Illegal Alien, Deported 5 Times, Murders San Francisco Woman

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"The left will never accept the real point that Donald Trump was trying to make about illegal immigration. They and almost everyone else are having too much fun lining up to take pot shots at The Donald, erasing his name and likeness from pop culture — disappearing him for his “transgression.”

"True, Trump stumbled over his statement like the rank amatuer he is. He was inartful, tongue tied, and almost incoherent in making a very valid point. But he did not smear all Mexicans, nor even all illegal aliens as his enemies are gleefully claiming.

"Trump’s point: because we don’t have control of our borders, tens of thousands of dangerous criminals sneak into this country where they rape and murder American citizens. These are crimes that don’t have to happen and wouldn’t happen if more attention was paid to border security.

"Worse yet, we release these felons back into the population where they are free to rape or kill again.

"Almost on cue to prove Trump’s point, an illegal alien, deported 5 times and convicted of 7 felonies, murdered a young, beautiful San Francisco woman yesterday while she was walking on a pier with her father.

"The amazing saga of Francisco Sanchez and how he easily slipped through the cracks to wind up on Pier 14 and inexplicably shot and killed 32 year old Kathryn Steinle should make your blood boil."

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/07/03/illegal-alien-deported-5-times-murders-san-francisco-woman/

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- The Daily Caller - http://dailycaller.com -



Illegal Alien With 7 Felonies And 5 Deportations Fatally Shot San Francisco Woman In Broad Daylight

Posted By Chuck Ross On 7:49 PM 07/03/2015 In | No Comments

 

An illegal alien who shot a woman in broad daylight in San Francisco on Wednesday had been deported five times but was released back onto the streets anyway, federal immigration officials are saying.

The alleged killer, 45-year-old Francisco Sanchez, shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she was walking with her father and a friend on San Francisco’s famous Pier 14.

Authorities say Sanchez fired a bullet that struck Steinle in the chest. She died two hours later. Police do not yet know the motive for the shooting.

Sanchez was recently in police custody but was allowed to go free rather than face his sixth deportation because San Francisco is a so-called “sanctuary city.” That means that city institutions do not enforce federal immigration laws.

 

Francisco Sanchez, 45. (San Francisco police)

Picked up for a drug charge, Sanchez was released by the San Francisco sheriff’s department on March 26.

In releasing Sanchez, who was deported most recently in 2009, local authorities ignored U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s request that a “detainer” be placed on him. That despite him having seven felonies on his record.

“The detainer was not honored,” ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said, according to USA Today.

“ICE places detainers on aliens arrested on criminal charges to ensure dangerous criminals are not released from prisons or jails into our communities,” she added.
 
 

It is unclear what rationale San Francisco authorities used to determine Sanchez’s priority level. In November, the Obama administration revamped its immigration enforcement policies by creating three different immigration enforcement priority levels.

The highest priority offenders include illegal aliens who pose a national security threat, are apprehended at the border, are in a street gang, or have been convicted of a felony.

The second-highest priority group includes aliens who have three or more misdemeanors on their record, a “significant misdemeanor,” or those who are apprehended after unlawfully entering or re-entering the U.S. The lowest priority group is for aliens who have been issued a final order for removal.

As USA Today notes, the California state assembly passed a law in 2013 that allows local law enforcement agencies discretion on when to fulfill ICE detainer requests.

Kamala Harris, the state’s attorney general, supports the liberal interpretation of immigration policy.

“When local law enforcement officials are seen as de facto immigration enforcers, it erodes the trust between our peace officers and the communities they serve,” Harris wrote last year. She is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer.

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In a just world, everyone involved in the release of this low life would be tried for murder in the same dock as him.

They can't have it both ways. Any normal citizen who aids in the commission of a felony may be charged with said felony. So why not authorities who do the same?

