Consumer Law
A Federal Judge Throws Out a New Jersey Lawsuit Over an Immigration Directive Given to Law Enforcement
Ocean County, New Jersey, faced stiff arguments Thursday in its protest of a state directive that forbids officers at the municipal level from informing federal immigration officials when an inmate is an undocumented immigrant.
Avoiding more controversial aspects of the Trump-era dispute, both sides at Third Circuit oral arguments this morning focused mainly on the 10th Amendment and what the Constitution has to say about state sovereignty.
The lawsuit sprang up from a directive to law enforcement New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued in 2018, restricting what information could be shared with federal immigration officials to determine if an inmate was a documented or undocumented immigrant.
