Posted on 07/17/2015 11:24:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
San Francisco’s deputy sheriffs have joined the fight over the department’s handling of deportation requests. The deputy’s union is filing a grievance against the sheriff demanding that he rescind his non-cooperation policy with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is running for re-election. His campaign has been hit from all sides over his handling of the Pier 14 shooting suspect, and now his own deputies are entering the fray.
Mirkarimi told reporters the deputy union’s complaint is no surprise. "Exactly, it’s politics," he said.
The deputy sheriffs' grievance says the sheriff’s policy of non-cooperation with ICE "...recklessly compromises the safety of sworn personnel, citizens and those who merely come to visit San Francisco."
The beef comes from the release of Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant who was due to be deported but instead was let out of county jail after prosecutors refused to pursue a minor drug charge.
Lopez Sanchez is now charged with the July 1 murder of Kate Steinle on San Francisco’s waterfront.
Jail deputies had been calling ICE to let the feds know when someone like Lopez Sanchez was due to be released, but in March the sheriff forbid those phone calls.
The grievance demands the department immediately rescind the sheriff’s directive.
Mirkarimi’s response Friday morning was more of a shrug.
"I think they’re trying to capitalize on the fact that this is an election year and they support one of their own -- my opponent -- in the sheriff’s race, and so a fairly predictable move, frankly," said Mirkarimi.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has been trying to oust the sheriff ever since Mirkarimi took office, embroiled in a domestic violence case. Now the mayor and the sheriff are trading jabs over the city’s sanctuary ordinance. The mayor insists there is nothing that forbids the sheriff from picking up the phone and telling ICE when an undocumented inmate is going to be freed. The sheriff insists that such phone calls contradict the spirit and the letter of the law.
"I actually invite the mayor, encourage him, to come with me and the city attorney before the Board of Supervisors so that we can have an open and transparent discussion," said Mirkarimi
The mayor said Friday he stands by his criticism of the sheriff.
We tried reaching the Deputy Sheriff’s Association for comment, but on the day their grievance was made public no one from the association was available to answer our questions.
I doubt her death would even be a local issue in that cat fight, if not for Trump, much less a national issue.
Mirkarimi told reporters the deputy union’s complaint is no surprise. “Exactly, it’s politics,” he said.
If Trump wasn’t running off his mouth this would be ahuge national outcry. Trump gave them an excuse to sweep it under the rug.
“If Trump wasn’t running off his mouth this would be ahuge national outcry. Trump gave them an excuse to sweep it under the rug.”
Sorry, I didn’t realize that I was responding to the house clown when it comes to Open Borders.
Consider my comment retracted.
Heck, I doubt her death would even be a local issue in that cat fight, if not for Trump, much less a national issue.
Horse feathers! The deputy sheriffs' union wouldn't have filed a grievance, were it not for Trump.
You think a union in SF does what Trump says? You have Stockholm Syndrome.
True dat, just like the tens of thousands of other victims of illegal aliens. A family friend was murdered by one of them. No justice whatsoever. In fact, the feckless police suspected her husband until he had proof of where he was at the time of the murder. Twits.
They're not doing what he said. They're taking advantage of the situation he created.
I don’t respond to your posts anymore - they simply TOO SILLY.
Wow...it’s incredible just how deep this protection racket is for Illegals. You can’t even have a thread ON THIS SITE without encountering some of it.
Good that your friend’s husband wasn’t railroaded because of “the cause” but terrible that the crime happened.
Good that your friend’s husband wasn’t railroaded because of “the cause” but terrible that the crime happened
Remember the whole JonBenet Ramsay thing? The cops totally bungled it because they were so focused on the family as suspects. Same with Jaycee Dugard — they destroyed that family. Cops simply do not know how to THINK.
Good points. I was in CA in the 80s. Yes, people were definitely talking about the invasion, but even I was too dumb to understand their points back then. To me, CA was a beautiful place, made that way largely by Illegals (which was certainly true). What I didn’t understand was the demographic impacts - yes, the illegals, by and large, don’t do bad things and are very productive - but they have kids, and those kids have more kids - and in a few decades a once-beautiful place is ‘transformed’ into a hell hole.
What a special pleader you are being!
He wants a triage process, not this wink and nod.
They’re not doing what he said. They’re taking advantage of the situation he created.
Dang, Trump made this whole thing fun again. I never woulda thought.
An enfant terrible exposing the nonsense was so badly needed. Trump stepped up to that plate. So he’s not perfect. Are we looking a gift horse in the mouth?
It’s okay to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Once that gift horse is saddled up (has declared candidacy) and starts working for his oats, you judge him by his results.
Trump has generated more results in one month than any of these jerkwater candidates in the last 8 years.
Now, maybe you need to slow that horse down a bit because it’s a marathon & not a sprint, but this horse has got legs twice the size of any competitor (warchest) and has the demonstrated ability to fight off wolves (LSM Press) better than any other race competitor. This particular horse even has Other Participants, who are Supposedly Friendly (GOPe squishes) biting at his heels, and he regularly kicks them to the curb, sucking for the oxygen he’s stolen from their lungs.
There’s your analogy.
Well, he has managed to latch onto something that has an unexpected power: the truth
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