Posted on 05/06/2010 7:59:22 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco officials are about to lose the ability to decide which criminal suspects who may also be undocumented immigrants should be reported to federal officials, The Chronicle has learned.
Starting next month, the San Francisco County Jail must begin participating in an automated reporting system set up by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The program, Secure Communities, automatically links the fingerprint databases of state justice departments with a database used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, known as ICE.
As part of San Francisco's 1989 sanctuary city policy, officials only report felony suspects whose legal status can't be readily confirmed upon booking to federal officials. The new program would end that discretionary practice because all digital fingerprints will automatically be forwarded to the state Department of Justice and on to federal immigration authorities for review.
"Essentially, this guts San Francisco's sanctuary ordinance in terms of criminal justice," San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey told The Chronicle on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
If California was given an enema, they would stick the syringe in San Francisco. What a horrid embarrassment that commie dung heap is to REAL Californians.
“If California was given an enema, they would stick the syringe in San Francisco. What a horrid embarrassment that commie dung heap is to REAL Californians.”
If that were to happen, I get the impression that California would be able to fit within the borders of Delaware.
poor little crimaliens...
Won’t this cause illegals to distrust the police and not cooperate with the law. You know, like how they cooperated with the immigration laws.
In most sanctuary cities, likely illegals aren't pursued at all in the first place.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard of car accidents in which Hispanics in the upper-midwest, were hit-and-run drivers or, if their cars didn't work, were simply noted as having no insurance and never arrested and, therefore, never showed up on their court date.
After all, there's no legal residency for these people, so how can you enforce a court date? Where do you serve your subpoena, even if you had one? They are a protected class, above the law.
Hey, that's why we all of us honest folks have to pay extra for “Uninsured Motorist Coverage”.../S
San Fran should have ALL Federal funding cut off until it complies with US law.
Legitimate Justice trumps “Social Justice” -oh the humanity....
San Fransico should be kicked out of the United States.
About 1/4 down on the page - it's sickening.
Ping!
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