City of Sanctuary

Last week, Rebecca Griego, a researcher at the University of Washington was murdered by her ex-boyfriend Jonathan Rowan. That's bad enough, but a murder by its own doesn't really rank a mention on the PolitBlog. Probing deeper reveals the meat of the story.

Jonathan Rowan (who killed himself after murdering Griego) was an illegal criminal alien living in the United States. Last year, he was stopped for drunk driving on June 30, 2006. His 90-day visa had long ago expired. During the course of the police inquiry, a simple question would have found out that Rowan was here illegally. In fact, the city of Seattle has been deemed a "sanctuary city" for illegal criminal aliens. Police officers are actually prohibited from asking people for proof of citizenship or residence. Illegal criminal aliens are allowed to freely roam the city, and there is Not One Thing that the police force can do about it.

That's an incredibly stupid law just on its face, but it becomes all the more deplorable when you consider Initiative 30 which was passed back in 1986. Initiative 30 repealed the City of Refuge law passed in January of that year. This is another case of the administrators of the city of Seattle doing whatever they want, giving the middle-finger to their citizens.

A simple residency check would have allowed deportation proceedings to begin, and one more person would not be dead. The blood of Rebecca Griego is on the hands of the City of Seattle administrators, who would rather coddle illegal aliens, living here as criminals, rather than upholding the law, and the will of the people.

Remember that when the next elections come. The City of Seattle administrators are murderers.