By Eric Kurhi, San Jose Mercury News July 08–While San Francisco is taking heat because of its status as a “sanctuary city” that allowed the release of a serial deportee who has been charged with homicide, such noncompliance policies abound in the Bay Area and throughout the state. The overarching law of the land is […]
Immigration noncompliance policies far from exclusive to San Francisco
A look at release of immigrant charged in US pier killing
By AMY TAXIN and JANIE HAR, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The city of San Francisco has come under fire after it released Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant in the country illegally, despite a request by federal immigration authorities to keep him in custody so they could deport him for a sixth […]
As S.F. shooting suspect apologizes, factions square off over noncompliance policy
By Eric Kurhi and Matthew Artz, San Jose Mercury News July 07–As Mexican national and five-time deportee Francisco Sanchez somberly stammered an apology to the family of the woman he admitted shooting to death as she walked along a scenic San Francisco pier, factions on Monday squared off on the city’s policy of noncooperation with […]
Senators: Feds should have deported SFC man before killing
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are criticizing the release of an immigrant with a criminal record who allegedly went on to murder a woman in San Francisco last week. They said he should have been deported before the crime. Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who chairs the Senate’s homeland security committee, […]
Barletta cites shootings in argument against amnesty
By Standard-Speaker, Hazleton, Pa. July 07–Congressman Lou Barletta cited a 2006 shooting involving an illegal immigrant in his hometown of Hazleton when railing on proponents of amnesty after a man who was deported five times shot and killed a 32-year-old woman on a pier in San Francisco last week. Barletta referenced the death of Derek […]