San Francisco protecting illegal alien gang members (again)

Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to stop reporting juvenile illegal aliens arrested in the city, to federal authorities for deportation.

A former illegal alien himself, and sponsor of the new ordinance, Supervisor David Campos told reporters: "This is really for our youth, for our kids. Because they deserve nothing more, nothing less than full equality with how the law treats them."

Campos, a native of Guatemala, entered this country illegally when he was 14.

The measure represents a reversal of policy, and a defiance of last year’s court ruling which forced San Francisco to report at least a segment of foreign nationals arrested in the city.

On October 22, 2008, the First District Court of Appeals for the State of California ruled that the San Francisco Police must follow state law which requires police officers to contact federal authorities when they arrest anyone for a narcotics violation, when they suspect the person to be either a legal or illegal alien.

The appellate court ruling reversed a lower court decision which claimed that San Francisco police officers were not required to comply with California state law, when arresting someone they suspected to be a foreign national.

The group Judicial watch filed the lawsuit against San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong, on behalf of San Francisco resident Charles Fonseca.

Shortly after the ruling, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said: "This landmark ruling strikes at the heart of the sanctuary movement for illegal aliens. San Francisco and other sanctuary cities are not above the law. This court ruling exposes the lie behind the argument that state and local law enforcement cannot help enforce immigration laws."

The particular law in question, which provided the basis for the lawsuit reads as follows:

Section 11369 of the Health and Safety Code (Section 11369) states: "When there is reason to believe that any person arrested for a violation [of any of 14 specified drug offenses] may not be a citizen of the United States, the arresting agency shall notify the appropriate agency of the United States having charge of deportation matters."

This ruling forced the San Francisco police chief to become compliant with state law and direct her officers to report all suspects whose immigration status is in question, when that suspect is arrested for drug violations. Given the fact that 90 percent of the illegal drugs sold in this country are brought in from Mexico, the ruling promised to be very effective in dealing with Latin American drug gangs, now responsible for a great deal of violence in California and beyond.

In the year following the Appeals court decision, 149 juvenile illegal alien offenders were turned over to the feds for deportation.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ vote has now undermined that ruling, despite the city’s recent history with violent illegal aliens.

In San Francisco, on June 22, 2008, three members of the Bologna family were gunned down by Salvadoran national and gang member Edwin Ramos. Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 were shot to death by Ramos as they sat in their car on a crowded street, in the city´s Excelsior District.

Ramos who is a member of the notoriously violent drug gang known as MS-13, shot the Bologna family to death because Tony Bologna had temporarily blocked the the path of the car in which Ramos was traveling, as the two cars made their way through an intersection. The Bologna men were returning home from a family barbecue.

As a juvenile, Ramos had committed felony attempted robbery and assault.

Shortly after the shooting, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Juvenile Probation Department officials, did not report Ramos to federal immigration authorities for possible deportation because of San Francisco´s stated sanctuary policy.

The devastated wife and mother Danielle Bologna is now suing the city of San Francisco over the sanctuary policy , which contributed to the death of her family.

In July 2008, it was discovered that San Francisco authorities had shipped sent eight juvenile crack dealers from Honduras to a group home in Southern California, in order to shield the illegal alien gang members from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Shortly after arriving at the home, they all escaped and returned to the streets.

*Reporter’s note: While the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is working very hard for criminal aliens, they seem to have forgotten who they were elected to represent.

With every single crime committed against a San Franciscan by an illegal alien, lawsuits should be filed against every one of the eight Supervisors who have voted to protect illegal aliens, rather than the taxpaying citizens. They should be open to civil action, as they have created a environment which welcomes violent criminal aliens.

Hopefully, there will come a day when those who have raised their right hands and sworn an oath to protect their fellow American citizens, will be criminally prosecuted when they violate that oath and instead protect those who enter this country only to victimize our citizens.