San Francisco values: Another illegal alien sanctuary travesty
Nancy Pelosi had no comment on this latest illegal alien sanctuary travesty. Keep burying your heads in the hand, San Francisco:
An immigrant suspected of being in the United States illegally - freed after being shielded from possible deportation by San Francisco officials despite committing two gang-related assaults as a juvenile - faces charges that he tried to stab a man to death last year in San Mateo County, authorities say.
The case of Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun, now 19, a native of Mexico, is the second in which a youthful offender protected from deportation in San Francisco has later been arrested for a violent crime as an adult.
The San Mateo County stabbing was especially vicious, authorities said - a top prosecutor said the victim had been “gutted, like you gut a pig.”
Uc-Cahun’s history of youth offenses in the city was similar to that of Edwin Ramos, a 21-year-old Salvadoran native facing triple-murder charges in connection with the slayings in June of a San Francisco man and two of his sons on an Excelsior district street.
“How many of these people are there who were the beneficiaries of this process?” asked Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney for Northern California, who has been critical of the city’s practice of shielding immigrants from deportation.
“This is what happens when the best intentions are misapplied,” Russoniello said. “If there was any justification for this program, cases like this certainly undermine that expectation.”
Both Uc-Cahun and Ramos were in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system at least twice during Mayor Gavin Newsom’s time in office, Ramos for an assault and an attempted robbery he committed when he was 17, Uc-Cahun in connection with assaults and other crimes for which he was arrested in 2006.
Juvenile justice officials protected both Ramos and Uc-Cahun from federal authorities under their interpretation of San Francisco’s sanctuary law, which bars the city from cooperating in U.S. efforts to hunt down illegal immigrants.
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So sad…When will these crazy libs ever learn? How many more people have to die? HOW can they even defend their policies??
Maybe we can work with this guy because, you know, inside every bad felon is a good felon trying to come out.
San Francisco will tolerate anything, and in the end “anything” is chaos and anarchy.
Sad. What’s worse is that even this won’t change anything. We’ll hear more crying from the left that they need more tax money to help these people and that we need to be more tolerant and understanding. They’ll make any excuse in the book rather than admit one of their policies is a complete failure.
Do we even had a federal government any more? Time to block all federal money to this joke of a city.
Love to see it happen to all sanctuary cities. But with Nancy & Friends running things, not gonna happen (especially not to San Francisco).
From the point of view of the liberal establishment, no matter how horrible and disgusting the crimes of these offenders, at least we can all be certain that they will never, ever vote against the Democrat Party. That is the enshrined moral principle that the lives of the powerless (i.e. standard issue American citizens) in San Francisco and elsewhere are sacrificed daily (possibly hourly).
I think evil definitely exists.
And we need to confront evil.
But I think we need to be really, really humble when we confront evil.
You see, perhaps Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun isn’t the evil person here. Perhaps we are. Uh, um, let’s try to see both sides here. Uh, uhhhh, we’ve often done evil, thinking we were doing good. Wait, disregard that last statement - it has some irony to it, you know? Uh, um, as if when we were harboring illeg- uh, undocumented people, and we thought we were doing good, perhaps it was evil.
But I don’t want to say that, it will tick off my liberal base. Uh, did I just say that out loud? Rats! I mean, I just think this whole thing is above my pay grade… and probably, uh, Bush and McCain’s fault.
I am by no means a legal scholar, but I wonder why Mr. Russoniello, as a U. S. Attorney, can’t bring charges against the derelict San Francisco city officials who are ultimately responsible for this atrocity.
At the very least, I think it may be time for San Mateo County, as well as other surrounding areas which are forced to suffer because of San Francisco’s appalling lack of responsible behavior, to file suit against the city of San Francisco in federal court. It’s also time to cut off ALL federal funding to SF.
Need to put Gavin Newsom is the cell with him. Why does that mayor seem to value illegals more than he does law-abiding citizens?
This is just evolution in action. If each illegal immigrant can murder three San Franciscoans, how many illegal alien murderers do they need to protect before all our problems with San Francisco are solved? …or would it be better if the illegals were selective - you know, we would need fewer of them before the problem is solved.
Wrong, this is not the best intentions. This is the willful disregard for the law and flagrant negligence to protect the public good, all in the name of harboring criminals.
Bingo b-cat.
Remember “Send me your huddled masses?” Well with SF it is “Send me you street thugs and gang bangers.” Wasn’t SF known for people getting “Shanghaid”. I think they are just continuing the legacy.
Well if you create the expectation that laws will be ignored, what do you expect? DDDDUUUUHHH
b-cat is on it like it was catnip.
