San Francisco is reaching for new depths of depravity, as Supervisor David Campos is seeking to expand the city’s illegal alien criminal protecting sanctuary law.

A San Francisco supervisor’s proposed legislation would make it more difficult for officials to hand over undocumented youths suspected of crimes to federal immigration authorities, a policy that, if approved, could have far-reaching impacts.

The proposed law would require that juvenile suspects be convicted of a felony before San Francisco officials contact federal immigration authorities–unless the suspect is charged as an adult.

Currently, immigration authorities are contacted at the time of a felony arrest–a change implemented last year by Mayor Gavin Newsom after the city’s sanctuary city policy made national headlines. Newsom’s change angered many in the city’s immigrant community. [...]

San Francisco’s sanctuary city ordinance, created in the late 1980s for refugees fleeing Central American civil wars, made headlines last year after The Chronicle reported that the city was shielding young felons from deportation. In one of the most high profile cases, Edwin Ramos, 22, who had been arrested for several felonies as a youth but never referred to immigration officials, was arrested and charged with the 2008 slayings of Tony Bologna and his two sons. [New sanctuary proposal on protecting youths, By Marisa Lagos and John Coté, San Francisco Chronicle,August 18, 2009 ]

Notably, the Supervisor himself was (or is) an illegal alien, as he helpfully specified on his official Supe website. So he is standing up for his tribe of foreign lawbreakers, not the residents of the city.

Here’s a reminder of the Bologna triple murder case, in which a previously arrested gangster was coddled by San Francisco and allowed to go free and kill.

Interestingly, a poll taken in San Francisco last year after it was revealed that the city had shielded Honduran crack dealers from justice showed the a large majority (79%) of residents wanted the lawbreakers turned over to federal authorities.

Official San Francisco is well known for pampering dangerous illegal alien criminals. Apparently we have not heard the last of the city’s TLC toward the bad guys, judging from the LA Times’ recent report of malfeasance by the District Attorney’s office: San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold, June 22, 2009.

DA Kamala Harris wants to be the top law enforcement official of California, and questions are being asked about her competence and temperment. She ran for city DA on an anti-death-penalty platform, to which she stuck even in a cop murder case. So the citizens of San Francisco were at least warned about what they were getting in that regard. However her support for the extreme version of sanctuary that provided social services for hardened drug-dealing gangsters was an eye-opener for many San Franciscans.

Even in the capital of the Left Coast, only the most extreme believed that releasing dangerous foreign criminals into the local community was a good idea. In fact, a poll taken after news appeared about the cushy treatment for Honduran crack dealers showed that 79 percent of those surveyed thought that the city should turn over convicted illegal immigrants for deportation.

Following is a snip from the LA Times article.

The assault on Amanda Kiefer at dusk in San Francisco’s posh Pacific Heights was extraordinary enough for its cruelty.

A stranger, later identified as Alexander Izaguirre, snatched her purse and hopped into an SUV, police say. The driver sped forward to run Kiefer down. Terrified, she leaped onto the hood and saw Izaguirre and the driver laughing. The driver slammed on the brakes, propelling Kiefer to the pavement. Her skull fractured. Blood oozed from her ear.

Only after the July 2008 attack did Kiefer learn of the crime’s political ramifications. Izaguirre, police told her, was an illegal immigrant who had pleaded guilty four months earlier to a drug felony for selling cocaine in the seedy Tenderloin area.

He had avoided prison when he was picked for a jobs program run by San Francisco Dist. Atty. Kamala Harris, now a candidate for California’s top law enforcement post. In effect, Harris’ office had been allowing Izaguirre and other illegal immigrants to stay out of prison by training them for jobs they cannot legally hold.

The program, Back on Track, is a centerpiece of Harris’ campaign for state attorney general. Until questioned by The Times about the Izaguirre case, Harris, a Democrat, had never publicly acknowledged that the program included illegal immigrants. In interviews last week, she and her office offered inconsistent explanations.

Izaguirre’s trial this fall for the Kiefer attack — his arrest forced him out of the program and into jail — will put Harris in the middle of the controversy over San Francisco’s lax policies toward illegal immigrants.

