Posted on 04/09/2008 8:46:49 AM PDT by SmithL
If you're one of the estimated thousands of illegal immigrants living in San Francisco, you're now learning via billboards and TV spots that this town is a self-declared sanctuary from federal border controls.
You can visit a health clinic, report a crime and enroll your kids in local schools without fear of refusal or deportation. San Francisco, via a $83,000 campaign in five languages, wants this slice of its population to know about these humane policies.
Except none of it is really true - or necessary. San Francisco isn't a deep-moated castle protected from federal immigration rules, which trump the city's well-intentioned "policy." Immigrants know this, and though they may appreciate the city's stance, they understand that federal sweeps can occur at any time.
San Francisco isn't alone in its contrived thinking. Other cities across the country have adopted sanctuary policies that offer slim protections to illegal residents. At best, these policies oblige police not to help federal immigration officers. For the most part, these declarations are political stances aimed at telling Washington to acknowledge the obvious: There are some 12 million undocumented immigrants in the country whose status badly needs clarification.
San Francisco is right to offer these twilight residents respect and fair treatment. But along with genuine help goes outer-orbit grandstanding, which is fueling the latest campaign pushed by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Will a frightened mother really glance at a Mission District billboard and decide to take her children for immunization shots at a clinic at San Francisco General? Will a Chinatown resident now feel better about reporting a rent-gouging landlord?
Far better are the substantive steps that San Francisco is taking. The slow rollout of free health coverage has potential to explain and offer services in an organized way. Job training must be expanded, and schools should...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Another day, another Juan McCain stump speech.
I say let ‘em all (kooks, AIDS carriers, druggies, cons, illegals) be moved to San Fransissyco. We should welcome it and wall off the city from the rest of the USA.
“twilight residents”?? That’s a new one!
I think the term is appropriate given the fact that SF has been in the twilight zone for a long time now.
Their status is "illegal alien" - clear enough?
So now we have another new PC term for lawbreakers...Twilight Residents . Kalifornia .. look to your future. It seems very bleak indeed.
“Escape from San Francisco” instead of “Escape from New York”...I’m down with it.
}:-)4
Twilight residents living in the twinkletoes city.
I don’t know, I kinda like Twilight Residents — it likens these criminals to the VAMPIRES they are.
Martin Sheen tried this with Santa Monica. He wanted to welcome all the homeless, and got alot of them. The idea didn’t last long.
Ping!
“Martin Sheen tried this with Santa Monica. He wanted to welcome all the homeless, and got alot of them. The idea didn’t last long.”
Sounds like good reading. Any links handy?
Why do they keep retelling that lie?
How about the Truth?
40-50 MILLION!!!
Malibu Keeping Sheen as Honorary Mayor query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?.../People/S/Sheen, Martin
Sheen, Martin biography www.s9.com/Biography/Sheen-Martin.
1989 – He was named Honorary Mayor of Malibu, CA. He promptly marked his appointment with a decree proclaiming the area "a nuclear-free zone, a sanctuary for [illegal] aliens and the homeless, and a protected environment for all life, wild and tame."
He never met a liberal cause he didn't like.
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