San Francisco bungles Sanctuary City law as immigrant kills after release

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured above), a Democrat who wants to be our next Governor, may have just killed the concept of “Sanctuary Cities” for immigrants.  “Authorities couldn’t fully explain Monday how an alleged gang member and suspected illegal immigrant was able walk out of jail in San Francisco – three months before police say he shot and killed a father and two sons,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Newsom now has blood on his hands. But the party will likely go on for him – with the exception of his gubernatorial campaign which is now D.O.A.

The killer, a man named Edwin Ramos, a native of El Salvador, “was repeatedly shielded as a juvenile from deportation by city officials who failed to notify federal authorities of separate assault and attempted robberies he committed when he was 17.”

Those robberies were felonies.  They included “a gang motivated assault of a Muni bus passenger followed by the attempted street robbery of a pregnant woman.”

Ramos was eventually “jailed on gun and gang allegations in San Francisco,” and “local prosecutors didn’t file charges.”

This episode likely tanks any hopes of expanding the concept of Sanctuary Cities to any other cities in California.  And don’t be surprised if there are calls to reverse such laws in many communities.

It is too bad because if done right the Sanctuary City concept is a good thing.  San Francisco city officials obviously did not manage their idea of a Sanctuary City correctly – and now the entire concept will be damned by the voters.


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