Posted on 01/19/2017 7:44:55 AM PST by Cheerio
(Reuters) - An undocumented immigrant from El Salvador is suing San Francisco alleging police violated the city's sanctuary city policy by turning him over to U.S. immigration authorities after he reported his car stolen.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Pedro Figueroa Zarceno, 32, in federal court in San Francisco against the city and its police chief for violating his right to due process and breaking an ordinance barring municipal employees from cooperating with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport a person.
Figueroa walked into a police station in November 2015 to report his car stolen, according to the lawsuit. Two days later, the car was found and when he went to recover it, he was handcuffed and led outside where federal immigration agents were waiting for him, the lawsuit said.
The civil action comes as San Francisco and dozens of other U.S. cities face pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday, to abandon their policies of limiting cooperation between law enforcement officers and U.S. immigration authorities.
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That wouldn’t happen where I live.
How much are the taxpayers of San Francisco paying his attorney?
Throw out the lawsuit and deport the illegal alien.
He should have been deported years ago.
How can a city government nullify federal law?????
Couldn’t a Texas city nullify EPA regs and Tax laws to make a city great again? NOPE.... Lib-double standards...
I'm sure this won't be the first time this guy was deported.
... police violated the city’s sanctuary city policy...
NEVER get into a conversation with the Devil! Yet, as we know, the Left chats with him all day and he gives them high-minded, self-righteous ideas to play with.
“Sanctuary Cities” has his customary sheep’s clothing, but here Pedro shows the wolf underneath, looking for MORE to devour, MORE expansion of the original foothold, MORE ingratitude masquerading as legitimate plaint.
LINK: San Francisco puts Sanctuary Before Funding -townhall.com
EXCERPT: "...Figueroa-Zarceno, who was facing a 2005 deportation order and was convicted of drunken driving in 2012."
What $%^#ing rights does the dirt-bag have? Why the $#%^ is he still in this country to sue?
As a gruff old Freeper schooled me once, “The Constitution and our laws apply to everybody equally.” Some leftists and many government officials disagree with that statement, and they over step their bounds. Also, many of them don’t understand the concept of “sovereignty” at both the state and Federal level. Finally, many politicians don’t have the guts to stand up and tell people they are wrong, even on the most important of issues. Hence we have an illegal immigrant, suing a city over an unconstitutional “law”.
“his car stolen”
How did he get a car? Oh, rights right this is Cali.
“his car stolen”
How did he get a car? Oh, That’s right this is Cali.
Why is he still here?
I don’t usually eat popcorn, but I might have to make an exception for this show!
I think San Francisco is trying to set up a test case that it can win in both the court of public opinion and in the lower district courts . the idea is to build up case law in the lower court so that when the city goes after Trump for taking away funding in the supreme court it will have a bunch of cases in the ninth district court supporting the city regulation of non corporation.
Agree. Overall test of the 10th Amendment and constitutional laws over local ordinances and up.
Oh, course the result of the litigation will likely be much like the police duty to protect. It doesn't really exist as you can't rely upon a City's police force to protect you. I would wager you can't rely upon a City's civil employees to shield you from federal deportation laws.
Hmm. Maybe once that becomes know, illegal aliens will no longer trust sanctuary cities to protect them.
Sounds like the litigation will be a win-win for the public
If they’re sane it’ll get thrown out due to lack of standing.
Of course, they’re not sane, though.
Another “political refugee” who takes regular vacations home to El Salvador, like the Tsarnaev/-istan bomber/system gamers?
Get him outta here.
I wonder if filing this federal lawsuit delays the plaintiff’s deportation? Regardless, the schadenfreude in this is sweet and goes well with my morning coffee.
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