Thursday tried to walk back comments that he was housing an immigrant who might be in the United States illegally and daring federal officials to remove her. “I didn’t suggest that, with all due respect,

Gov. Phil Murphy has a response after a comment he made about an immigrant possibly living above his garage caused a stir amongst conservatives.

Phil Murphy’s suggestion that he might harbor an immigrant at his home and daring the federal government to come get her handed an easy talking point to the Democrat’s foes looking to replace him and generated two days of headlines as the Trump administration tries to start mass deportations.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy revealed during an interview Saturday with "Blue Wave New Jersey," a progressive grassroots organization, that he is housing an immigrant with questionable legal status at his home and basically dared the Trump administration to "come in to try to get her.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is facing controversy after suggesting he was housing an immigrant, whose immigration status was unclear. "I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there’s someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point they are trying to get it to,

Phil Murphy suggested that he had provided shelter to a female illegal immigrant in his home, and even taunted the Trump administration “to try to get her.”