To crush the Sanctuary Cities movement. Just how many other laws should the Federal Government let cities, or states, ignore?

It means that a person can report a crime, cooperate as a witness to a crime, seek medical attention, enroll their kid in school without being asked about legal status. Turning violent criminals loose is a something else altogether.

with my City being a Sanctuary City. I know far too many honest, hardworking, undocumented workers who live here with their US-born families to want them to live in fear of being deported. With that said, I do believe those with genuine criminal records (not just deportation charges) should be dealt with by law enforcement.

The idea of Sanctuary City came about because of raids that imprisoned hundreds of "illegals" in perhaps one
day. When their children got home from school, their parents were gone without a trace. The children were
left to fend for themselves, or be deported, still separated from their parents.

...to actually get around to passing comprehensive immigration reform.

The sanctuary city movement is a response to a broken immigration policy that has seen Obama deport hundreds of thousands of people for minor offenses, including 35,000 for simple pot possession. And they're not all undocumented. Those deported include people who are permanent residents, many of whom have spent their entire conscious lives in this country. Those deportations are tearing families apart, families that many, many times include US citizens.

I applaud San Francisco and the other sanctuary cities.

As for how many other laws the federal government lets states or cities ignore, I can point to at least one: marijuana.

this guy was sent to SF over a twenty year-old charge for possession of marijuana?! unfuckingbelievable.

If immigrants are afraid to talk to police for fear their relatives or they themselves will be deported for no other reason than their immigration status, then crime in communities gets worse, not better.

Piss on the "War on Drugs" too, another policy that increases crime.

its some f'ked law.

then tried to turn tail, he is solely responsible.

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has deflected blame in the release of a Mexican national now facing murder charges in the Pier 14 slaying by demanding to know why federal authorities returned him to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old marijuana charge in the first place.

The answer, it turns out, is that the Sheriff’s Department asked federal officials to do so.

Mirkarimi’s agency requested custody of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez as he was completing a 46-month stint in federal prison in March in San Bernardino County, according to a Sheriff’s Department letter obtained by The Chronicle. Lopez-Sanchez had been deported five times to Mexico and had been imprisoned for illegally re-entering the U.S.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141141090

His being moved around so often by high ranking various law enforcement agencies for really wild reasons on the very shady 'catch and release' programs, so to speak, suggest external machinations at work here. The whole back and forth to MX thing, the in and out of various federal prisons... smells like a CI being traded and bartered for...

I'd put a pile of money on it.

the title says that the sheriff requested they send him to S.F. - when the article states that he requested for him to be held so he could be picked-up

Mirkarimi was already a controversial figure. He was arrested on domestic violence charges right after he was elected, and eventually pled out. The Board of Supervisors nearly removed him from office. The only way he was able to weasel out of it is that the incident occurred before he had been officially sworn in.

The sad thing is, he's one of a handful of Green elected officials out there.