Leftist Governor Murphy Says He’s Hosting Immigrant, Taunts Feds: ‘Try To Get Her’

Leftist New Jersey Democrat Governor Phil Murphy brazenly boasted that he and his wife were housing an immigrant, then taunted the Trump administration by challenging them to “try to get her.”

Speaking at a public event with “Blue Wave New Jersey,” Murphy bragged that New Jersey was “the lead state in challenging birthright citizenship.” Later, he said defiantly, “There is someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to and we said, ‘You know what? Let’s have her live at our house above our garage’ and good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.”

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship. “The federal government will not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States. We are also going to enhance vetting and screening of illegal aliens,” a Trump official stated.

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin declared Trump’s order “an assault on the rule of law.”

In 2017, when he was running for governor, Murphy participated in a town hall hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. The moderator asked Murphy about “that horrible day when four college kids in Newark were shot in the schoolyard execution-style. One of the people convicted of that murder, Jose Carranza, was an undocumented immigrant from Peru. It turned out he had been arrested the year before for child rape and released on bail.”

The moderator pointed out that the attorney general at the time suggested that if someone was arrested for a felony or drunk driving the police were supposed to notify the federal government immigration authorities.

“In many sanctuary cities they won’t notify them until there is a conviction and drunk driving is or is not included,” the moderator noted. “I wonder what you think about the current state of the law?”

“I think, the context, for me, Tom, would be the field is so tilted against Dreamers, against newly-arrived immigrant brothers and sisters, my bias is gonna be havin’ their back, because there’s always gonna be an example in any population of somebody who does somethin’ awful. … We gotta be careful not to extrapolate that and then throw a similar blanket over an entire group of folks,” Murphy answered. “I feel like the field has been so tilted against these folks. I wanna be the guy they feel that they can rely on.”