10/21/2015
The big sanctuary action on Tuesday was in the Senate, where criminal-coddling Democrats blocked the bill that would have punished communities that shield illegal alien criminals.Meanwhile on the same day in the crime-friendly city by the bay, the odious San Francisco Board of Supervisor debated non-binding resolutions to try to pretty up the lawlessness decreed for illegal aliens by the leftist political class.
It was San Francisco’s sanctuary policy that allowed a five-times-deported Mexican illegal to murder Kate Steinle (shown above) as she walked with her father on a city pier.
The extra weaselly Supervisor David Campos seen in the video below is a one-time illegal alien himself, so he is a passionate advocate for diverse lawbreakers.
Notice how San Francisco’s political elite is actually proud of protecting criminal aliens who murder innocents like Steinle — and also Tony Bologna and his two sons who were killed in another crime committed by an undeported illegal alien.
San Francisco board reaffirms status as immigrant sanctuary, Associated Press, October 20, 2015SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco supervisors vigorously reaffirmed the city’s status as a sanctuary city on Tuesday, nearly four months after a woman was killed by a Mexican national who had been released from jail despite federal requests to detain him for deportation proceedings.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution urging the sheriff not to participate in a detainer-notification system that asks jails to let Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials know when an inmate of interest is being released.
The action sent a strong but symbolic message to critics who had lambasted San Francisco after the July 1 waterfront shooting of 32-year-old Kate Steinle.
Earlier in the day, Senate Republicans in Congress tried but failed to push through legislation punishing sanctuary cities.
The death of Steinle cast an uncomfortable spotlight on the city that proudly declares itself a refuge for immigrants. As outrage mounted nationally, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, criticized San Francisco’s sheriff, saying that suspect Juan Francisco Sanchez-Lopez should have been detained.
Sanchez-Lopez says he found the gun under a bench on the pier, and it accidently fired when he picked it up.
“All of us in this room agree that the death of Kathryn Steinle was senseless and tragic, but what many of us disagree on is the role — if any — that San Francisco’s existing sanctuary and due-process-for-all” ordinances played in the event, Supervisor Malia Cohen said to cheers from the crowd that gathered for the meeting.
Supervisors said they wouldn’t let hateful commentary undermine a long-standing policy that improves public safety and embraces immigrants.
“I’m so proud of San Francisco,” Supervisor David Campos, who co-sponsored the nonbinding resolution, said after the vote. “I’m so proud that notwithstanding the climate at the national level of scapegoating immigrants that San Francisco went against that.”
Roy Beck, director of NumbersUSA, which calls for limiting immigration, said it’s frightening that supervisors sided with immigrants who are in the country illegally — even violent ones — rather than public safety.
San Francisco declared itself a sanctuary city in 1989, passing an ordinance that bans city officials from enforcing immigration laws or asking about immigration status unless required by law or court order. A follow-up ordinance in 2013 allows detention only under a court order targeting violent felons.
San Francisco and other cities and counties have routinely ignored requests from ICE to keep people in custody. The jurisdictions say they can’t hold arrestees beyond their scheduled release dates without probable cause.
However, more than half of the roughly 340 jurisdictions that previously declined to cooperate with ICE are now doing so in some form, as long as they don’t have to keep immigrants in custody.
The shift came after outreach by federal immigration officials and several high-profile cases, including the one in San Francisco.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said on Tuesday through a spokeswoman that the unanimous vote by the board validates his policy.
Supervisors voted to table another resolution urging the sheriff to revoke a department-wide memo prohibiting communication between his staff and federal immigration authorities, saying it would send the wrong message to people living in the city illegally.
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