How many of these stories can we hear every day? Isnt the number about 24 or 25? Illegal is evidently a word that the San Francisco elite don’t understand. It is a city overrun with liberal sociologists.
Can we at least give San Francisco back to Mexico?
Agree, any city which refuses to follow the law, should not receive federal funding.
Unfortunately, we are lacking leadership on this issue.
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The basis for all laws are so those who break it face the consequences. Sadly, in this case it was the city acting as an accomplice to an assault and an innocent victim’s life was forever changed. You cannot protect those who break the law, and decide you aren’t going to protect those who follow the law and hope it all works out.
Well we know SF policy on law enforcement, I wonder what their policy would be on private gun-ownership, you know, for self-defence? Oh, right. Never mind.
Why isn’t the ACLU coming to the aide of the victim(s)?
Oh, never mind, the ACLU sees the victim as the illegal alien criminal.
I hate to think what will happen if Newsome becomes governor. Idiots in this state will be dumb enough to vote him into office.
I need to get outa here.
May-be San Francisco will get the message if the victims and their families open legal suits against the city every time an illegal immigrant commits yet another violent crime when they should have been previously deported for other crimes.
The sheer weight of the suits should be enough to bankrupt the city many times over due to their look the other way attitude toward illegal immigration
I hate to think what will happen if Newsome becomes governor.
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Oh come on, you will love being part of mexico. The kidnappings, drug wars, murders and rapes will be just a great time for all involved!!!
San Francisco doesn’t have to care at this point because they sheltered, then exported this scumbag. San Francisco is not is San Mateo County, and SM is therefore not SF’s problem.
Inspector Callahan, where are you?
edited for accuracy.
#25 SpeakEasy
He got fired. They don’t want police who have outdated ideas like citizens should be protected and criminals should be punished.
Ok - I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, so someone please explain why nobody has filed a civil suit (or whatever it is) against the city of SF yet? Especially the surviving members of the father and his 2 sons that were recently killed. I can’t imagine thet it would be too hard to convince a jury (even in SF) that the city’s policy to explicitly break the law helped cause those deaths. SF could be sued for a ba-jillion dollars. Isn’t there one conservative attorney in SF that would take this up? Even if it wasn’t successful, it would put other sanctuary cities on notice. I’m just sayin’…
They tell the best and the brightest(ROTC) to get out of town and coddle the worst and the scummiest.
That is SF in a nutshell.
We deserve the government we get when we vote with our noses held tightly. It cuts off circulation to the brain.
No to amnesty, No to McCain.
Misfit, S.F. has more important lawsuits to settle…..
chips
Until a majority of SF and, by extension, US citizens vote the bums out, this type of thing will continue to happen. You reap what you sow.
Are Gavin and the city “leaders” immune from civil lawsuits in cases like these? If these were my loved ones being murdered in the name of their ridiculous progressive policies, I would do everything I could to ruin the a**holes.
ajmontana: a little off track but in your link, wouldn’t a safe level be like ZERO??
#33 - I hear what you’re saying, but couldn’t someone bring a suit against the city itself? I’m no lawyer, but the term “aiding and abetting” comes to mind. Any attorneys in the house care to comment?
I’m sorry but aren’t there laws for aiding and abetting and harboring fugitives?
Don’t we have like a zillion federal laws that these people are violating?
How come every public official in San Fran isn’t standing before a federal judge right now?
Two Texas state reps have asked our Attorney General for an opinion regarding denying funds to sanctuary cities in our state along with other actions such as denying business permits, etc. Can’t wait to see how he rules on this one. Hopefully, we can get something done at the state level since the Feds won’t do anything. However, we have a lot of bleeding heart hispanic reps that want to shield the illegals.
Punishment is a violation of their civil rights. We owe this to them because they are historically disadvantaged. It’s all our parents’ fault for
not getting me a ponyoppressing them.Maybe if he had gutted the San Fran mayor, people would have paid attention….
We must weigh this against the advantages for Bush-in-a-Bubble and his business cronies of combining Mexican labor with American capital.
ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION EVERYONE
In order to avoid the wrath of the politically correct POLICE, the latest proper term for “illegal alien” is “undocumented immigrant”. So, let’s all get on board here so that hurt feelings can be reduced to a minimum amongst the “undocumented immigrants” that are filling up our jails and sucking up free benefits throughout
America.
Yes, good idea. Obama will be much tougher on illegal immigration and sanctuary cities, oh wait..
