, old-fashioned dialogue, Justice’s effort ultimately succeeded in getting his first Senate law passed for his late friend. The Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act directs the National Medal of Honor monument to a prominent location within the Reserve on the National Mall. The legislation is Justice’s first bill as a senator. It honors Williams, a West Virginia native who received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima and who was the last surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient before his death in 2022 at age 98. The monument will honor Williams by name while commemorating Medal of Honor recipients as a whole. The House approved the measure on Aug. 31 after the Senate passed it unanimously in March. The legislation is now awaiting Trump’s signature. “We’re really hopeful he’s going to sign it this coming week,” Justice said. “There’s been a lot to make all that happen and everything, and I can’t be more proud.” Justice, describing the partisan fight in the interview, said the path to unanimous approval was anything but smooth. EXCLUSIVE: NEW AMERICA 250 MONUMENT LETS FAMILIES FIND MILITARY RELATIVES IN SECONDS: ‘I HAD TEARS IN MY EYES’ “I mean, we had it shot down,” he said, adding, but “I just wouldn’t turn it loose.” “And the reason I wouldn’t turn loose is because it was just real simple: I mean Woody’s unbelievable, or was unbelievable, that’s for sure. But all these Medal of Honor recipients and everything, the ones we’ve lost and all those that are still living, they are so deserving.” Justice described how the measure initially had become caught up in the same divisiveness that has locked up the Senate on a much broader range of issues. “All we managed to do is keep a food fight going to where – because it was a Republican thing or Republican Jim Justice introducing – well, I’m telling you, if I’m a Democrat, by God, we’re not gonna let that happen and everything,” he lamented. “And then it’s just, it’s the same thing on both sides. Way, way, way too much for a guy that’s got white hair and wants to try to get things done.” EXCAVATION SET TO BEGIN ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S 250-FOOT TRIUMPHAL ARCH AMID LEGAL BATTLE Justice said the breakthrough came just before he was preparing to take the matter to the Senate floor with four Medal of Honor recipients present. “I was about three feet from going into the Senate chambers,” Justice recalled. “And we sat down right there, you know, kind of on the steps and really just started talking.” The senator was Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. The two serve together on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Justice said he had developed a personal relationship with Heinrich over the years, including through Justice’s well-known bulldog, Babydog. SEN RICK SCOTT: AMERICANS WORK FIVE DAYS A WEEK, WHY CAN’T THE SENATE? “I said, Martin, I don’t understand. I mean, how in the world can we do this?” Justice said. “And I said, Martin, you know, I’m getting ready to go on the floor, and it’s not going to be good. It’s not gonna be good for you. It’s not going to good for a lot of folks and everything. A lot of people are going to be upset. A lot of people are going to be really sad.” Justice said he appealed directly to Heinrich to find a way forward. “And I just said, Martin, I don’t know any way to tell it other than just to tell you the truth. And you’re a good guy. And I don’t know why in the world we just can’t talk with one another.” Heinrich responded with a blunt explanation of the broader problem, Justice said. MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT JAMES CAPERS JR. SAYS RECOGNITION IS BITTERSWEET AFTER LOSING ‘SO MUCH’ “And he looked right at me, and he said, you know, people here don’t talk to one another,” Justice said. “And I really appreciate you doing that, and I’m not going to object.” Justice said the measure then moved “in three minutes, boom, boom, boom, done.” “It was an amazing moment really, and like I said, Martin’s a good guy, and I just think that maybe we could all learn from that just a little bit,” he said. “Now we’re going to honor, you know, another great, unbelievable, courageous group of people, and it’s way, way, way overdue.” HOUSE REPUBLICANS DID WHAT VOTERS ASKED AND WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS. IT’S UP TO THE SENATE On other issues in the Senate still in gridlock, Justice urged dialogue like that above and for everyone to “grow up.” “Why in the world would you carry on with just childishness, and in all fairness, that’s what it is,” Justice said. “You can’t make sense of it. There’s no point in us trying to do that. This is Romper Room behavior. And if there’s anything in the world I could do, I wish to goodness that I could tell everybody, you know let’s grow up a lot. Let’s absolutely grow up and let’s behave.” Justice said

Israel’s ambassador says NYC’s Mamdani is ‘sowing chaos’ ahead of Netanyahu’s UN appearance

Israel’s ambassador says NYC’s Mamdani is ‘sowing chaos’ ahead of Netanyahu’s UN appearance

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told Fox News Digital that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is “sowing chaos” ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly later this month. Danon made the remark after Mamdani called on New Yorkers in July to protest when Netanyahu arrives to speak at the general debate at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 24. “No one can ignore Mayor Mamdani, you know, instead of actually welcoming all world leaders and making sure that the city will function properly, he is doing exactly the opposite,” Danon said. “He is inciting, he is sowing chaos into the city. So this year, unfortunately, it will be harder for every New Yorker or every visitor because the mayor is actually calling for people to go out, to demonstrate and it will not deter us. The prime minister will come, will speak and will represent our nation,” the ambassador added. ISRAELI PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU VOWS TO VISIT NEW YORK DESPITE MAMDANI’S REPEATED CALLS FOR HIS ARREST “He is inciting, he is sowing chaos into the city. So this year, unfortunately, it will be harder for every New Yorker or every visitor because the mayor is actually calling for people to go out, to demonstrate and it will not deter us. The prime minister will come, will speak and will represent our nation,” the ambassador added. Mamdani’s office, when asked by Fox News Digital if he had any plans to meet with Netanyahu while he is in town, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “I don’t think the prime minister wants to meet with him,” Danon said. Mamdani previously called Netanyahu a “war criminal” and “architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.” The Democratic socialist also acknowledged that he can’t have Netanyahu arrested despite promising to do so during his mayoral campaign. When asked by a reporter in July about “What do you think that these people who are frustrated with Netanyahu should do when he arrives in New York City for the United Nations meeting,” Mamdani said, “One of the bedrocks of our city is protest.” “It is something that has been a part of what makes our city so special, that New Yorkers can express themselves whether they are in support or in opposition no matter on whatever topic,” the Democratic socialist mayor said during the press conference on July 22. “And I’ve always said that when we respect our Constitution, we also respect our First Amendment. And here in New York City it will always be a place where you can exercise that.” IRAN TRIED TO ASSASSINATE ONE OF NETANYAHU’S SONS, PRIME MINISTER SAYS Netanyahu told Fox News “Hannity” around a week later that, “I’m going to New York,” and, “I’m going to speak the truth in front of this hate-spewing elected official who’s pitting one group of New Yorkers against the others.” Danon told Fox News Digital that “we have been involved in a war, a difficult one, a long one, and I think now we have a lot of opportunities ahead of us.” “So the prime minister would also speak about what we achieved, but also about the opportunities,” he said. Danon also said Israel has to “finish the job” in Gaza. “Hamas is still there. They are supposed to disarm, according to the president’s plan. I hope it will take place. I hope that it will happen sooner than later because if it will not happen, we will have to do the job ourselves. But we cannot leave a terrorist organization in Gaza. There will be no future for the people of Gaza or for us if Hamas will stay in power,” he continued. “I think we can be very proud of our achievements. Israel is being criticized, but we walk very proud at the U.N. because we know that what we did, fighting evil, fighting Iran, fighting Hezbollah, fighting Hamas, it wasn’t only our fight. We fought for the Western societies, for the Western democracies,” Danon also said. “That’s why we feel proud on what we achieved this year.” Fox News Digital’s Nora Moriarty and Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.