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Illegal Alien Killer Gives BS Explanation For Deadly San Francisco Shooting

 

Brian Anderson 
July 6, 2015

7-time felon and 5-time deportee Francisco Sanchez shot and killed 32-year old Kate Steinle on San Francisco’s Pier 14 last week after SF Sheriff’s refused an immigration hold and released him into the public. The nation, or at least the right side, is outraged at the sanctuary city policy that allowed this illegal alien to murder an American citizen. In an effort to make himself seem like less of a POS, Sanchez has concocted a highly implausible explanation for the shooting.

Sanchez initially told the police that he was shooting at sea lions and he accidentally hit Steinle. Now he’s changed that story to an even less believable one. ABC 7’s Cornell Barnard scored a jailhouse interview with the perpetual criminal.

First, Sanchez confessed to the shooting:


Barnard: “Did you shoot Kate Steinle, the lady who was down at Pier 14.”
Sanchez: “Yes.”
Barnard: “You did shoot her?”
Sanchez: “Mm hm,” he said with a nod.

Then he tries to explain why he shot the woman. It starts out with him saying that he took sleeping pills that he found in a dumpster. He claims that because of the drugs he doesn’t remember a thing about the shooting. However, it turns out he does remember the shooting.


Barnard: “Where did you get the gun?”
Sanchez: “In the ground. When the… when the… over there in the bench, um, um, I put my leg and I see the one T-shirt and then see over there something like that.”

He claims a gun was wrapped in that T-shirt and that it went off when he picked it up.

“Then suddenly I heard that boom boom, three times,” Sanchez said.

What a lucky day for this hardworking immigrant. First he finds sleeping pills and then he finds a gun. As hard as that is to believe, his description of the gun going off three times by itself is positively confounding. Guns don’t just go off; they fire when someone pulls the trigger. They definitely don’t go off three by themselves; that would require three trigger pulls. Maybe with his luck in finding things, he came across a fully automatic handgun that fires when picked up. Then again, maybe he’s full of sh*t.

 


San Francisco won’t do anything to help the feds deport dangerous criminals, but I bet this incident will have them passing a law to close the “t-shirt loophole” that allows felons to find guns wrapped in t-shirts.


He claims he kicked the gun into the San Francisco Bay, lit up a cigarette, and walked off, not knowing he shot someone until he was arrested by police hours later.

This part of his story is bunk as well. As reported by SF Gate:


Sanchez fled after the shooting, prompting an extensive search. Witnesses at the crowded pier took cell phone pictures of the assailant, which police forwarded to officers fanning out along the Embarcadero. About 20 minutes later, officers found Sanchez hiding in a cubbyhole in a pier near Townsend Street.

He didn’t light up a cigarette and calmly walk off, not knowing what he did. He knew he shot Steinle and fled to a hiding place. It wasn’t hours before he was arrested; it was minutes. The only thing that he said that wasn’t a lie is that he kicked the gun into the water. A police dive team was able to recover the weapon.

Here’s the part of the interview that will have Donald Trump saying, “I told you so.”


Barnard: “Why did you keep coming back to the U.S., why did you come back to San Francisco?”
Sanchez: “Because I was looking for jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping, or construction.”

Sanchez said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials.

What a shock. San Francisco provides a haven for criminals and it attracts criminals like a magnet. Who would have ever thought that?

Sanchez claims he is sorry for the killing, and to prove his point, says he wants the “highest punishment” and that he no longer wishes to live.

First Sanchez says he was shooting at sea lions and then it becomes the story of a magic self-firing gun. He doesn’t currently have a lawyer but I think it’s a certainty that the ACLU will end up representing him. He seems like their kind of client. With that inevitability, we can expect a third version of events that in which Sanchez’ civil rights were violated through frequent deportations forcing him to defend himself with a gun.

http://downtrend.com/71superb/illegal-alien-killer-gives-bs-explanation-for-deadly-san-francisco-shooting

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Shameless NBC Uses Murder by Illegal Immigrant to Bash GOP, Trump ‘Desperate to Win Latino Voters’
 
By Curtis Houck | July 6, 2015 | 9:48 PM EDT
 



Monday’s network evening newscasts offered continuing coverage on the July 1 murder of a San Francisco woman allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant, but it was NBC Nightly News that shamelessly used the occasion to blast “the new Todd Akin” in Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for having “seized upon” the story to promote his stance on illegal immigration as the GOP is “desperate to win Latino voters.”

