Mikie Sherrill – probably the frontrunner of a bunched-up Democrat gubernatorial primary field – raised some eyebrows this week when she came out against adopting the Democrat legislature’s Immigrant Trust Act legislation, a bill designed to codify Governor Murphy’s Sanctuary State “Immigrant Trust Directive” policies which, until now, are the product of executive action.
Sherrill isn’t opposed to Sanctuary Statehood. To the contrary, Save Jerseyans, the NJ-11 Congresswoman argued that the controversial pro-Sanctuary State bill was being pushed for “political reasons” and could ultimately do more harm than good which she defines as subjecting the hypothetical new law to a fatal constitutional test in the courts.
“Opening this back up, at this time, is quite dangerous,” said Sherrill, musing that a challenge to the Act could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and “actually imperil the rights of people in other states.”
S3672/A4987 is presently stalled in the Democrat-dominated legislature for an additional, unambiguously political reason which Democrats are reluctant to say out loud: the entire Assembly is on the ballot in November, and a brand new CBS poll found 56% of Americans in favor of President Trump’s immigration policies while only 44% oppose them.
Sherrill is the slight favorite to win June’s Democrat nominating contest. The most recent poll (from Rutgers Eagleton) placed her in first position but below 20% and only 5-points ahead of her closest rival, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop.
You can watch Sherrill’s comments (served up at a recent “Blue Wave” forum) below:
