There is no need to look outside the city: San Francisco screwed up.
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On the heels of the decision by Monday’s NBC Nightly News to heavily inject politics into the murder of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle allegedly by an illegal immigrant, Friday’s CBS This Morning used the issue of sanctuary cities to somehow spin it as part of the immigration debate that’s “a tough issue for Republicans.”
In March of this year, with Lopez-Sanchez again in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Victorville, California, called the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department to confirm the outstanding 1995 warrant. And you say if they didn’t have this, it would have this it wouldn’t have happened.
When local authorities opted not to prosecute – no surprise, given how old the charge was – they simply released Lopez-Sanchez in April.
The sheriff’s department said since the charges were dismissed and there was no active warrant or judicial order for Sanchez’s removal, the city’s policy deemed him “ineligible for extended detention” and he was freed.
Clinton answered, “The city made a mistake not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported”. “In the end, it so clearly illustrates the complete breakdown of the system”. Later a person named Sanchez, whom officials have identified as 45-year-old Mexico native, after his arrest it was revealed he had seven felony convictions related to repeated illegal entries into the country and drugs. “But there should be wide support for a response, such as this proposal, that exercises a constitutional prerogative of Congress in order to uphold the law”.
Mirkarimi held a news conference today to set the record straight on Sanchez’s release, adding that the case has brought “a lot of finger pointing”.
Well, both … the federal government and San Francisco are wrong here, and George, let me say at the outset, what a tragedy for this family. Locals who knew Steinle were stunned and saddened last week as news of her death quickly spread throughout the community.
The regulations were streamlined in November 2014 by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, and ICE was told immigrants would be held on a detainer request if they had been convicted of a violent felony or in response to a court order. Hartford is also one.
“There was nothing in [the sanctuary city policy] that prevented our Sheriff from picking up the phone”, Lee told reporters on Wednesday. The agency has said Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez would have been deported if the San Francisco jail had complied with its requests.
In a television interview with KGO, Sanchez said he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt under a bench near the pier.
The shooting highlighted a long-standing “sanctuary city” policy in San Francisco, one of several hundred USA municipalities that limit assistance to federal immigration authorities, as stated by San Francisco officials. His attorney, public defender Matt Gonzalez, said Sanchez has a second-grade education level. Steinle grew up in Pleasanton and graduated from Amador Valley High.
“We were best friends”, Steinle’s mother, Liz Sullivan said. “She and I drew strength from each other, and I just feel that she’s still here”.
A memorial for Kate Steinle was held on Thursday.
For the next three weeks, Lopez-Sanchez sat in the county jail while the sheriff’s legal division pondered what to do with him.
It also facilitates the removal of undocumented convicted felons, she said. “Maybe this will facilitate something to expedite it”. On the Republican side, Sen. Rand Paul said the practice should be reconsidered.
For sanctuary advocates, there isn’t a difference between citizens and foreigners; they believe that immigration enforcement and borders are not legitimate.
When cities-more than 200 of them-decide to pass their own laws “protecting” illegal immigrants, we are not talking about a few calibration or prioritization of “enforcement” levels. Two conservative GOP senators – David Vitter of Louisiana and Tom Cotton of Arkansas – separately proposed amendments that would block federal funding for cities that provide safe harbor for immigrants here illegally.
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