Posted on 06/12/2009 9:55:03 PM PDT by Steelfish
San Francisco at Crossroads Over Immigration
By JESSE McKINLEY Published: June 12, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — In the debate over illegal immigration, San Francisco has proudly played the role of liberal enclave, a so-called sanctuary city where local officials have refused to cooperate with enforcement of federal immigration law and undocumented residents have mostly lived without fear of consequence.
But over the last year, buffeted by several high-profile crimes by illegal immigrants and revelations of mismanagement of the city’s sanctuary policy, San Francisco has become less like its self-image and more like many other cities in the United States: deeply conflicted over how to cope with the fallout of illegal immigration.
At the center of the turnaround is a new law enforcement policy focused on under-age offenders who are in this country illegally. Under the policy, minors brought to juvenile hall on felony charges are questioned about their immigration status. And if they are suspected of being here illegally, they are reported to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for deportation, regardless of whether they are eventually convicted of a crime.
“We went from being one of the more progressive counties in the country to probably one of the least, and the most draconian,” said Abigail Trillin, the managing attorney with Legal Services for Children, a nonprofit legal group. “It’s been a total turnaround.”
Mayor Gavin Newsom, who ordered the new policy, disputes that characterization and ticks off a list of policies that remain immigrant friendly: the issuing of identification cards to residents regardless of legal status, the promotion of low-cost banking and the city’s longstanding opposition to immigration raids.
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Family Sues San Francisco Saying Sanctuary Law to Blame for Murder of Father, Two Sons
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513378,00.html
Maybe he’s figuring out nobody is going to put a mayor, whose policies lead to the murder of most of a family, in as governor.
San Francisco is a communist, wacko cesspool. Nuke it and make it into a lake. Fish gotta live, you know, even if they will have two heads. Easier to catch them, then.
PS: Good people of SF. Get the hell out of Dodge before it is too late. Let the devil sort out the rest.
THe above is satire but this is one of the worst cities in the US and nothing short of a coup d’etat is going to clean it out. You know it; I know it; the whole world knows it. Only Newsome and his reds and illegals refuse to admit it.
WHA-WHA-WHAaaaa.
Thats all folks.
officials have refused to cooperate with enforcement.I wonder what would happen to us if we did sush an act?laws of the land are not for all the people.
“liberal enclave” = socialist shithole.
The SF ox has been gored!
““liberal enclave” = socialist shithole.”
Actually it’s a very nice place in many ways.
It just has too many residents who are nutcases.
How did this guy get to be a county supervisor if he came to this country illegally?
ping!
The ‘86 amnesty?
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