Leading off the program, anchor Lester Holt ruled that Trump “quickly seized upon” the fact that the man who supposedly murdered 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle “is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico” and “has given new fuel to a particularly bitter debate going on in this country about illegal immigration.”



Holt also reminded viewers that the billionaire “has faced a blistering backlash over some recent comments he made about Mexican immigrants and crime, and now says the San Francisco shooting proves he is right.” Firing back, Holt asked if this case actually does prove Trump right and then turned to national correspondent Peter Alexander with “the emotion and the facts.”

After a brief reference to Steinle’s murder and the reaction by her family members, Alexander reported that “[t]he shooting has ignited criticism of San Francisco's policy as a so-called sanctuary city that gives some protection to undocumented immigrants by barring authorities from asking about their immigration status.”

Moving to Trump, Alexander emphasized that the 2016 presidential candidate “seiz[ed] the divisive issue of undocumented immigrants again today” as he released a new statement blasting the Mexican government after “tweet[ing] his heartfelt condolences to the Steinle family.”

Alexander continued piling on Trump and the GOP as he argued that “Trump's words [are] driving a wedge in a crowded Republican field desperate to win Latino voters.”

The NBC News national correspondent then cited “several recent studies” as proving that “an increase in immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, has resulted in lower, not higher crime rates.”

While Alexander can tout the claims of these unnamed studies, a definitive conclusion can’t be drawn since, as conservative author Ann Coulter astutely pointed out, the federal government has yet to track how many crimes are committed annually by these immigrants.

According to one set of data released in January by Republican Senator Charles Grassley (Iowa), illegal immigrants who were released in 2013 were thought to have combined for almost 88,000 convictions.

The focus on Trump and the GOP instead of the murder continued as Holt brought on Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd to declare that, in reference to 2012 Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin, some “Republicans who are worried that Donald Trump is going to be the new Todd Akin.” From there, Todd explained the comparison:


Todd Akin was that Senate candidate in 2012 who said “legitimate rape” and sorta questioned what rape really was. Well, that Trump's name becomes synonymous for Democrats a year from now to be able to say Republican Party, they don't like Hispanics. All we have to do is point to Donald Trump. So, but the reason more aren't speaking out, they're afraid of resting into tangled – a mud pit with Donald Trump because Trump has no shame.

In contrast to NBC, the CBS Evening News chose to focus on the murder of Steinle, the city’s policy of being a “sanctuary city,” and the relative silence on the party of local government officials concerning on the murder and if the city’s policy could have prevented her murder.

Avoiding any mention of Trump or the GOP, anchor Scott Pelley explained that “San Francisco’s city government is fire tonight after the murder of a woman last week allegedly by an illegal immigrant” who “was on the streets after city officials disregarded a request from immigration authorities to lock him up.”

Correspondent John Blackstone reported that the murder “is raising difficult questions for San Francisco, which has a sanctuary program to protect undocumented immigrants.” Without providing a party identification (i.e. that they’re Democrats), Blackstone noted that “San Francisco's elected officials have been avoiding speaking about sanctuary.”

Unlike Alexander, Blackstone explained that the city’s decision to release alleged murder Francisco Sanchez is far from isolated as “n the last 18 months, more than 10,000 undocumented immigrants have been released from custody in California without immigration officials being notified.”

As for ABC’s World News Tonight, that program offered a bare-bones segment on the crime itself and how San Francisco is a “sanctuary city” for illegals.

 


 

The relevant portions of the transcript from July 6's NBC Nightly News can be found below.


