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California: San Francisco retains sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants.

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Free Vulcan:
SAN FRANCISCO –  Despite national outrage after a Mexican man killed a woman along a waterfront pier, San Francisco officials upheld the city's strict sanctuary protections for people who are in the country illegally.

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday for a measure that clarifies when city workers, including police officers, can notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement of a person's immigration status. Generally, the defendant must be charged with a violent crime and is someone who has been convicted of a violent crime within the past seven years.

The measure, however, also grants San Francisco's sheriff leeway to contact immigration authorities in the limited cases of defendants charged with a felony if they have been convicted of other felonies in the past.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/25/san-francisco-retains-immigrant-sanctuary-protections.html

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