Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy

By KAREEM FAHIM

Published: August 21, 2007

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 “sanctuaryâ€