Sanctuary cities have become the new hideouts for a handful of immigrants committing crimes and making all immigrants look bad, Alfred Regnery, chairman of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, said on a radio talk show recently.
anctuary cities have become the new hideouts for a handful of immigrants committing crimes and making all immigrants look bad, Alfred Regnery, chairman of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, said on a radio talk show recently.
In a conversation with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson, the hosts of “Chicago’s Morning Answer,” Regnery argued that sanctuary cities pose a danger to the entire country.
Proft is a principal of Local Government Information Services, which owns this publication.
Although Regnery said he agrees that, as The New York Times pointed out, immigrants commit less crimes than people born in America, he also argued that there are thousands of cases of victimization committed by people who shouldn’t be in the United States.
“Most immigrants are law-abiding citizens — 5 or 6 percent of the population commits 85 to 90 percent of the crime,” he said.
As an example, Regnery pointed to Chicago, a sanctuary city.
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