The attorney general for the state of New Jersey has ordered local police to report all illegal alien suspects in serious charges (indictable offenses, drunk driving) to the federal authorities.

    After a review driven by three brutal slayings, the state attorney general on Wednesday ordered New Jersey law enforcers to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is found to be an illegal immigrant…

While saying she did not want to “Monday morning quarterback” the Newark case, [attorney general Anne] Milgram said that if the policy had been in place when Jose Carranza was indicted on the prior charges, federal officials might have placed an immigration hold on him, meaning he would have remained in custody or bail might have been set higher because of his immigration status…

The killings highlighted the need “to have a uniform state policy on notification to immigration,” Milgram said. Before the directive, “all police departments in our state had complete discretion as to if, when and how to notify immigration authorities.”

The policy applies immediately to all state and local law enforcement and to prosecutors. It also specifies that police notify prosecutors and courts when illegal immigrants are arrested…

The directive, however, prohibits officers from checking the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses or people seeking police assistance.

Too bad it took the execution-style murder of 3 innocent young people, with a lot of potential, to bring about this change in policy. Other states need to follow suit.

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