Posted on 07/01/2008 7:48:42 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco -- An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday.
The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-immigrant drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco's 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
Until recently, San Francisco flew juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of drug crimes to their home countries rather than cooperate with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a practice that drew national attention when The Chronicle reported it Sunday.
When federal law enforcement authorities demanded that San Francisco halt the flights and began a criminal investigation, the city decided to house some of the dealers in long-term youth rehabilitation centers. Some of those centers are run by a nonprofitcompany called Silverlake Youth Services in mountain towns southeast of San Bernardino.
Eight Honduran juveniles who had been convicted of dealing drugs in San Francisco were sent within the past few weeks to the company's group homes, where one month's placement costs $7,000 per youth - an expense borne by San Francisco taxpayers.
Within 10 days of being sent to the unlocked group homes, however, all eight youths ran away, said Bill Siffermann, head of juvenile probation in San Francisco. He said his agency has issued arrest warrants for them.
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Well, gollleeee, Gomer, no one could have expected THAT!
How soon can the earthquake hit?
I wholeheartedly agree that San Francisco should pay for these people to fly back to wherever they come from....keep it up and maybe we’ll be rid of the trash.....why should we taxpayers pay for them to sit in our jails while they can easily go back to their home countries and cause havoc there?
Undocumented immigrants selling unapproved pharmaceuticals.
“An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival...”
“Backfired?” It seems that it worked exactly as planned.
We are percieved as weak and helpless by other countries now.
American justice is a joke as seen by most of these illegal immigrants and probably now terrorists as well.
Once the Republican Party sold out to the illegal immigration cause, they thoroughly undermined their right to argue as the party of “the rule of law”. And when some laws apply and some laws don’t, then we get what we see in San Francisco; blatant lawlessness, with no one having the authority to call it for what it is, and to reign it in.
So now we’re arresting U.S. drug dealers, but letting illegal immigrant drug dealers go? Isn’t there an equal protection of the law argument here?
"San Francisco" doesn't make "efforts" to shield anything; certain political people in San Francisco did this and if those political people aren't brought to justice by the feds, it is Bush who is ultimately responsible because he will have given the efforts his blessing by his failure to right the wrong. One could even reasonably assume that these San Francisco authorities were operating on instructions handed down by Bush himself.
Damm place needs a vist from Gen Sherman
PLEASE let there be an earthquake there, PLEASE!
We should give SF to Mexico.
And I left my butt cracked in San Fransicko...
but what we should really do is give these sanctuary cities what they want they won't allow us to deport the crimigrants
so all the other local law enforcement agencies should just drop off all their illegals in the sanctuary cities, they can turn san fran into san salvador maybe then the limosine liberals will see the light
Now THAT'S an extremely dangerous thing to do in that vicinity.
Disadvantaged orphan indigent youths barely scraping by selling non-FDA approved pharmaceuticals.
Don't want to characterize them too harshly do we??? /s
Remember when the lefties criticized Ashcroft for saying they were “pro-crime?” Seems pretty clear that they are pro-crime, though.
Let’s see if I get this:
San Francisco refuses to prosecute criminals.
San Francisco transports same criminals to Southern California, without much information given to citizens of Southern California.
San Francisco pays high prices to house these criminals AWAY from San Francisco.
San Francisco is going broke faster than the state of California.
San Francisco housed criminals in somewhat unsupervised conditions.
Criminals have now escaped into Southern California citizens domain, and San Francisco plays dumb on the whole affair.
San Francisco proves once again that they deserve the mayor and the other politicians they keep electing.
If I lived in the Southern California area where these criminals escaped, I would place a very large LAWSUIT against San Francisco.
You can’t run a country this way and expect to remain a sovereign nation. It’s very discouraging to US citizens to watch illegal aliens be entitled to extra rights that would never be afforded to legal, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens.
These juveniles have a bright shining future in the Democratic Party.
Attention: Nancy Pelosi!
now that is an idea i like...wonder if sheriff joe would be willing to do that...
I bet sherrif Joe would ship them from AZ up to san fran the cost of a bus ticket has to be cheaper than keeping them in jail in AZ
As long as they took their guns with them, SF could care less.
Well, Siffermann did say that, since the Feds are investigating the taxpayer funded frequent flyer drug dealer program, the Probation Department will be looking at other options for detention. Looks like they found one. If we can’t let ‘em go at the San Francisco airport, we’ll let ‘em go somewhere else. It’s all the same, just as long as the dealers keep up the payments.
Follow the money. San Francisco’s finest may claim to be principled, but in the end, they’re no different than any other corrupt public official.
Grew up and was educated there, at a better time, in a better place...
Stop it. You’re crack’in me up.
Good Ol’ SF. It was to be a heckuva corrput town way back when,, nowadays, laws? what laws? just like ol’ times. ;-)
Gastric Nuisance should be real proud of his own personal lil cesspool and circus at City Hall.
> Until recently, San Francisco flew juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of drug crimes to their home countries rather than cooperate with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency
Doesn’t your Federal law enforcement agencies have “Obstruction of Justice” or “Accessory after-the-fact” charges that they can lay? And if so, why aren’t they using them against the San Francisco city fathers? What immunity does the City of San Fransicko have that ordinary Americans don’t?
Within 10 days of being sent to the unlocked group homes, however, all eight youths ran away,.....
Another fine episode of “when liberals run things”....
Aiding and abetting fugitives not a crime anymore ?!?!?
something doesn’t smell right about this, and I’m not talking about the program. How exactly were they flying these people to another country without any documentation? How exactly were they being admitted into the other country without any documentation? you have to go through TSA and immigration to leave the U.S., and have to have papers to get into every country they may have originally came from. there are some serious laws being broken here beyond just shielding criminals.
Very cool tagline. ;o)
San Francisco needs an army of Dirty Harry Callahans.
Under section 642(a) of IIRIRA, a “Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.”
That bears repeating.
To be fair....they were too busy along with their sister city Oakland evicting those pesky Marine recruiters to be bothered with apprehending and containing mere crack peddlers. I think we should give those illegals a nice “sanctuary” in a Turkish prison. If we are going to waste the fuel to fly them somewhere that would be a good destination.
Once they’ve established the precedent for picking and choosing which laws to obey, and which laws to ignore, they shouldn’t be surprised at anything that happens there.
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