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Gang-linked San Fran sanctuary case charged with murder of a father and two sons (UPDATE: Video interview with widow added)

By see-dubya • July 22, 2008 01:02 AM

These stories of preventable violence by illegal aliens are increasingly horrifying, and yet I suspect many of us have almost grown numb to them. But the San Francisco Chronicle’s Jaxon Van Derbeken, who has done a great job uncovering San Fran’s illegal-alien-crack dealer shuttle service, has now linked one of the sanctuary policy’s underage wards to a particularly heinous crime:

The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned.

Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts of murder in the June 22 deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. They were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Tony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman’s car from completing a left turn down a narrow street, police say.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors say is a member of a violent street gang, was found guilty of two felonies as a juvenile – a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman – according to authorities familiar with his background.

This is what the feel-good Sanctimony City policies bring upon their law-abiding citizens–and on the rest of the country. San Francisco had two opportunities to deport a violent felon with (if you’ll read a little further in the article) ties to the MS-13 gang, and they didn’t do it. They can’t even plead incompetence–the sanctuary policy worked exactly as it was intended.

The City of San Francisco wanted to keep criminal illegal alien juveniles like Edwin Ramos in San Francisco–or, at least, somewhere inside the United States. They were willing to frustrate a federal law to do so. And a devastating, preventable triple murder occurred because of their policy.

I hope that warm, fuzzy, liberal feeling of sanctuary sanctimony was worth it to them.

P.S. Looks like ICE screwed this one up as well: when they finally did get the suspect’s name in March, after a query from the SF’s sheriff’s department on a traffic stop and a gun charge, ICE didn’t report back that he was “deportable”.

P.P.S. I am so glad I left California–although I seem to be in a sanctuary area nonetheless. Hey Gerry Connolly, is this the policy you want to run on for Congress?

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UPDATE AND BUMP, 7/22: Here’s a heart-rending video interview with Danielle Bologna, who lost her husband and two sons because of San Francisco’s policy in contravention of Federal law. At one point, choking back tears, Mrs. Bologna says:

If my family wasn’t safe, what makes you think yours will be?

There is nothing I can add to that.

(Thanks to Allah.)

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{Post by See-Dubya}

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#101

On July 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm, nuss said:

Thanks wise_man!!
#102

On July 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm, Bill Grant said:

Yes, thanks wise-man.
#103

On July 24th, 2008 at 6:48 pm, Jason L. said:

Mayor Gavin Newsome needs to be recalled. He is the most inept mayor in the USA, and when the wife and mother of the slain needed a word from him the most, he remained (and still remains) silent. so much for all that “positive” air coverage from years opast when he was the “courageous” and “strong” mayor of Frisco who initiated the legalizing of Gay Marriage in California. so much for his positive reviews and uplifting raves on his diversity: now three men are dead, and a wife and the surviving children must go on…..and not a word of condolence from Mayor Newsome. He should be impeached, fired, recalled, whatever, for his total ineptness in this case, and his past record of being Mayor of a major, U.S. City.

As far as wise_man’s words, personally, friend, I see no difference between McCain and Obama. McCain will do just as much harm to the UWSA as Obama would. This doesn’t mean that I do not plan to vote, but what it does men is that I cannot, with a good and clear conscience vote for Senator John McCain. Neither he nor Obama will get my vote, and if either of them is elected, guess what, wise_man: I’ll still come in here and complain, and do you know why? Because as a voting, tax-paying citizen of the United States of America, I am guaranteed that right, and more-so if I vote (if a person doesn’t vote but is able to and can, they have no legitimate right to complain). The only good thing about John McCain as a candidate for Preasident is that he is pro-life; in reality, all of this smack about McCain being a supporter of what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan is smoke and mirrors: Senator McCan has been one of President Bush’s most vocal critics and opponents in the GOP cncenring the War on Terror (and lets not forget that McCain was one of the gang of 14, and his total arrogance in the 2006-07 Shamnesty push). I can no more consciusly cast a vote for McCain as I could for Josef Stalin….
#104

On July 24th, 2008 at 9:45 pm, Rob said:

WOLVERINES! ! !