NBC Nightly News
 July 6, 2015
 7:01 p.m. Eastern

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE CAPTION: Flashpoint]

LESTER HOLT: The random killing of a young woman along San Francisco's picturesque embarcadero last week has given new fuel to a particularly bitter debate going on in this country about illegal immigration. The man charged in her shooting is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, a fact quickly seized upon by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Trump has faced a blistering backlash over some recent comments he made about Mexican immigrants and crime, and now says the San Francisco shooting proves he is right, but does it? Tonight, national correspondent Peter Alexander on the emotion and the facts.

PETER ALEXANDER: Kate Steinle’s random death as she was walking with her father on San Francisco's famed embarcadero last week first stunned a family....Now, it's adding fuel to a national debate. Francisco Sanchez, the convicted felon who federal officials say had been deported five times to Mexico, today in a jailhouse interview, said he agreed with police that he shot and killed the 32-year-old and doesn't remember everything. “The only thing I can tell you is that I claim responsibility,” he said. The shooting has ignited criticism of San Francisco's policy as a so-called sanctuary city that gives some protection to undocumented immigrants by barring authorities from asking about their immigration status. After being picked up for a drug warrant last March, the Department of Homeland Security says Sanchez should have been turned over to federal immigration officials. Instead, he was set free. Seizing the divisive issue of undocumented immigrants again today, Donald Trump, who earlier tweeted his heartfelt condolences to the Steinle family. Trump's words driving a wedge in a crowded Republican field desperate to win Latino voters. In a newly released statement he said: “The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States.” The billionaire is still defending these inflammatory remarks from last month about undocumented Mexican immigrants.

DONALD TRUMP [on 06/16/15]: They're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people.

ALEXANDER: The fact is, according to several recent studies, an increase in immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, has resulted in lower, not higher crime rates. It's fueling wall-to-wall coverage on Spanish TV and fracturing the party.

(....)

MEET THE PRESS MODERATOR CHUCK TODD: Well, look, there's no split on the fact that they all think Trump's doing damage. The split is what to do about it now and how serious the damage is. You have a big chunk of the party leaders that I’ve talked to, associated with both presidentials and non-presidentials, saying who say, you know what, this is going to burn itself out. This is like Herman Cain and 9-9-9 from four years go. A year from now, we won't be talking about it. There are other Republicans who are worried that Donald Trump is going to be the new Todd Akin. Todd Akin was that Senate candidate in 2012 who said “legitimate rape” and sorta questioned what rape really was. Well, that Trump's name becomes synonymous for Democrats a year from now to be able to say Republican Party, they don't like Hispanics. All we have to do is point to Donald Trump. So, but the reason more aren't speaking out, they're afraid of resting into tangled – a mud pit with Donald Trump because Trump has no shame. He'll say whatever is necessary to beat you back and it could end up embarrassing the candidate that attacks him.



Source URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2015/07/06/shameless-nbc-uses-murder-illegal-alien-bash-gop-trump-desperate-win

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For years I raised the issue with my own family of the disingenuous left wing media pretending to be impartial.

To that end I cancelled our satellite TV. When my three children moved out to go to college, two never got a TV. I haven't had a television for years and I don't have any inclination to change that.

Life is good without that infernal chatterbox spewing leftist drivel at me.

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SF sheriff defends prior release of suspect in pier slaying

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Associated Press
By JANIE HAR and AMY TAXIN
2 hours ago
       
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has defended his office's decision to release a Mexican man who was in the U.S. illegally and who is now suspected in the killing of a woman at a sightseeing pier.
 
Mirkarimi said that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency should earlier have issued an arrest warrant for Francisco Sanchez.

"ICE knew that he had been deported five times," Mirkarimi said. "You would have thought he met a threshold that he required a court order or a warrant. They did not do that."

Prosecutors on Monday charged Sanchez with murder in the death of Kathryn Steinle, who was shot and killed last Wednesday as she and her father took a walk on the popular Pier 14.

