Posted on 07/07/2015 11:02:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Francisco Police Union Lashes Out Against Sanctuary City Policy, Takes Aim at Politicians, Public Defender, Sheriff
The San Francisco police union jumped into the national debate on immigration stemming from a random shooting that killed a 32-year-old woman walking along the pier by pointing fingers at the county’s liberal-leaning public defender and sheriff for their stance on sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
In a Monday post, the San Francisco Police Officers Association took aim at San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and San Francisco County Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, along with other unnamed local politicians, who by city and county law, don’t deport immigrants unless they have active warrants out for their arrests.
Adachi released a statement Monday expressing concern about what he called "POA rhetoric."
"The Police Officers Association must have forgotten that the city's current sanctuary policy was fully supported by the chief of police, the district attorney, the mayor, and all 11 members of the board of supervisors when it passed," Adachi said, adding that the union's post could harm the efforts to rebuild community trust between police and the immigrant community.
The city and county of San Francisco voted to become a sanctuary city in 2013.
In the case of Francisco Sanchez, charged with the July 1 murder of Kate Steinle along Pier 14, the jail, run by Mirkarimi, let Sanchez go without sending him back to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency despite a “detainer” request to do so. Sanchez is an undocumented immigrant, who has been deported from the United States five times, records show.
"Bottom line is a young innocent woman has been murdered in cold blood, in front of her father, by a 5 time deported illegal alien drug dealer," the union's Facebook post read. "He is an ILLEGAL ALIEN not an undocumented immigrant and if he was where he belonged (Mexico) this innocent victim would still be alive.” Many of the comments on the post supported the union. "PC crap is out of control," Chris Tallerico wrote.
Others took a more nuanced view. Casey Grim wrote: "Terribly sad, but the truth is it would have happened in Mexico if he had been in Mexico. A pointless murder that isn't on our soil isn't any less terrible. Many illegal immigrants are farmers looking to make money for their families back home, often they travel back home after they've saved a decent amount. This tragedy is horrific, and heart wrenching, but we shouldn't blame illegal immigrants."
For his part, Mirkarimi has defended his position on not complying with ICE detainers, and has said that the immigration agency could have put a court order on Sanchez if the agency wanted him so badly. He said on Tuesday that his officers used to call ICE on a case-by-case basis, but he told them not to in March, to comply with city and county policy.
The union’s post also made reference to the “tragic death of Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Mathew, 16, in 2008 by a previously deported ILLEGAL ALIEN.”
In that case, police believed that two suspects mistook one of the Bologna sons for a rival gang member. The triple-murder case brought national attention to San Francisco in 2008 because of the city's sanctuary policy, which shielded undocumented juveniles suspected of crimes from being reported to federal immigration officials.
One of the suspects, Edwin Ramos, 25, who was later convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, moved to the United States as a teen and remained in the country on an expired visa from El Salvador, was never reported to federal authorities despite multiple contacts with police as a juvenile. The police union equated the same attitude toward sanctuary cities with the “tragic death of Kate Steinle. If this city and some of its elected official continue with this failed policy then it will happen again.”
Illegal Aliens:
They kill whites, and they vote Democrat.
Perfect Progressives.
I guess this means that we can have gay marriage sanctuary cities too, where people do not have to comply with federal government mandates? I'm sure that Mirkarimi will be right then to defend those cities right to do so.
-PJ
the donald started/ maybe not but peaked the conversation. wow
if you read Charles Murray’s book “By the People” one of the key components to the civil disobedience is for the wealthy to lead and fund this type of movement. Trump is doing it.
Not buying it Adachi. There's nothing in this statement about the POA also supporting the sanctuary policy. They were probably never asked anyway. If they were, they would have told you people what to do with your feel good sanctuary policy. Anyway, the Chief is hired and fired by the politicians, so he is going to give his wildly enthusiastic support to whatever nonsense they come up with. Or resign because they will fire him if he doesn't.
I hope the POA issues a public letter which points out the disingenuous of Adaci's statement.
Union scum that pays the RATS! Blood is on their hands!
Goodness. This is good. Maybe illegals will leave Texas and go there.
“They kill whites, and they vote Democrat.”
They do more than just kill whites...they are killing America and are replacing our morals and values with their own...which amount to an animalistic society that thwarts decency, laws and any form of integration to American culture.
Few of our political leaders are interested in protecting the citizens from fraudulently documented foreigners.
Both parties are complicit in this young woman’s death.
Most of them are still invested in keeping The Cheap Labor Express running.
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