San Francisco’s über-left political cadre is united in noisy opposition to any sort of immigration enforcement coming out of Washington, even though the city already offers sanctuary to illegal aliens. So you have to wonder whether an expanded position of that policy is really necessary.

Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, on Friday announced a new multifaith delegation of Bay Area religious leaders to protest the proposed legislation, which, he said, “not only unfairly discriminates against many people in our community, but it criminalizes churches, mosques and temples for the good work they are doing.”
[Line drawn on immigration legislation, San Francisco Chronicle, 4/8/06]

Leland Yee is still remembered with snickers and rolled eyes by some local horticulturists for his objections to a campaign for restoring native plants to San Francisco parks, saying that it represented “xenophobia.”

“Plants and trees without the proper pre-Mayflower lineage are called ‘invasive exotics’ and are wrenched from the soil to die,” Yee wrote in a local newspaper editorial. “How many of us are ‘invasive exotics’ who have taken root in the San Francisco soil, have thrived and flourished here, and now contribute to the diversity of the wonderful mix that constitutes present-day San Francisco?”
[Plan to save plants too toxic for some, San Jose Mercury News, 11/17/02]

Anyway, the Sensenbrenner legislation was a golden opportunity for snooty San Franciscans to mouth off about their self-appointed superiority over the non-Marxist majority. The capital of the Left Coast clearly loves to poke Red State Americans in the eye with its anti-American values and does so every chance it gets.

Supervisor Geraldo Sandoval recently drove liberal Fox commentator Alan Colmes to near apoplexy with his assertion that the United States should not have a military. That statement of loony pacifism followed a rejection by the Supes for the battleship Iowa to be retired to a city berth.

(On the humorous side, South Park ridiculed San Francisco as the home of insufferable hybrid-driving eco-snobs in an episode called “Smug Alert.” The show ripped the city as a place where local latte sippers announce that “we’re a little more progressive and ahead of the curve here in San Francisco.”)

San Francisco’s economy is based on tourism, so you would think the city wouldn’t continually insult the people who pay the bills. But no.