Maybe I’m just vengeful, but I would prefer to see the people directly responsible for these policies be made to pay the costs of their social experiments. Civil, criminal, I don’t care, but there should be some repercussions for their decisions.
It would very hard for me to see Gavin’s smug, shiny ass prancing around town after I just buried my entire family without feeling wrathful.
The good news… I.C.E. is finally rounding up all the illegals/undocumented/whatever you want to call’em, and putting them on the buses. The bad news is they are headed for Denver. Umm… Compliments of the George Soros Bus Tours Company.
Best comment on the thread so far.
What you’ve got in San Francisco is a city government so malevolently bent on “making a statement” on illegal immigration that law-abiding citizens have become little more than the eggs to be broken in the making of their little political omlette.
I used to love San Francisco. Now when I think of that once-magnificent city, the only emotions I feel are anger and sadness.
OK, so if you’re saying “No to McCain” then you’re saying “Yes to Hopenchange.” In the context of illegal immigration, that’s like saying, “No to retail, yes to wholesale.”
AMEN to that. If I were a victim of the crimes of the Illegal Aliens, I would file suit even if it were going to be thrown out of court. If enough victims did that, San Fran might run out of money for sheltering these criminals. And even if they don’t commit a violent crime, they are still criminals simply for being here illegally. IMHO
A little O/T, but if you have the urge to lose your lunch this morning…
Reid Shares Senate Ideas
Quote: “…I can’t stand John McCain”.
Hell, that’s reason enough to vote for McCain right there.
If you put all those in SF City Hall in a line up, you will see without another word, why corruption abounds.
Stabbing the people Americans won’t.
I’m good with that idea… Could someone please turn off the Sun for a few months? I’m getting a little baked down here in Tahiti.
::sigh:: Maybe we should not be so thin-skinned about this
The issue in San Francisco is that the “leaders” of the city (Newsome, Pelosi, whatever) all live in Pacific Heights - this particular area does not have any urban blight. The illegal aliens, the homeless - whatever undesirables - are all kept in other areas. They live in a nice wealthy, aggressively policed bubble. If you live in that environment it is very difficult to imagine that your decisions or policies have any negative effect - after all they aren’t in your backyard.
I lived in SF for over 10 years and ended up leaving because of the asinine behavior on the part of the “leadership”.
Many government ‘officials’ are legally protected against lawsuits when ‘performing their job duties and carying out their responsiblities’. While I’m not an attorney, I think a GREAT case could be made that this whole sanctuary thing is a violation of federal law and outside any duty or responsibility these bureaucrats and politicians can claim to have, neatly superceding any protection from suits like this.
So, as with many others on this thread, please, please! Somebody, anybody who has been a victim of this stupid policy. Find the meanest a-hole lawyer you can, file a suit naming the city, Gavin Newsome by name, each and every one of the city council and/or supervisors, the police chief, the states attorney for San Francisco and anybody else that didn’t stand up, loud and publicly, and say “This is wrong! We must follow the law!” Is that not part of pretty much every swearing in speech each of these morons made when they took their cushy little overpaid positions? Uphold the law of the land?
Bankrupt a couple of these sanctuary cities and the others will begin to get the messsage. Captain Obvious told me that the state and federal governments aren’t going to do anything to push these cities into enforcing immigration law. Perhaps, as pissed off citizens we can.
At the VERY LEAST, the Feds need to implement ECONOMIC SANCTIONS on SanFran until they OBEY THE FEDERAL LAW.
This action should also apply to ALL sanctuary cities who have enacted policies that circumvent Federal immigration laws.
Juan Hernandez say they are not law breakers so why are you saying this hard working lettuce picker broke a law?
Sarc/
McAmnesty, still waiting for you to fire your Latino outreach director.
Why is it that when I read this, the first thought that comes to mind is the “Eternals” and the “Brutals” in the movie “Zardoz”?
The San Francisco liberal is the ultimate expression of NIMBY: “Pablo, Paco, Emilio, Juan, etc. are OK to work on my backyard, as long as they’re not ‘in my backyard.’”
That would require a spine… I’m sure his has the consistency of a wet noodle, much like all the rest of the boobs in charge.
John McCain has not changed his mind about “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”, amnesty, at all.
http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/03/28/b loggers_press_mccain_adviser_on_immigration
“John McCain’s position on immigration is very clear and this is a question that gets asked at townhall appearances everyday in media appearances and has answered the question at least a thousand times before the New Hampshire primary,” Schmidt said.
He explained, “Any person who supports John McCain’s campaigns is a subscriber to John McCain’s views”
A vote for McCain is a vote for surrender of your country.
