The mayor of the New Jersey township where a baby boy was killed last week after an illegal immigrant allegedly struck the child's family with her car in a grocery store parking lot told Fox News Digital that the state's sanctuary policies should be rolled back to help prevent similar tragedies. "If our police pull somebody over and they're undocumented... they can't call the federal agencies, they can't call ICE. That needs to change," Jennifer Kuhn, the mayor of Jackson Township, said in an interview on Thursday.
"Condolences at this point are not enough. At this point, leadership needs to step in. And we have to do something." Authorities say Maria Cobon-Guzman, a Guatemalan national who did not have a driver's license, hit a mother pushing a stroller carrying her 9-month-old son and 5-year-old daughter in the parking lot of a kosher grocery store in Jackson on Aug. 28.
The infant died, while the mother and 5-year-old were critically injured. Kuhn argued the crash underscores the need to scrap New Jersey policies that, in most cases, limit cooperation between local, county and state law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. ILLEGAL ALIEN'S ‘INEXCUSABLE’ CRIME SPARKS INTERSTATE CLASH BETWEEN GOP SEN, DEM GOV: ‘YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED’ "These issues shouldn't happen whether you're illegal or legal.
But the problem is that we can't hold them accountable if they're not documented and they're illegal aliens," she added. Cobon-Guzman, 20, was charged with manslaughter. Prosecutors also charged Ariadna Lazaro-Flores, alleging she allowed Cobon-Guzman to drive her vehicle despite knowing she did not have a driver's license.
Lazaro-Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, according to an inmate report. Both women illegally entered the U.S. during the Biden administration, with Lazaro-Flores doing so five times in October 2023 and being removed each time, the Department of Homeland Security previously told Fox News Digital. Cobon-Guzman entered once in October 2023 but was released unvetted into the nation’s interior, DHS added.
On July 31, an immigration judge issued an order of removal against her. DEADLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCK CRASH EXPOSED FAILURES ON THE ROAD AND AT THE BORDER: KEY SENATOR At the center of Kuhn's criticism is New Jersey's Immigrant Trust Directive, a policy implemented under former Gov. Among other provisions, the directive generally prohibits police from asking about a person's immigration status, notifying U.S.
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