Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced a probe into the state’s Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week after he ordered state police not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

“[US Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear, and so has our president, that we are to take all criminals, violent criminals and criminals, out of this country and to completely enforce federal law,” Habba told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on his primetime show Thursday.

Habba said the investigation will look at Murphy as well as New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin over alleged instructions to state police not to cooperate with any federal agencies on immigration enforcement.

Trump campaigned on putting an end to unvetted illegal immigration and deporting known criminals, highlighting cases like Riley’s, Rachel Morin’s and Jocelyn Nungaray’s. 

Jose Ibarra appears at his trial at the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

The suspect in Morin’s rape and murder, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, is currently on trial in Maryland. At the time of her death, he was suspected of another woman’s murder in El Salvador. Before his arrest, he was also accused of raping a California woman and her nine-year-old daughter. 

“Anybody who does . . . get in the way of what we are doing — which is not political, it is simply against crime — will be charged in the state of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment,” Habba told Hannity.