By Claude Brodesser-Akner | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on December 11, 2015 at 10:05 AM, updated December 11, 2015 at 10:36 AM

TRENTON — The unauthorized Dominican immigrant who ran over a Toms River police officer with his car has drawn the ire of the Christie administration.

Giomar Diaz, 33, a Dominican Republic native who entered the United States illegally, was on Tuesday charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.

Toms River police Officer Daniel Brennan suffered non-life threatening injuries on Monday after he was struck by Diaz's black Honda, according to a Toms River police spokesman. Diaz was fleeing police by driving his car in reverse with the driver side door open after having tried to obtain state-issued documents from a Motor Vehicle Commission office using fraudulent identification.

"Right now this remains a law enforcement matter," Christie's spokesman Kevin Roberts said. "But if reports and what is alleged in his charges are true, this crime never should have happened to begin with and is more evidence of the federal government's failure to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system."

"...this crime...is more evidence of the federal government's failure to secure the border."

Diaz had previously been deported back to the Dominican Republic for weapons and narcotics offenses.

In August, Christie joined GOP front runner Donald Trump in calling for the passage of Kate's Law, which calls for the creation of a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for undocumented immigrants who reenter the country after they were previously convicted of an aggravated felony or of illegally reentering the country twice. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, a San Francisco artist shot and killed by a Mexican national and convicted felon who was in the United States illegally.

The Kate's Law bill has cleared the U.S. House but has not advanced in the Senate. President Obama has threatened to veto it, fearing it will cause a swell in the federal prison population.

Diaz is being held on a no-bail detainer from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) division.

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