Steinle's killing has brought criticism down on this liberal city because Sanchez had been deported repeatedly and was out on the streets after San Francisco officials disregarded a request from immigration authorities to keep him locked up.

San Francisco is one of dozens of cities and counties across the country that do not fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The city goes so far as to promote itself as a "sanctuary" for people in the country illegally.
 

In a jailhouse interview with a TV station, Sanchez, a 45-year-old repeat drug offender, appeared to confirm that he came to the city because of its status as a sanctuary.

The case has prompted a flurry of criticism from ICE officials, politicians and commenters on social media, all of whom portrayed the slaying as a preventable tragedy.

"Most of the blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of the San Francisco sheriff, because his department had custody of him and made the choice to let him go without notifying ICE," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, which wants tougher immigration enforcement.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, blamed sanctuary practices and the Obama administration, saying: "The tragic murder of Kate Steinle once again underscores the need to end these reckless policies."

Mayor Ed Lee issued a statement saying city policy was never intended to protect "repeat, serious and violent felons." He asked for federal and local agencies to review what happened.
 

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney who is running for U.S. Senate, cautioned that when it comes to immigration, "our policy should not be informed by our collective outrage about one man's conduct."

Many other San Francisco politicians stayed quiet as mourners held a vigil at Pier 14 on the downtown waterfront, where the 32-year-old Steinle was gunned down, seemingly at random. She had recently moved to San Francisco.

While many cities have scaled back cooperation with ICE, few have gone as far as San Francisco.

For more than two decades, San Francisco has been considered a sanctuary for people in the U.S. illegally.

The city's sanctuary law prohibits city employees from helping federal authorities with immigration investigations or arrests unless required by law or warrant. That said, the ordinance does not prohibit local law enforcement from informing ICE that they've arrested someone in the country illegally for a felony offense or who has prior felony convictions.
 

From jail, Sanchez told a KGO-TV reporter in a mix of Spanish and English that he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt while sitting on a bench at the pier.

"So I picked it up and ... it started to fire on its own," Sanchez said, adding that he heard three shots go off.

Asked if he came to San Francisco because of its sanctuary status, he said yes.

"I only want to say that if the court wants to find me guilty, I wouldn't get mad," Sanchez said during the interview, in which he appeared confused and spoke incoherently at times.

https://news.yahoo.com/sf-sheriff-defends-prior-release-suspect-pier-slaying-073221388.html

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defending the indefencible

[andy58-in-nh]

For years I raised the issue with my own family of the disingenuous left wing media pretending to be impartial.

To that end I cancelled our satellite TV. When my three children moved out to go to college, two never got a TV. I haven't had a television for years and I don't have any inclination to change that.

Life is good without that infernal chatterbox spewing leftist drivel at me.

Rather than cutting the cable, we simply do not watch any broadcast news programs any more. Not even FOX, which tends to sensationalize the trivial (even as others trivialize the sensational). We watch only a couple of regularly-scheduled entertainment programs. Otherwise, it's just movies, sports, and ROKU.

[Bigun]

Rather than cutting the cable, we simply do not watch any broadcast news programs any more. Not even FOX, which tends to sensationalize the trivial (even as others trivialize the sensational). We watch only a couple of regularly-scheduled entertainment programs. Otherwise, it's just movies, sports, and ROKU.

I'm told that television advertising time is valued by audience share and since NBC has no audience the following question arises: Who or what is propping them up?

[andy58-in-nh]

I'm told that television advertising time is valued by audience share and since NBC has no audience the following question arises: Who or what is propping them up?

NBC Universal is owned by Comcast - a money machine.

[ArneFufkin]

NBC Universal is owned by Comcast - a money machine.

I'm told that television advertising time is valued by audience share and since NBC has no audience the following question arises: Who or what is propping them up?

