http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/debunking-myth-sanctuary-cities Everyone has heard various San Francisco officials all parrot the myth of safety in the sanctuary city. If illegals know they are in a city where they will not be arrested for being there illegally, the meme goes, then they are more likely to cooperate with police. The fact however is, as we've just seen with the murder of Kathryn Steinle, sanctuary policy forbids local police forces from identifying and reporting dangerous felons to federal officials for deportation. Far from making the community safer, it actually puts people at risk because as we saw with the murder of three members of San Francisco's Bologna family in 2008, a dangerous member of the MS-13 gang was shielded by SF cops from deportation under their sanctuary policy and three dead people might likely be alive today if San Francisco's police department didn't put the interests of killers ahead of innocent ordinary citizens. Had the SF sheriff's department turned Francisco Sanchez over to ICE (as they requested) then Kathryn Steinle would also be alive today. How is San Francisco safer as a sanctuary city? Sanctuary policy is a lie and a sham and all decent people should condemn the many cities (300 plus nationwide according to ICE) that are complicit in breaking the law. It's a great metaphor for life under the Obama regime where only some laws are meant to be obeyed and it's up to Obama to decide what is legal and not.
What baloney! If the police are tracking a criminal, they are not going to hesitate to track or arrest an illegal who could be doing dangerous crimes, and because the illegals around are encouraged to report and assist getting felons because they are not going to automatically arrested for illegal immigration! And it remains that for every ONE murder like Kathryn Steinle killed by an illegal, there are 3 MORE that are killed by citizens or legal immigrants at the same time!
Uh......you just made the OPs point assuming your 4/1 ration is correct. Illegals make up 7.5% of California's population. If they are committing 1 out of 4 murders that means they are committing a disproportionate amount of them. Check you math.
Really? That's your pathetic rationale for defending illegal immigrants? Because it's only 1 out of 4? Wow. Just wow.
What baloney indeed! You missed the whole point which isn't surprising given the propaganda from the left. Even if (IF) the police are trusted and assisted in finding and arresting a criminal in their midst that criminal will never, ever be turned over to federal authorities for deportation (as we saw with Francisco Sanchez, who the SF sheriff's office just refused to hold over for ICE to pick up...and we all know what happened then). An illegal arrested for a relatively minor offense, but who may have a violent drug fueled past, will stay put in sanctuary cities putting so many others at risk, because law enforcement will see to it deportation never happens. Maybe the illegals that make it to a city like San Francisco are going to feel all safe and pleased that the police aren't bothering with them but of course that applies to guys like Sanchez and Edwin Ramos too. 121 times under the Obama administration (that supports sanctuary cities) people have died because the police turned a blind eye to illegals and have refused to cooperate with federal authorities when deportation is in order (not that our dysfunctional border will keep them out for long.
Why don't you explain in your weak pathetic liberal way why Americans should obey the law when our government doesn't obey it?
It doesn't matter how many citizens kill citizens. EVERY single illegal who is here and kills someone, is because govt officials are cowards and too PC. it should never happen if our govt was actually protecting us. No illegal should ever kill anyone, because illegals shouldn't exist. So you're justifying murder. /golf clap Seriously, its like saying, well the banks were going to be robbed ANYWAY, so I might as well do it. SOMEONE is going to cheat on the SATs, so heck, I might as well do it. That's how CRIMINALS think you understand.
