jimnyc
05-10-2016, 08:11 AM
Last June, when he said he was running as a Republican for president, billionaire Donald Trump famously called out Mexico for sending "people that have lots of problems" across the border. Quoth the Donald: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Many were offended to hear Trump equate undocumented immigrants with dangerous criminals.
Yet the same thing is happening on the Left Coast. Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a measure to reinforce a sanctuary city policy -- named "Due Process for All" and passed in 2013. On KQED's "Forum" on Monday, Supervisor John Avalos talked about the ordinance as protecting the undocumented immigrant community, when in fact the policy shields undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records. Like Trump, Avalos can't distinguish between undocumented and felonious.
The 2013 measure in question directed local law enforcement not to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the pending release of undocumented inmates from custody -- unless they committed a violent felony within the past seven years.
That policy shielded Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican national with seven felony convictions who had been deported five times. Rather than notify ICE, former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi released Lopez-Sanchez, who later was charged in the July 1 murder of Kate Steinle, a San Francisco woman taking an evening stroll with her father on Pier 14. (Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty.) Because the shooting was so avoidable, it became a national story.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/10/sanctuary_city_criminals_welcome_130522.html
Yet the same thing is happening on the Left Coast. Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a measure to reinforce a sanctuary city policy -- named "Due Process for All" and passed in 2013. On KQED's "Forum" on Monday, Supervisor John Avalos talked about the ordinance as protecting the undocumented immigrant community, when in fact the policy shields undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records. Like Trump, Avalos can't distinguish between undocumented and felonious.
The 2013 measure in question directed local law enforcement not to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the pending release of undocumented inmates from custody -- unless they committed a violent felony within the past seven years.
That policy shielded Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican national with seven felony convictions who had been deported five times. Rather than notify ICE, former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi released Lopez-Sanchez, who later was charged in the July 1 murder of Kate Steinle, a San Francisco woman taking an evening stroll with her father on Pier 14. (Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty.) Because the shooting was so avoidable, it became a national story.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/10/sanctuary_city_criminals_welcome_130522.html