Feinstein scolds S.F. for freeing man accused in pier killing
She sat on her fat ass the last 20 years and did nothing but support it and now she feigns outrage?
Anyway...this story isn't about her.
It's about Campos.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, (left) leads Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, into the courtroom for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco, Calif. on Tues. July 7, 2015, on suspicion of murder in the shooting death of Kate Steinle on San Francisco's Pier 14 last Wednesday.San Francisco assistant district attorney Diana Garcia follows behind.
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Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, is seen in this April 22, 2015 photo.
In a sharply worded rebuke just days after the killing of Kathryn Steinle, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the man charged with her murder — an immigrant in this country illegally who had a string of felonies and deportations — “should not have been released” by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and urged the city to “take immediate action” against further tragedy and join a new federal program aimed at deporting “dangerous criminal aliens.”
In a letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Feinstein expressed her outrage that defendant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez was freed in April despite a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. She placed the blame for his crime squarely on Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s department.
“I strongly believe that an undocumented individual, convicted of multiple felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released,” she wrote to Lee. “The tragic death of Ms. Steinle could have been avoided if the Sheriff’s Department had notified ICE prior to the release of Mr. Sanchez, which would have allowed ICE to remove him from the country.”
Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, urged local officials to “prevent such a tragedy from happening again” by having the city participate in the Department of Homeland Security’s new Priority Enforcement Program, which was created as part of President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration.
L.A. joining program
Feinstein said that by agreeing to participate, “San Francisco would provide notice to ICE before releasing aliens with long criminal records.” She noted that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has adopted a resolution requesting that the Los Angeles County sheriff also take part in the program.
Lee’s spokeswoman Christine Falvey said Tuesday that his office “has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to understand how San Francisco could participate” in the federal program “while still upholding the laws and values of our city’s sanctuary-city ordinance, which does not prohibit local law enforcement from contacting federal authorities.”
She said Lee “shares the senator’s concerns surrounding the nature of Mr. Sanchez’s transfer to San Francisco and release.” But she said Lee “has always maintained that our sanctuary status does not create a safe haven for people convicted of serious or violent felonies, and he wants to understand how the Department of Homeland Security’s Priority Enforcement Program can help us prevent a similar tragedy.”
But progressive members of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday reiterated their strong support for San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy and the legislation, approved by all supervisors and the mayor in 2013, prohibiting the release of undocumented immigrants to ICE unless they have committed violent felonies. The release of Lopez-Sanchez appears to have been in line with city policy because none of his felonies was violent.
Speaking to a bank of television cameras before the supervisors’ Tuesday afternoon meeting, Supervisor John Avalos said he doesn’t think the city’s policy should be changed.
“Either the legislation exists or it doesn’t exist,” he said. “If it doesn’t exist, you’ll see that witnesses will not be protected and they will be fearful of talking to law enforcement, and that will have a detrimental impact on everyone’s safety.”
Widespread anger
Feinstein’s tough words came as outrage rippled from Sacramento to Capitol Hill, with legislators slamming city officials’ actions and proposing get-tough measures aimed at avoiding a repeat tragedy.
In her first major televised interview as a presidential candidate, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton also joined the chorus, telling CNN, “I think the city made a mistake” by not handing Lopez-Sanchez over to ICE, and saying he should have been deported.
In Sacramento, state Sen. Jeff Stone, R-Riverside, proposed what appears to be the first legislation aimed at revising the 2013 California Trust Act, which has come under scrutiny since Steinle’s slaying. The Trust Act says local law enforcement officials can hold people suspected of being in this country illegally for federal authorities only if they have been convicted of specified serious or violent crimes. There is no evidence, however, that those requirements would have applied to Lopez-Sanchez.
Stone told The Chronicle that his bill “will require all of California‘s cities and counties to cooperate fully with federal immigration authorities,” especially when criminals in custody for drug offenses are involved.
On Capitol Hill on Tuesday, legislators slammed both local and federal officials for freeing Lopez-Sanchez.
“He had a criminal warrant but was released into the general society to commit a murder. Does that make any sense to you?” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee, said at a Tuesday hearing. “Because I’ll tell you it doesn’t make any sense to the American public.”
Philip Miller, an ICE official, blamed San Francisco, saying officials here did not honor a federal request, known as a detainer, to keep Lopez-Sanchez in custody. Mirkarimi has repeatedly defended his office’s move — and has faulted ICE for failing to deliver a warrant for Lopez-Sanchez, which he insists would be required to detain him further.
Supervisor David Campos, who entered the United States illegally from Guatemala as a child, said “a lot of hysteria” about the slaying was clouding the important reasons for the sanctuary-city policy to exist, including enabling people who are in the U.S. illegally to report crimes freely and serve as witnesses without fear of deportation.
“The focus should be on substance and not on political points that people want to score,” he said. “My fear is that we’re going to let the act of one individual — horrific as it was — dictate a policy and lead to an overreaction that makes the entire community unsafe.”
So I got this straight this guy Campos who concocts the rules for Sanctuary Cities is here illegally himself? What does this tell you about how deep-rooted the left is with their scam called Sanctuary Cities? "We need illegals in the U.S. to report crimes freely and serve as witnesses without fear of deportation for being a witness to another illegal committing a crime?" So when they witness a crime and a person then goes to jail he or she is then released because of the Sanctuary City policy. This makes no sense. I'm sure Campos's 'only interest' in this is for the safety of the community and not to import more illegals.
Nine lives were lost in Charleston in a senseless act of murder but it pales in comparison to the amount of Americans killed by illegals. Click here. There may be someone you know or at the very least heard about.
Maybe Campos is worried about Trump. Operation Wetback part 2?
He pointed out that many city police chiefs — including San Francisco’s Greg Suhr and New York City’s William Bratton — are supporters of sanctuary-city policies.
Sharp words from union
However, San Francisco’s police union on Tuesday published strong wording on its Facebook page that called sanctuary city a “failed San Francisco policy” that has been backed by progressive politicians including Mirkarimi and Public Defender Jeff Adachi. It did not note that Mayor Lee and Suhr, who has strong union support, also backed it.
“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. He is an ILLEGAL ALIEN not an undocumented immigrant and if he was where he belonged (Mexico) this innocent victim would still be alive,” the union’s post reads.
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