San Francisco: Sanctuary City Gone Awry

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 7/16/8 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[SmithL]

San Francisco's political establishment has long prided itself on providing a haven for illegal immigrants. Mayor Gavin Newsom even launched a taxpayer-funded $83,000 "public awareness campaign" earlier this year assuring illegal immigrants that the "sanctuary city" by the bay was in their court.

And indeed it is. Under the city's 1989 voter-approved sanctuary ordinance, police officers and other city employees are prohibited from inquiring into immigration status. In addition, the city will not direct municipal funds or employees towards assisting federal immigration enforcement, unless such assistance is required by federal or state law or a warrant.

No doubt such protections warm the heart of the city's liberal leadership. But San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city is having unintended consequences.

The brutal and senseless murder last month of Tony Bologna and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, at the hands of Edwin Ramos, a native of El Salvador and known member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang, was a reminder that inviting illegal activity can turn deadly. The Bolognas were on their way back from a family picnic when they inadvertently blocked Ramos' car from making a left turn in the Excelsior district. When Bologna politely backed up to let the other car past, Ramos responded by opening fire and killing all three passengers. Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder, with the added penalty of street-gang involvement.

So far, much of the outcry surrounding the case has centered on San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris' policy of not seeking the death penalty, in this case, against the wishes of widow, Danielle Bologna.

[SmithL]

Picking and choosing which laws to obey and which laws to ignore is a San Francisco value.

[Conspiracy Guy]

It sure is.

[SmithL]

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[JimRed]

Let’s bus all our captured illegals to SF, since they love them so much!

[A_Former_Democrat]

And to Vermont also so we can see if the secessionists truly “embrace diversity.’

[murdoog]

FREE LAZAMATAZ

What happened to Lazamataz?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Banned May 30. Must have been bad this time looks like it is permanent.

[edzo4]

untill the time comes that we can get all federal funding cut for those cities that disobey the law I suggest that every nearby town and city bring every illegal they catch to these sanctuary cities and drop them off at city hall, give the liberals exactly what they want.

i’m sure once these sanctuary cities become third world shanty towns they will get it.

[kalee]

It seems he got in trouble quite a while ago and was either suspended or banned. There is a campaign about to get him back onboard and posting. ;) I asked a week or so ago.

[rocksblues]

Invite murderers into community. OK
Smoke in public. Not OK

[dynachrome]

Laz got 30 days. may or may not come back.

he is a regular at LP now.

[Travis McGee]

If only we had passed the Dream Act, the killer would have been in college!

Obama will fix this.

[Tzimisce]

Well it sounds like the city of San Francisco citizens need more sensitivity training so they can understand the oppression felt by these “undocumented” immigrants.

[AuntB]

"The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing." - Teddy Roosevelt

[snarks_when_bored]

The brutal and senseless murder last month of Tony Bologna and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, at the hands of Edwin Ramos, a native of El Salvador and known member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang, was a reminder that inviting illegal activity can turn deadly. The Bolognas were on their way back from a family picnic when they inadvertently blocked Ramos' car from making a left turn in the Excelsior district. When Bologna politely backed up to let the other car past, Ramos responded by opening fire and killing all three passengers. Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder, with the added penalty of street-gang involvement.

Mr. Bologna had no idea that by just happening to block Edwin Ramos from executing a left turn at the exact moment that Ramos wanted to execute it, Ramos would then execute him and his two sons. Ramos lacks the rationality of a rabid dog and ought to be treated as such.

[gubamyster]

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[Conspiracy Guy]

thanks for the heads up

[Uncle Hal]

The inmates running the insane asylum. When you coddle criminals, the consequences can be deadly.

[Ajnin]

That is an awesome quote.

[AuntB]

” The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.” - Teddy Roosevelt

Good to see you, Ajnin. That quote sent a chill down my spine the first time I read it. It’s happened several times in our history and it’s so dangerous to think it isn’t happening again.