Posted on 06/25/2009 7:46:13 AM PDT by SmithL
The problem isn't that San Francisco lacks good ideas. It is that it takes them too far.
In a period of 20 years, we went from a reasonable sanctuary policy that shielded political exiles who were here illegally to District Attorney Kamala Harris justifying letting first-time drug offenders clear their convictions even though they were illegal immigrants and subject to deportation.
But here's the question: Why didn't anyone see this coming? Wasn't the uproar a year ago enough to get everyone's attention?
Last year, The Chronicle's Jaxon VanDerbeken revealed that the city had been transporting convicted juvenile crack dealers back to Honduras rather than turning them over to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Naturally, there was a national furor.
When that happened, everyone, from Mayor Gavin Newsom to the famously liberal Board of Supervisors, couldn't get away from the idea quickly enough. Newsom, who is running for governor and doesn't want to look soft on crime, decreed that juvenile justice officials should turn over underage offenders to immigration authorities. And this week Harris, who is running for attorney general, spoke of a "design flaw" in her Back on Track program and said it had been fixed.
It was a reminder that passing feel-good legislation can lead to unintended consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
You reap what you sew. Enjoy SF.
Slag Francisco is turning back into the lawless Barbary Coast cesspool it was in 1859.
“The problem isn’t that San Francisco lacks good ideas.”
No ... the problem are the moronic ideas and policies of the far-left politicians who are voted in by the even farther left majority in the city. They have turned a city on one of the most physically beautiful locations in the world into a literal sewer that you should not even pass through much less live in.
MOre of the same old S F crap= do as I say- not as I do.
In the midst of this mess, the big news in S F is that everyone MUST ‘compost’ their food scraps.
Anyone have any idea how many apartments and condos there are in S F? The sanitation laws will be instantly broken. The 4 legged rats can’t read.
Is that like a "wardrobe malfunction", a "botched joke", a "faith-based program" or a "man-caused disaster"?
This clown is clueless. What he fails to recognize is that “sanctuary” is on track. It was corrupt at the outset and has merely evolved to a broader form of corruption today.
It’ symptomatic of liberals like this cretin that they always forget that Darwinism exists in the human condition as well as the lower animal world. They just don’t get it.
The “design flaw” is that Harris & Co. got caught.
How about sending one Yuppie to Mexico for every illegal they give sanctuary to?
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