Prometheus 6

You know, when Newt Gingrich decided he'd ride Black folks' reaction to those murders into some kind of relevance, I knew some other useless individual would pick up the theme.

Beyond this declaration that Newark's grief and newfound determination is politically fungible, the NY Times' extension of the "sanctuary city" rhetoric into "sanctuary policy" is regrettable. 

Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy
By KAREEM FAHIM

NEWARK, Aug. 20 — Federal officials said on Monday that a second man among the suspects in the schoolyard slayings of three young friends was in the United States illegally, and a conservative presidential candidate flew into town to denounce the city’s leaders as complicit in the murders because they had declared Newark a “sanctuary” for immigrants.

“If the suspects are found guilty, Newark and its political leadership share a degree of responsibility,” Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado, said on the steps of the gold-domed City Hall, surrounded by a dozen supporters and slightly more protesters who rallied against him. “I encourage the family of the victims to pursue a lawsuit against the city.”

Mr. Tancredo, whose bid for the Republican nomination is based largely on an aggressive stance against illegal immigration, is among the many conservatives nationwide who seized on the killings after it was reported that one of the suspects, Jose Lachira Carranza, 28, was an illegal immigrant from Peru.