{"id":73152,"date":"2017-07-03T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73152"},"modified":"2017-07-02T12:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:07:31","slug":"stevie-wonder-could-have-seen-this-coming-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73152","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder Could Have Seen This Coming &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline says it all:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/06\/30\/crime-drops-in-phoenix-after-city-drops-sanctuary-city-status-former-cops-say.html\"><em>Crime drops in Phoenix after city drops<br \/>\nsanctuary city status, former cops say<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stands to reason, actually.\u00a0 While some illegal immigrants are doubtless in the US in search of employment and\/or because of bad conditions in their native lands, a significant number of them are criminals.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t take a huge fraction of criminals in an area to have a measurable impact on crime statistics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further, the criminals among those illegal immigrants have brought more than themselves here illegally.\u00a0 In many cases, they&#8217;ve also brought their criminal gang ties and practices along for the ride.\u00a0 Because of that, it doesn&#8217;t take a rocket scientist to figure out that giving &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; to illegal immigrants also means giving sanctuary to some number of illegal immigrant gangbangers &#8211; as well as giving them a potential base of operations in which they can commit their crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve got no problem with anyone who immigrates to the US lawfully.\u00a0 But I do have a problem with those who didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And I have an even bigger problem with public officials who look the other way at criminal activity.\u00a0 Officials condoning &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; for those breaking Federal law are doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline says it all: Crime drops in Phoenix after city drops sanctuary city status, former cops &hellip; <a title=\"Stevie Wonder Could Have Seen This Coming &#8211; Part II\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73152\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stevie Wonder Could Have Seen This Coming &#8211; Part II<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}