Posted on 09/17/2008 7:48:37 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco -- Nearly 30 percent of the felony offenders San Francisco juvenile justice officials have reported to federal immigration authorities since the city stopped shielding youths from deportation have turned out to be adults, authorities say.
The city's Juvenile Probation Department has referred 58 offenders to federal authorities since Mayor Gavin Newsom announced July 2 that the city no longer would protect youths from deportation under San Francisco's sanctuary law. The mayor took the step after The Chronicle revealed that the city was paying for flights home and $7,000-a-month group homes for underage, undocumented offenders, who as adults could face prison and automatic deportation.
Of those 58 offenders, authorities have concluded that 17 - or 29.3 percent - were adults, based on immigration records and the statements of offenders themselves, federal immigration officials say. Most of the 58 were being held on drug-dealing charges.
"It confirms our early suspicion that adults were taking advantage of the sanctuary policy in order to evade detection, responsibility and prosecution for criminal behavior," said Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney for Northern California.
Russoniello said adult illegal immigrants convicted of felonies face almost certain deportation, but San Francisco's previous policy of not reporting juveniles who had committed similar offenses to federal officials encouraged offenders to "game the system" and say they were underage.
Advocates for the immigrant youths say that just because some offenders turn out to be adults does not mean the city should report all juvenile immigrant offenders to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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What a surprise!
The city officials of SF have no shame.
It’s Juan-More-Time from Ritchie Valens Junior High School.
for the afire ping list
I like the title, SANctuary FRANCISCO.
"But for fear of the system being abused, we are now going to treat minors the same way as adults. We don't buy it; we don't believe that immigrant youths should be treated any differently than other youth. We believe what the mayor is doing, his change in policy, is wrong. We see him caving in to anti-immigrant interests."
NO it is NOT anti-immigrant it is anti-CRIMINAL immigrant.
Why is it that racist Hispanics can get away with this kind of crap and no one calls them on it?
Why do these bleeding heart reconquestas think that we should want to keep these felons in our contry where they can continue to commit crimes.
These are not round faced wide eyed little kids who got caught shop lifting a candy bar at the local convenience store.
These are hardened gang banger dope dealing criminals who would as likely beat you to death as to rape your sister.
Matier and Ross also had this on top of their pile today.
CA: Hundreds of adult illegals also got sanctuary (San FRancisco, 372 convicted felons on probation)
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