(See the San Francisco DA’s page about its do-gooder program Back on Track.)

In addition, it was reported recently that San Francisco Shielded 185 Juvenile Illegals from prosecution and deportation, and around 30 percent of those “juveniles” were actually adult offenders with fake ID that lied about their age as well as their nationality.

San Francisco values continue to rock and roll off the charts, so stay tuned!

Good news from the dark heart of multicultural socialism — San Francisco’s official policy of harboring illegal aliens is being investigated by a federal grand jury! Who would have believed it?

It seems like forever since the scandalous revelations about the city sheltering Honduran crack dealers began appearing, followed by the murders of Tony Bologna and his two sons by a previously arrested illegal alien gangster. But it’s actually been only a few months, which is not long for the legal system to begin action. We can only hope that at the end of the trail, justice will eventually reach the criminal protectors Mayor Gavin Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris: Federal probe into S.F. sanctuary city policy, (San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 4, 2008).

A federal grand jury is investigating whether San Francisco’s policy of offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants violates U.S. laws against harboring people who are in the country illegally, city officials say.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera said his office has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent employees who might be questioned or asked for documents. He and Mayor Gavin Newsom said they would cooperate with the investigation.

San Francisco, like about 80 other U.S. cities and five states, has a law prohibiting the use of its funds to help enforce federal immigration law or to question individuals about their immigration status. The San Francisco ordinance, originally prompted by arrivals of refugees from Central American wars of the 1980s, specifies that police can report jailed felons to federal immigration authorities.

The Chronicle reported earlier this year that San Francisco juvenile justice authorities, interpreting the sanctuary policy, had flown some illegal immigrant youths to their home countries after Juvenile Court judges found they had committed felonies. Other youths were sent to unlocked group homes in this country and escaped.

Below, Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, both strong supporters of sanctuary for illegal aliens (and gun confiscation).

Here’s another mug shot from San Francisco of one of its “juvenile” crack dealers — oh wait, he’s actually 25. What a surprise.

When San Francisco made clear its intention to coddle underage illegal aliens, the local dealers got their fake IDs made up for minors. This guy is an example.

When he was caught selling crack in San Francisco’s Tenderloin in April, the Honduran immigrant who called himself Javier Martinez first told police he was 18. Then he said he was 16.

Because he insisted he was underage, police were duty-bound to take him to Juvenile Hall, where he would be shielded from deportation under the city’s long-standing policy of not reporting juvenile offenders to federal immigration authorities. He was soon put up in a $7,000-a-month group home in Southern California at city taxpayer expense.

In short order, he became one of the eight offenders who walked away from unlocked homes in San Bernardino County, escapes that contributed to a national outcry over San Francisco’s policies and prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce that the city would no longer afford juveniles a refuge from deportation. Four of the offenders are now back in custody - and Martinez is one of them, arrested in San Francisco for allegedly dealing drugs.

Martinez now says he was 25 all along, and that his true name is Jose Mendoza Cerrato. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty in adult court to drug dealing and is expected to be transferred to immigration authorities for possible deportation as soon as next month.
[Honduran drug suspect gamed juvenile system, by Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2008]

San Francisco — always the leader in immigration anarchy!

In recent days it came to light that Mayor Gavin Newsom and his smug leftist cadre running city government have spent millions of dollars to protect illegal alien criminals from federal enforcement, in particular Honduran crack dealers claiming to be juveniles. Many residents of the sanctuary city by the Bay have become outraged at the events and regard the city’s behavior as a shocking scandal.

Really.

As ultra-liberal as San Francisco may seem at times, elites coddling foreign criminals is over the line for most folks in the city, as shown by the local CBS affiiate’s poll earlier this week: SF ‘Sanctuary’ Policy Questioned After Escape (Poll info is contained in July 1 video). Answering the question “Should San Francisco turn over convicted illegal immigrants for deportation?” 79 percent answered “Yes.”

The media love to misclassify immigration enforcement as a far-right issue, although there is nothing more mainstream than support for borders and sovereignty. Polls consistently show that Americans across the political spectrum want immigration to be a legally controlled endeavor — even in San Francisco!