Sanctuary Policies
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) claims that “sanctuary policies keep our communities safer” because they make immigrants “more likely to participate as witnesses” or “victims of crime in going after the perpetrators.”
IN FACT, about 57% of serious crimes committed against non-citizens are reported to police, while the comparable rate for people born in the USA is 53%. Furthermore, sanctuary policies have released perpetrators who then committed murders and many other violent crimes, such as these:
- Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce, Joel Ernesto Escobar, and two other MS-13 gang members murdered Ariana Funes-Diaz, a 14-year-old Maryland girl, with a machete and a baseball bat after Ponce and Escobar were arrested and released by Prince George’s County, MD for “attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, participation in gang activity, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted robbery, and other related charges.”
- Edwin Ramos, who had been convicted of assault and attempted robbery, murdered Tony Bologna and two of his sons, Michael and Matthew, after the city of San Francisco released Ramos from jail.
- Nery Estrada Margos beat Veronica Cabrera Ramirez to death two weeks after Sonoma County, California Sheriff Rob Giordano released him following an arrest for beating the same woman.
- Kendel Anthony Felix, who was previously arrested and released on six occasions, kidnapped and murdered New York real estate developer Menachem Stark.
