Sanctuary Policies -- Increased Crime

Sanctuary County:

Overall crime in Fairfax County increased by nearly 22 percent for the first quarter 2008 compared to first quarter figures from last year.
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Overall, property crimes, including burglary, larceny and car theft increased 24 percent, echoing “what appears to be happening in other localities in the region,” police said.

County Without Sanctuary:

Recently, Prince William County reported a 19.3 percent decline in crime, with chairman of the Board of County Supervisors Corey Stewart attributing the downturn to the hard line the county has taken toward illegal immigrants.

Right next door to each other.
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Michelle Malkin -- Sanctuary v. enforcement in neighboring counties: a natural experiment.

Smugglers Use Dolly As Cover

Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three attempts to move drugs or people through Texas, border officials said. In one bust, agents found 9,600 pounds of marijuana buried under a truckload of cotton seed, a spokesman said.

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CNN

Sanctuary City Insanity -- San Francisco Is Directly Responsibility

The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned.

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Michelle Malkin -- Gang-linked San Fran sanctuary case charged with murder of a father and two sons

Texas will go ahead with the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite Wednesday’s United Nations world court order for a stay, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry said.

The U.N.’s International Court of Justice’s call for stays in the cases of Medellin and four other Mexican nationals awaiting execution in Texas came in response to a petition filed last month by the Mexican government.

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Perry’s office dismissed the argument.

“The world court has no standing in Texas and Texas is not bound by a ruling or edict from a foreign court,” Perry spokesman Robert Black said. “It is easy to get caught up in discussions of international law and justice and treaties. It’s very important to remember that these individuals are on death row for killing our citizens.”
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Houston Chronicle

"We Can't Deport Them All" -- We Don't Have To, Just Enforce The Laws!

More immigrants choose to leave U.S., go home

Tired of making little money, feeling lonely and fearing arrest, more Latin American immigrants are voluntarily returning home.

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Miami Herald