Uh huh.
Posted on 06/23/2009 7:10:51 AM PDT by laotzu
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office on Monday defended allowing about a half dozen first-time drug offenders to clear their records by going through a job-training program, even after prosecutors learned they were deportable as undocumented immigrants.
The L.A. Times first reported Monday that illegal immigrants had been enrolled in the program and that Harris' office had let several graduate and go free even after learning of their status.
Harris was quoted in the Times as saying that enforcing federal immigration law was not the job of local authorities. The district attorney was explaining how her office handled the case of Alexander Izaguirre, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who had been enrolled in the Back on Track program in July when he allegedly robbed a woman of her purse in Pacific Heights, then got into an SUV that drove into the victim.
The woman, Amanda Kiefer, 30, suffered a fractured skull. She said in an interview Monday that she had gotten a good look at Izaguirre and the SUV driver.
"They were both laughing," Kiefer said.
In all, 113 people have successfully completed the program, with 99 failures, according to prosecutors' statistics.
Izaguirre was enrolled in the program after admitting to dealing drugs to an undercover officer in the Tenderloin in late 2007. He had two previous arrests, one for drugs and the other for purse snatching, records show. The charges were dropped.
Assistant District Attorney Sharon Woo, who oversees the Back on Track program, said Monday that prosecutors had assumed that offenders who sought to enroll were here legally because they had been screened by the Sheriff's Department.
Woo said that the "flaw" in the program had been fixed after Izaguirre's arrest and that the program now asks all those who apply whether they can legally work here.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Good news is, they are now going to ask all those who apply whether they can legally work here. Problem solved.
I don't ridicule California because they are morons, but because they are a danger to this nation.
I enjoy ridiculing them because they are morons.
Uh huh.
Good grief.
And this twit wants to run for Attorney General. Sure, honey, sure - and Gavin wants to be Governor. The two of you can do for California what you’ve done for San Francisco.
Good luck getting past the primaries.
Liberal loons running America!....
Big surprise. Our government(s) aren’t looking out for us, they’re after Latino votes.
We used to have laws in this country. If San Francisco will not enforce the law, they should get no help from the rest of us.
What’s really annoying is the leftist pretense that they’re being noble by allowing illegals to stay here.
Yes, bush went to war after 9/11, mean while illegals killed tens of thousands more and he tried to give them amnesty.
Why would California want to do to it what Kamela did for San FRan?
The DA that wouldn’t prosecute a gang banger out to earn his stripes for capital murder, after mowing a young police officer down with an AK47... oh and we mustn’tforget the MS-13 dude that mowed down 3 familymebers for turuning down a wrong street in SF. He’ll isn’t being prosecuted for the death penalty either, Thanks to kamela and her ‘brand’ of leadership... and those who support her.
DHS keeps telling us the Mexican drug war hasn’t spilled over our borders???
From NAFBPO today
Standoff in Brownsville over immigrants held
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D98VTPM00.html
[snip]Authorities across the border states are finding such cases where safe houses are converted from rest stops on immigrants’ trips north to kidnapping hideouts where immigrant smugglers try to extract more money from their clients’ families.
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