Your vote for McCain will be used as proof that you want amnesty whether you do or not.
President Bush: Where the hell are you and your Attorney General???
Source.
How do we sue the administration to enforce a 12 year old law??
Virginia Patriot said: #39
Good point. And when you get attacked by people saying, “Obama is far worse on the issue” you can simply point out that it was McCain/Kennedy not Obama/Kennedy that we smacked down 5 times.
Try this one:
Man Accused of Rape of Girl, 12, in Country Illegally
quick, build a wall around san fran and don’t let anyone out
I was looking for a comment by our infamous “LGM”, but I see they haven’t chimed in. B-cat got your tongue?
No one seems to realize that the far left wants all of the hispanic vote no matter how many illegal aliens murder some one.
They will do anything to stay in power so that they can solialize this great free country.
Illegals contribute to the population totals so that the state doesn’t lose any reps from redistricting due to population losses. Your tax dollars at work to count people who shouldn’t be here to protect the jobs of congressional nitwits.
Have you ever visited a liberal at home. Their kids are totally out of control because it would be “unseemly” to punish them. So they become tyrants in their own households. No difference between these kids and the gang kids who get no punishment for their crimes.
Or the people who elect them.
L.A. elected a former gang banger to be the Mayor. Villar. Or V!agragrossa.
Virginia Patriot said;
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This is the primary reason I am otping for a 3rd party candidate this time around. I don’t want obummer to win, but mcamensty must win without my vote. If mcamensty wins, with a large block of conservative votes especially, it validates to mcamensty we support amnesty and his ‘comprehensive immigration reform” porposals, as well as the GOP leadership will interpret the win as validation of their strategy to move further left on policies. Particularly, the thought that the gop base is “compassionate conservative” and supports the amnsety platform. Amensty will, IMHO, start a death spiral that the country will not recover from.
Just emailed this via Speaker Pelosi’s website:
Not holding my breath.
Why is Jamiel’s law sitting idle?
Really, the gangs have taken over and our political leaders have pockets filled with money by this cancer.
Great Letter Fred. Maybe she’ll just see the first part and run with it as it’s a way to take down Bush. I’m afraid she’ll ignore it if she sees pretty boy’s name mentioned though.
A legal escort service for illegals in San Fransisco Here.
Fred5676, Bravo! That is the kind of spotlight that will leave her staring unblinkingly for some time. Not that anyone would notice.
Just sent this to McCain’s campaign website:
Again, not holding my breath.
Fred, could you provide a link to mccain’s website? Thanks.
Please tell me you’re joking. Hard to believe someone who is registered here to participate in political discussion doesn’t know how to search on the web and/or has yet to get informed on the candidates for the most powerful elected office in the world.
Is this your browser’s home page?
Oh Geez fred5676 post 78you could have warned us that was a porn site you were linking. MY EYES MY EYES
Arggggghhh!!! This is my biggest problem with McCain. Illegal is “illegal” though the liberals like to call them “undocumented”.
Mayor MEChA
On August 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm, John Ansell said:
Again, he was a nobody and if you were actually interested in doing anything about the problem and not just complaining you would join FAIR and vote McCain.
That might actually help the situation but getting involved in the fight against illegal immigration and open borders is more difficult then spending time here.
On August 21st, 2008 at 2:14 pm, TimothyJ said:
Here, since you asked, just click on the purpleish/maroonish lettering.
And would you please let ME know when I can join you to acknowledge ANYTHING that you plan to do that makes ANY COMMON SENSE AT ALL. I am not holding my breath either.
Hey, Fred. Did you know you are a jerk?
Elected officials have a fiduciary duty to the citizenry. It’s too bad that they can’t be held accountable the way corporate officers can. If Mayor Nuisance was personally liable for decisions he makes as mayor, he’d act more responsibly.
It’s not unusual to hear of a physician faced with criminal charges after making a mistake that causes harm or death - even if the error was made under stress (e.g. a crisis in the OR). Same thing for cops: act to save your own life and face years of litigation and personal ruin. Yet elected officials lay a trail of screw-ups from here to eternity and face no consequences worse than having to get a real job after the next election.
No matter the problems government officials cause, the taxpayers get stuck. Even if the victims of sanctuary policies could sue, the taxpayers get the bill. Which brings up an idea:
What needs to happen is that someone sues for billions and wins. San Francisco citizens then get draconian tax assessments to pay the damages - enough to trigger foreclosures and bankruptcies.
Once this happens a couple of times, people will start taking this voting thing seriously.
