Posted on 06/29/2008 8:26:47 AM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city's immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.
The city's practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco's policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.
Federal authorities counter that drug kingpins are indeed exploiting the immigrants, but that the city's stance allows them to get away with "gaming the system."
San Francisco juvenile authorities have been grappling for several years with an influx of young Honduran immigrants dealing crack in the Mission District and Tenderloin.
Those who are arrested routinely say they are minors, but police suspect that many are actually adults, living communally in Oakland and other cities at the behest of drug traffickers who claim to be their relatives.
Nonetheless, city authorities have typically accepted the suspects' stories and handled the cases in Juvenile Court, where proceedings are often shielded from public scrutiny.
Barred by state law from sending drug offenders to the California Youth Authority and bound by a 1989 city law defining San Francisco as a sanctuary city for immigrants - meaning officials do not cooperate with federal immigration investigations - juvenile officials settled on an unorthodox strategy.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
This is so typical of the outlaw, socialist, liberal city of San Freakcisco. Newsome, the arch criminal and law-breaker, running that liberal dung heap, should have been put in prison a long time ago. What an embarrassment to those of us who are life-long Californians.
Totally disgusting. I won’t get near that crap-hole of a city...
Thanks to George Bush the whole US is a sanctuary. I’m becoming more convinced that the drug cartels have control of governments on both sides of our southern border.
Federal and State law with local court orders and San Francisco’s policies; hmm... let’s see court orders trump city policies, state laws trump court orders, and federal law trumps state law. There Frisco did that make it simple enough for you? Your city policy is a lossing hand.
The Feds should charge each official harbouring the youthful crack dealer with Misprisonment - knowledge of a felony and concealing the information from the proper Federal authorities. If the defense is “santuary city” status, charge the Mayor and approving councilcritters with the same felony. Problem solved.
And he was the "conservative" candidate.
Is San Freaksico a part of the United States?
Why?
Bingo
Federal takeover of the city and seizure of the city assets is the way to deal with "santuary citys"
Bulldoze SanFranFreko and build a freeway through it. Deport Newsom and the rest. The city died years ago when DiFi allowed the queers to run unchecked and vandalize the city.
Most parts of the city smell like urine from all the so-called homeless.
Simple solution. Build a wall around San Francisco.
The city thumb suckers and ....
Next in San Francisco: it will be a felony to be an American citizen living there.
Prosecute the city supervisors,mayor and police chief under 8USC1324 which includes the offense of harboring and concealing aliens.There is no requirement that one need physically hide out the aliens to be convicted.
Yeah, I got sick one time from walking by an area where the stench of urine was so overpowering. Another time, I saw human feces on a sidewalk there a couple of years ago. Why I'm so glad I no longer live anywhere near that city.
Send ALL criminals to San Francisco, including illegal immigrants. Add all the homeless folks. Build the border fence extension around the whole mess. Deploy our military forces the San Frans hate to shoot anyone trying to escape.
Life in Occupied Kalifornistan
I thought the issue of whether one obeyed federal or state law was settled at Appomattox Courthouse.
Well, they had force to back it up. If the Feds were to arrange a "Petraeus's March to the Bay" starting in San Bruno, the tanks might get somebody's attention. ;)
Newsom was about the only non-Leninist running last time.
From the article:
“Siffermann stressed that the city ships out juvenile offenders to their home countries only after all other rehabilitative efforts have failed, including probation, foster care and juvenile detention.
The strategy is appropriate, Siffermann said, because deporting young offenders would doom them from ever becoming productive residents of the United States.
“It might prevent them from obtaining citizenship,” he said, denying them a chance to “take a different course.”
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