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CreativeDominant -> RE: Thank God for Sanctuary Cities (7/15/2015 9:01:58 AM)
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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted Tuesday that the administration goofed in releasing an illegal immigrant to sanctuary city San Francisco ahead of a shocking murder earlier this month, but said there’s little the government can do to pressure sanctuary communities to change their minds...
(Goofed? Really? How about "we fucked up big-time"?)
...But he declined to criticize sanctuary cities themselves, and told Congress not to try to pass laws forcing cooperation, saying it could conflict with the Constitution, and it won’t win over the hearts of reluctant communities...
(We wouldn't want to upset the liberal leaders of these cities)
“My hope is that jurisdictions like San Francisco — San Francisco County — will cooperate with our new program,” he told the House Judiciary Committee. “I’m making the rounds with a lot of jurisdictions. My deputy secretary and I and other leaders in DHS have been very, very active for the purpose of promoting public safety to get jurisdictions to cooperate with us on this.”
He said several dozen jurisdictions who had previously refused to cooperate have already signed up or signaled interest in working with the new Priority Enforcement Program.
Republicans doubted that asking nicely would work with the five cities and counties that have turned Mr. Johnson down already, and they wondered why he and President Obama didn’t want to get tougher on the recalcitrant ones...
(Again...they wouldn't want to upset the liberal leaders of these cities. And this administration's sympathies are clearly in line with 'sanctuary city' policies, despite Federal law)
Now, Steinle’s slaying — and the suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, deported five times before and out on the streets after San Francisco refused to hold him for pickup by immigration agents — has put attention on victims of illegal immigration.
Lopez-Sanchez had just completed a federal prison sentence for one of his many illegal entries into the U.S., and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had asked the Bureau of Prisons to hold him for them to come pick up.
Instead, the bureau shipped him to San Francisco, which wanted him on a decades-old drug warrant. But San Francisco canceled that charge and, despite another request from ICE that Lopez-Sanchez be held for pickup, released him per its sanctuary policy.
Mr. Johnson said his department and the Bureau of Prisons should be talking these issues out better, and said some sort of discretion is probably needed so the bureau would have prioritized the homeland security claim over San Francisco‘s...
(gee...ya think? Homeland being a priority over an old warrant in a known 'sanctuary city'?)
The Bureau of Prisons didn’t respond to messages seeking comment on how it handled the case.
(They're probably too busy...making sure prisoners go to the right place, you know?)
...Mr. Johnson said he hasn’t yet contacted Steinle’s family, and didn’t know if anyone else in the administration had. That drew criticism from Rep. Steve Chabot, an Ohio Republican who said administration officials managed to reach out to families of those involved in high-profile encounters with the police in recent months, and said it would be good to make similar overtures in this instance.
“Perhaps they need to do that. I would strongly recommend that,” he said.
(Why would they contact the family? She was a white girl (privileged), not shot by a cop (therefore, no police 'brutality' to swoop down on in righteous indignation), shot by one of those 'poor, misunderstood, undocumented citizens-to-be (a fave of this administration). There are no political points to be made here)
...Sanctuary cities have bedeviled the Obama administration for years.
Even as it sued Arizona, arguing it didn’t want a patchwork of immigration laws, the administration allowed cities and counties to refuse to cooperate.
(We don't want a patchwork of laws...unless it goes hand in hand with our agenda)
In 2012, John Morton, then-director of ICE, told Congress he was pushing within the administration to punish sanctuary cities, but signaled the Justice Department was blocking that...
(Eric Holder's DOJ...anyone surprised by that?)
...Mr. Johnson said they are approaching 31,000 beds being used on an average day — more than the 27,000 being held at the beginning of the year but still short of the 34,000 beds that Congress has mandated the department keep.
Even as it leaves beds unused, the department continues to release immigrants with serious criminal records who go on to commit more crimes.
More than 1,000 criminal aliens released into the community while awaiting deportation in 2014 were convicted of still more crimes after their release, including kidnapping, sexual assault against a child and vehicular homicide, according to statistics released Tuesday by Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte...
(But how can that be? We've been told they just want to live peacefully...that Trump was wrong to label some of them as rapists and killers)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/14/sanctuary-cities-beyond-federal-control-homeland-s/
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