Corey Stewart

D.C. NPR Station Hounds Virginia Pol About Using Illegal Minors As a 'Wedge Issue to Fearmonger'
By Tim Graham | July 17, 2014 | 9:03 AM EDT

Across from my residential development in northern Virginia is a Joe Gibbs Youth for Tomorrow center for troubled youth. As the Daily Signal has reported, we learned that the federal government is now placing unaccompanied illegal minors at this facility near our neighborhood.

Republican Corey Stewart, the chairman of Prince William County’s Board of Supervisors, has been demonized in the press for trying to check the immigration status of people arrested in the county. In reporting this development on Wednesday, the local NPR station WAMU hounded Stewart about using immigration as a “wedge issue to fearmonger”:

FNC Highlights UVA Study That Shows Enforcing Immigration Laws Decreases Violent Crime
By Brad Wilmouth | November 22, 2010 | 12:50 AM EST

 On Thursday’s Fox and Friends, FNC hosts Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy gave attention to a University of Virginia study which found that, since Prince William County in Virginia became more strict in dealing with illegal immigrants in 2007, the jurisdiction has enjoyed a substantial drop in crime - including a 32 percent drop in violent crime - while neighboring Fairfax County has seen crime levels remain steady.

Introducing an interview with Prince William County board of supervisors chairman Corey Stewart, co-host Doocy began: "Back in 2007, Prince William County in Virginia became the first large jurisdiction in the country to adopt a strict immigration enforcement policy. That move was widely criticized."