In the past few years, as the nation has slowly and ineffectually come to grips with the illegal immigration problem, several left-of-center cities have, with a flurry of misplace self-righteousness, enacted “sanctuary city” laws, instructing their police not to check the immigration status of people they contacted on other police matters.\u00a0 “We don’t pay our police to be immigration officers” was a common quote from the various officials involved – introducing the question “do we pay you to be child support enforcers or collections officers for the car\u00a0insurance industry?”, or, more on-point, “aren’t laws laws, to be enforced pretty much across the board?”<\/p>\n
At any rate, I’m sure you’ve heard the news – the three college students executed in Newark were allegedly shot by a man who’d been picked up on another crime – but not held, since Newark was one of the self-righteous cities that was above all of that persecution:<\/p>\n
Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru, was indicted twice this year: 31 counts surrounding the alleged sexual assault of a child, and nine stemming from a bar fight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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