The New Jersey Democratic Candidates pledged to help illegal immigrants avoid President Donald Trump’s raids in the ice during the first basic debate in the garden state.
Five out of six candidates raised their hands when Joy Fox, the New Jersey Globe political correspondent and the supervisor .
MP Micky Sherrill did not raise her hand, instead, “We must protect people in New Jersey, especially with the constitution.”
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Ice agents arrested seven illegal immigrants during the workforce operation. (The United States for Migration and Customs) Customs enforcement)
The question raised less than the discussion and more than one unified front, as the candidates pledged to stand in the face of Trump, commit to reforming comprehensive immigration, and pledged to give a priority to humanity in the deportation process.
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President Donald Trump signs Riley’s Law at the White House, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vocci)
However, the candidates found a more fragile land when discussing the Laken Riley Law, the first draft law was signed by Trump in his law during his second term, which is holding illegal immigrants who are accused of committing serious crimes.
“If you are a killer, a criminal, a rapist, if you storm people’s homes in the middle of the night with a pistol during children’s sleep, and you are not documented, you should not be here. You should not be in the state, you should not be in this country.” Representative Josh Goetir, who voted to support the Laken Law in the US House of Representatives, said.
Although Gottheimer supported this act, he was keen to distinguish “innocent people who are not documented” from those who commit violent crimes. “When I am a ruler, I will use the full power of the state to prevent” Trump from “the” innocent, not documented “in restaurants, churches and schools, as a member of Congress explained.

Representative Josh Jotimir speaks after the democratic ruling discussion at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on February 2, 2025. (AP/Mike Catalini)
The Trump administration does not recognize this distinction. White House press secretary Caroline Levit told reporters last Tuesday that anyone in the United States is considered an illegal criminal.
“They illegally broke the laws of our nation, and therefore, they are criminals, as much as this administration goes,” Levitte said at a viral moment now. “I know that the last administration did not see it in this way, so it is a major cultural transformation in our nation to look at someone who breaks the laws of immigration as a criminal. But this is exactly what they are.”
The mayor of the city of Jersey Steve Volpoub did not participate in the support of Gottheimer for the Laken Riley Law, describing it as “dangerous”.
“The Laken Law has undermined the authority of the Public Prosecutor here in New Jersey,” said Volop. “It is a very dangerous legislation in terms of its connection with the autonomy of the ruler and the general lawyer here, and it should not be supported.”

The Mayor of Newark, Ras Barka, speaks after the democratic debate in Lorensville, New Jersey, on February 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
The Newark Mayor of Parka, an audio deduction of the authorized ice raids in his city during the first week of Trump, took the opposition of the bill forward.
“You cannot say that you are supporting immigrants in New Jersey, but voting for Laken Riley’s law,” Parka said. “We need to stop taking this conversation about the fact that the murderers, murderers, rapists and criminals are. We know this is a lie. There is no crime wave of immigrants in New Jersey.”
Parka went to the extent that Trump’s political agenda was rooted in “white superiority and racism”.
“It is interesting to continue to say that people are here illegally when we continue to move the goal,” Parka said. “If we take all the paths that people become documented in the United States, then they say they are illegal, this is a problem. White superiority and racism.”
“It is a mistake to sit here and discuss the crime created by immigrants who we know is incorrect. Crime is to verify the language they speak, and the postal symbol in which they live. We know that this is what happens, and we have to stop it now,” Parka continued.

Federal Borders and Investigative Borders Borders and Investigations Office enforces migration in El Baso, Texas on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (FBI)
Steve Sweini, former Senate Speaker of New Jersey, said that New Jersey should stand in front of Trump’s deportation, focusing on the lack of legal inspection orders in these ice raids. However, Sweeini agreed that a person with a criminal record enters the United States or “a person who breaks the law in this country should not be in this country,” called “concession.”
“With Donald Trump, we must all stand and oppose what Donald Trump is doing. He breaks the law. He does it illegally. He does this without legal inspection orders. It is a horrific thing what he does.” Sweeini said.
“I support what President Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden did. Both presidents coincide with being democrats who deported more people from Donald Trump at all, but they did this with humanity and mercy and did this in the right way.” I would like to collect people who did not commit anything. Wrong, but the people who broke the law in this country, I am sorry because they need to leave it … they break the laws, and we must hold them accountable, “” Sweeni added.

Former Senate Speaker Steve Sweeini speaks after a democratic debate on February 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini)
Shawn Spiller, head of the New Jersey Education Association Sean Spiller, echoed Sweeney to deport Trump’s inhuman deportation, and told New Jersey to be afraid.
“They come to all of us, and this must frighten each of us. This is unacceptable. This is what we stand and resist.”
Despite taking a difficult line against President Trump, Democratic candidates admitted to reforming immigration as a necessity.
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“I think what is missing in the conversation several times is the basic humanity,” Sherrill said. “We strongly need a comprehensive reform of immigration. We need to make sure that people have a way to the citizen Through our borders. “
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