Additionally, it's a money machine that is heavily regulated by a lawless bureaucratic regime (they were subject to Obama's DOJ and FCC when pursuing the Time Warner merger) and whose CEO is a golfing buddy of the jug-eared community organizing despot:

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CBS, NBC Move on from Murder in SF by Illegal Immigrant
 
By Curtis Houck | July 8, 2015 | 12:11 AM EDT
 
 

After providing relatively substantial coverage on the July 1 murder of a San Francisco woman allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant, CBS and NBC chose to provide their viewers on Tuesday night with other stories and ignored the latest developments and continued questions regarding the disturbing murder.

While they failed to refer to the alleged murderer an illegal immigrant, ABC’s World News Tonight continued to stay on this story with a full report from correspondent Tom Llamas. Anchor David Muir teased at the top of the program that there were “new developments tonight in the case” with “[t]he anger tonight being heard clear across the country.”



Minutes later, Muir led into the segment from Llamas by again placing emphasis on the “growing anger tonight” surrounding 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle’s murder “by an undocumented immigrant” that has her family “and many others now asking: how was the suspect deported five times allowed to be here in the first place?”

Llamas started off his report by explaining that: “Tonight, Francisco Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant, facing a judge for the first time pleading not guilty, charged with killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she strolled a San Francisco pier with her family.”

While Llamas neglected to label San Francisco and other U.S. cities as “sanctuary cities,” he essentially provided a definition for them in explaining how they refuse to accommodate requests from the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) known as detainers:


 A detainer allows federal authorities time to assume custody, but according to ICE, there are more than 300 jurisdictions in the U.S. that do not honor detainers, including San Francisco, Cook County, Illinois, and Philadelphia. In San Francisco, the police union is blasting the policy, blaming it for Steinle's death.

Hours earlier, all three networks covered it on their Tuesday morning newscasts, but chose to make it partially a political story in terms of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about the murder and the broader issue of illegal immigration. On Monday night, it was only NBC that elected to bring politics into the fray and did so with a heavier emphasis on Trump than the murder of Steinle.

Later Tuesday night, it was reported by ABC, CNN, and others that the gun that Sanchez was said to have used belonged to a federal agent. With that creating another series of questions that need to be answered regarding this horrific crime, the question is: Will the networks continue to cover this story going forward?

 


 

The relevant portions of the transcript from ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir on July 7 can be found below.


ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir
 July 7, 2015
 6:30 p.m. Eastern [TEASE]

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE CAPTION: Growing Anger]
 
DAVID MUIR: Also, new developments tonight in the case of the young woman, the daughter, taking a stroll on a pier and then allegedly shot and killed by an undocumented immigrant. The anger tonight being heard clear across the country.

(....)

6:33 p.m. Eastern

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE CAPTION: Shooting Outrage]

MUIR: There is growing anger tonight in the case of a young woman, a daughter, strolling on the pier in San Francisco with her father when she was allegedly shot and killed by an undocumented immigrant. The family of the young woman and many others now asking: How was the suspect deported five times allowed to be here in the first place? ABC's Tom Llamas tonight with the angry words from San Francisco to Washington tonight.

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Shooting Outrage; Why Was Suspect on the Streets?]

TOM LLAMAS: Tonight Francisco Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant, facing a judge for the first time pleading not guilty, charged with killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she strolled a San Francisco pier with her family.

(....)

LLAMAS: Senators grilling a top ICE official on Capitol Hill today.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR RON JOHNSON (Wisc.): He was released into general society to commit a murder. Does that make sense to you? Why isn't ICE right there at the prison door, escorting that person back to the country of origin?

ICE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PHILIP MILLER: In that particular case, our detainer was not honored.

LLAMAS: A detainer allows federal authorities time to assume custody, but according to ICE, there are more than 300 jurisdictions in the U.S. that do not honor detainers, including San Francisco, Cook County, Illinois, and Philadelphia. In San Francisco, the police union is blasting the policy, blaming it for Steinle's death.

SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT MARTIN HALLORAN: If that individual remained in Mexico after he had been deported five separate times, yes, Ms. Steinle would be alive today.

