Before the shooting, Garcia Zarate had finished a federal prison sentence for illegal re-entry into the United States and was transferred in March 2015 to San Francisco's jail to face a 20-year-old charge for selling marijuana.
The sheriff's department released him a few days later after the district attorney dropped the marijuana charge, despite a request from federal immigration officials to detain him for deportation.
So SF isn't merely content to be a sanctuary city, they actively bring criminals to their city to release them there rather than let them be deported.
No mention of Steinle in the headline. Almost as if this was just another “accident” that occurred by a hapless homeless immigrant down on their luck.
Pathetic.