June 11, 2008
Local Cops Should Enforce Immigration Laws
Gregory D. Lee
Ask any U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent about his job, and he or she will tell you that the vast majority of people they investigate and arrest for drug trafficking are primarily criminal illegal aliens from Mexico.
Having spent half my 20-year career with the DEA assigned to the Los Angeles division, I arrested my share of Mexican nationals. On one of the few occasions I arrested a Caucasian American citizen, other agents walking by the holding cell did double takes when they saw him. That’s how rare it is for the DEA to arrest an American citizen for major drug trafficking.
Please don’t misunderstand; Mexican nationals don’t have a monopoly on U.S drug trafficking. I’ve worked cases involving Cubans, Iranians, Venezuelans, Thais, Chinese, Cambodians, Nigerians, Frenchmen, Britons, Canadians, Pakistanis, Afghans, Israelis, Bolivians and, of course Colombians, who control the cocaine trade. But the overwhelming number of Mexican nationals I arrested far exceeded all others combined.
Once I posed undercover as a drug trafficker to negotiate the purchase of two kilograms of black tar heroin from a Mexican illegal alien. The suspect proudly told me he was the nephew of Rafael Caro-Quintero, the drug cartel leader who kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered DEA special agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena while he was on diplomatic assignment to Mexico in 1985. When the man delivered the heroin to me, he was arrested, and we served a search warrant at his home where he had a loaded gun. His Mexican wife, also an illegal alien, was briefly detained and released. When it came close to the trial date, the man’s defense attorney actually offered to have his client plead guilty if the government wouldn’t deport his wife. That speaks volumes about the lack of respect for our immigration laws back then. The man later unconditionally pled guilty.
What struck me about that case, and many others I’ve worked, is that Mexican national drug traffickers will sometimes personally return to Mexico to pick up the drugs and return to the U.S. the next day, or would make a phone call to have an associate smuggle the drugs into the U.S. for them. This illustrates how porous our borders are.
As a DEA supervisor in Santa Ana, California, my office almost exclusively worked illegal alien Mexican national drug traffickers who sell the vast majority of methamphetamine in this country. An Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) special agent assigned to the group, who was supposed to handle the illegals we encountered, was so overwhelmed with work he became ineffective.
After encountering illegal aliens time and time again, I told my agents that the next time we did a search warrant and there were uninvolved illegals present, we were going to arrest them for immigration violations, even though it wasn’t in our investigative purview. As federal agents, we could arrest anyone for a federal violation committed in our presence. My plan was to arrest and immediately transport illegal aliens to the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint located just south of Santa Ana. Without exception, friends, relatives, wives and paramours of these suspects were arrested and handed over to the Border Patrol that day, and by that night, they were on a bus back in Tijuana.
My worst nightmare was mistakenly detaining a U.S. citizen and sending him back to Tijuana just like in the movie, Born in East L.A. with Cheech Marin. INS agents weren’t very happy with what we were doing, because we were essentially doing their job. They told me I should back off since immigration law was so complex.
How complex can it be? I asked everyone we detained if they were citizens, had a green card, held a U.S. visa, was eligible for immunity or was an asylum seeker. When the answer was no to every question, they were arrested. Without exception, the detainee admitted being here illegally and viewed the arrest as a minor inconvenience. Border Patrol agents told me that about half of those we arrested had prior arrests for illegal entry, yet the U.S. attorney would never prosecute.
Every local police officer should have authority to question a person’s immigration status during the normal performance of their duties and make arrests for federal immigration violations when appropriate.
It’s time for Congress to fund immigration law training for local law enforcement and mandate they enforce its provisions. Those states and “sanctuary cities” that refuse should be cut off of all federal funding until they go along with the program. Doing so would be a manpower multiplier for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. It would have a significant impact on crime in our local communities and make millions of jobs available for deserving Americans.
I tell you over and over and over again my friend we are at the eve of destruction.
JOHN MCCAIN NEEDS A HEARING AID
When I heard McCain’s Hispanic Outreach guy was none other than Smiling Juan Hernandez, I knew John McCain has heard nothing we have had to say.
Smiling Juan Hernadez
We know who he is, we know his loyalties are to Mexico, we know he wants to erase our borders and immigration laws.
JOHN MCCAIN, YOU NEED A NEW HEARING AID
Smiling Juan Hernandez
In case you don’t know him, he used to work for the Mexican govt., lately he has been shilling for “rights” for illegal aliens in this country. He has said he wants Mexicans to remain Mexicans even if they are living here. His loyalties are to Mexico, not U.S.