Posted on 04/22/2007 7:35:54 PM PDT by SmithL
Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed Sunday to maintain San Francisco as a sanctuary for immigrants and do everything he can to discourage federal authorities from conducting immigration raids.
The mayor cannot stop federal authorities from making arrests, Newsom told about 300 mostly Latino members of St. Peter's Church and other religious groups supporting immigrants. But no San Francisco employee will help with immigration enforcement.
"I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it."
The Board of Supervisors first declared San Francisco a "sanctuary city" in 1989. The designation, which many U.S. cities across the country took on during the 1980s, has no legal meaning.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have since May 2006 conducted raids across the country, including arrests in San Rafael, Oakland, Richmond, San Pablo, Santa Clara and other cities across the Bay area. Immigration officials have said they were executing arrest warrants for immigrants who had committed crimes or were in the country illegally and had ignored final deportation orders.
In the course of serving deportation warrants, the officials said, other people whom officers suspected of being illegal immigrants were questioned and then arrested. Of at least 65 Marin County residents arrested in March, for example, just five had been ordered deported.
The raids, many of which conducted at private homes before dawn and some of which caught up legal immigrants and even citizens, have created an uproar in the Bay Area. Politicians and community leaders have demanded they end, saying some immigrants parents are now afraid to send their children to school or leave home.
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Jail him.
If he breaks federal laws, or prevents their enforcement, then he should face justice.
Sword swallower.
I hope there’s a bed at Supermax waiting for him.
Newsom pledges to make SF even more of a hellhole than it already is
Good. Let them flood the city and take it down the toliet.
And .. probably the reason that so many upper mobile blacks are now leaving the city.
I have decided that I don’t like city taxes. Oh, and parking tickets.
Gavin Newsom should be charged with aiding and abetting the breaking of federal law.
For a minute, I thought you said "uppity." Sorry, my bad.
When we defy federal immigration law, we're really doing it for the children. Excuse me while I go take a Newsome and wipe my San Franscisco.
Fine. Maybe there's a brave Republican in the House or Senate who will introduce legislation tying federal funds to cooperation in the fight against illegal immigration. No cooperation - no funds. Much like what Lousenberg did tying the speed limit to federal funding for highway projects.
I wont be holding my breath, however.
Go ahead, let them all flock there. The city cannot keep federal agents from coming in and rounding them all up. Easier to find them all in one place than scattered about. Then jail Newsom for aiding in the commission of a felony.
Make no mistake about it not one dime of my money will be spent in that sanctuary city. He deserves any problems that comes with that status too. I guess he doesn't care about LEGAL CITIZENS and what they think.
Since when is intentionally breaking Federal laws is an honorable thing?
Mayor Boro said Friday that San Rafael has not declared itself a sanctuary city.
“It is not a city’s responsibility to enforce immigration laws, any more than it is the responsibility of federal agents to enforce city laws,” Boro said.
Boro said he looked into making San Rafael a sanctuary city but decided against doing so because it would do nothing to stop ICE from continuing its raids. “It would give people a false sense of hope,” Boro said.
Boro said he is most concerned about the effect the raids are having on the children of immigrants, many of whom are legal U.S. residents because they were born here.
“They’re living in fear right now,” Boro said. “Eventually, that fear is going to turn into resentment.”
TOUGH!
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