MUIR: So many people upset about this case. Tom with us now and the question is: Did the feds – did ICE notify the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department about this guy?

LLAMAS: David, federal immigration authorities tell us they specifically notified them in writing to let them know when Sanchez was going to be released, but San Francisco sheriff says what’s required by law is a court order or a warrant and that’s what ICE gave them.

 

Source URL: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2015/07/08/cbs-nbc-move-murder-sf-illegal-immigrant

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Gun Used in San Francisco Killing Belonged to Federal Agent
 
 
 

 Tuesday, 07 Jul 2015 09:48 PM


 
The gun used in the seemingly random slaying of a woman on a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said Tuesday. 
The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity, said a police check of the weapon's serial number shows it belonged to a federal agent. The official declined to elaborate further.

Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in last week's shooting. Sanchez told two television stations he found the gun wrapped in a shirt on the pier.

Authorities say Sanchez is in the United States illegally and has been deported five times.

San Francisco officials released the Mexican national from jail in April, ignoring an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to detain him so deportation proceedings could begin.


Leading Democrats — including San Francisco's former mayor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein — have joined mounting criticism of the city's policy of refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials when they request help in detaining a suspect thought to be in the country illegally.

Sanchez has served more than 17 years in prison for entering the country illegally and also has four felony drug convictions.

Criticism of San Francisco's sanctuary city policy was expected from top Republicans such as Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson. But the policy is also drawing unexpected fire from Democrats, including both U.S. senators from California.

In addition, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told CNN that San Francisco was wrong to ignore the ICE detainer request and release Sanchez from custody after local prosecutors dropped marijuana possession charges in April.

"The city made a mistake, not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported," Clinton said. "So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on."

Feinstein called on San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to start cooperating with federal immigration officials who want to deport felons such as Sanchez who are in the country illegally. Feinstein served as San Francisco mayor from 1978 to 1988.

"I strongly believe that an undocumented individual, convicted of multiple felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released," Feinstein said. "We should focus on deporting convicted criminals, not setting them loose on our streets."
 

The San Francisco mayor's office said it has reached out to Department of Homeland Security officials to determine if there's a way to cooperate with federal immigration officials while still maintaining the sanctuary policy.

"Mayor Lee shares the senator's concerns surrounding the nature of Mr. Sanchez's transfer to San Francisco and release," said Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for the mayor. "As the mayor has stated, we need to gather all of the facts as we develop potential solutions."

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, also from Northern California, said she asked Gov. Jerry Brown if state law was followed in the release of Sanchez.

"For decades, I have supported deporting violent criminals, and I have always believed that sanctuary should not be given to felons," Boxer said.

San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has defended the release of Sanchez from jail and the city's law requiring it to ignore ICE detainer requests. The sheriff said ICE could have obtained a warrant or court order to keep Sanchez in custody.

"ICE knew where he was," Mirkarimi said Monday. He said he will continue to ignore ICE detainer requests and that federal officials can easily obtain court orders to keep deportation suspects in custody.

State and federal Republicans, meanwhile, said they would look into the matter.

Johnson, who chairs the Senate's homeland security committee, criticized federal officials and demanded to know why Sanchez was not deported.

"Does that make any sense to you?" Johnson, R-Wis., demanded to know at a hearing. "Because I'll tell you it doesn't make any sense to the American public."

Republican state Sen. Jeff Stone said he would introduce legislation in Sacramento to require cities to comply with ICE detainer requests.

At Sanchez's arraignment Tuesday, his public defender, Matt Gonzalez, said the shooting appeared to be an accident.
 

In jailhouse interviews with two television stations, Sanchez said he found a gun wrapped in a shirt on the pier and it went off in his hands.

"This was an act of random violence, shooting an innocent victim in the back" prosecutor Dianna Garcia told the judge, arguing against releasing Sanchez on bail.

The judge set bail at $5 million, which Gonzalez said will keep Sanchez jailed pending trial.

