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13 October
5:29 pm

Under Governor Hochul's sanctuary policies, a fourteen year old girl was raped recently in New York State by an illegal migrant.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:29 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific criminal incident attributed to an undocumented immigrant, with causal link drawn to sanctuary policies. Verifiable whether the incident occurred and whether the perpetrator was undocumented.
What we foundThere are documented cases of illegal migrants raping minors in New York under sanctuary-policy conditions, but the specific claim of a 14-year-old girl being raped does not match any confirmed case; the closest verified incidents involve a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl.
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