A downcast Sanchez spent most of the hearing with his head bowed, appearing to fight back tear while the judge explained the charged to him. Sanchez was aided by a Spanish-language interpreter and entered his plea in Spanish.

Outside court, his attorney said Sanchez has a second-grade education and a non-violent criminal record of low-level drug arrests and immigration violations.

He could face life in prison if convicted.


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San Francisco Police Union Lashes Out Against Sanctuary City Policy, Takes Aim at Politicians, Public Defender, Sheriff


By  Lisa Fernandez
 


Authorities say Kathryn Steinle was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound to her upper torso near the Embarcadero and Mission Street in the city's South Beach neighborhood, Wednesday, July 1, 2015.

Updated at 5:03 PM PDT on Tuesday, Jul 7, 2015


The San Francisco police union jumped into the national debate on immigration stemming from a random shooting that killed a 32-year-old woman walking along the pier by pointing fingers at the county’s liberal-leaning public defender and sheriff for their stance on sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.

In a Monday post, the San Francisco Police Officers Association took aim at San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi and San Francisco County Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, along with other unnamed local politicians, who by city and county law, don’t deport immigrants unless they have active warrants out for their arrests.

Adachi released a statement Monday expressing concern about what he called "POA rhetoric."

"The Police Officers Association must have forgotten that the city's current sanctuary policy was fully supported by the chief of police, the district attorney, the mayor, and all 11 members of the board of supervisors when it passed," Adachi said, adding that the union's post could harm the efforts to rebuild community trust between police and the immigrant community.

The city and county of San Francisco voted to become a sanctuary city in 2013.

In the case of Francisco Sanchez, charged with the July 1 murder of Kate Steinle along Pier 14, the jail, run by Mirkarimi, let Sanchez go without sending him back to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency despite a “detainer” request to do so. Sanchez is an undocumented immigrant, who has been deported from the United States five times, records show.

"Bottom line is a young innocent woman has been murdered in cold blood, in front of her father, by a 5 time deported illegal alien drug dealer," the union's Facebook post read. "He is an ILLEGAL ALIEN not an undocumented immigrant and if he was where he belonged (Mexico) this innocent victim would still be alive.”

Many of the comments on the post supported the union. "PC crap is out of control," Chris Tallerico wrote.

Others took a more nuanced view. Casey Grim wrote: "Terribly sad, but the truth is it would have happened in Mexico if he had been in Mexico. A pointless murder that isn't on our soil isn't any less terrible. Many illegal immigrants are farmers looking to make money for their families back home, often they travel back home after they've saved a decent amount. This tragedy is horrific, and heart wrenching, but we shouldn't blame illegal immigrants."

For his part, Mirkarimi has defended his position on not complying with ICE detainers, and has said that the immigration agency could have put a court order on Sanchez if the agency wanted him so badly. He said on Tuesday that his officers used to call ICE on a case-by-case basis, but he told them not to in March, to comply with city and county policy.

The union’s post also made reference to the “tragic death of Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Mathew, 16, in 2008 by a previously deported ILLEGAL ALIEN.”

In that case, police believed that two suspects mistook one of the Bologna sons for a rival gang member. The triple-murder case brought national attention to San Francisco in 2008 because of the city's sanctuary policy, which shielded undocumented juveniles suspected of crimes from being reported to federal immigration officials.

One of the suspects, Edwin Ramos, 25, who was later convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, moved to the United States as a teen and remained in the country on an expired visa from El Salvador, was never reported to federal authorities despite multiple contacts with police as a juvenile.

The police union equated the same attitude toward sanctuary cities with the “tragic death of Kate Steinle. If this city and some of its elected official continue with this failed policy then it will happen again.”

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Police-Union-Lashes-Out-About-Sanctuary-City-Policy-Takes-Aim-at-Jeff-Adachi-and-Ross-Mirkarimi-312207431.html

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Well, then. I guess white lives don't matter. Excuse me, white "citizens" lives don't matter.