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Mayor Gavin Newsom Has Blood On His Hands

By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com

Writing for TownHall.com, Conservative commentator Michael Reagan delivers a scathing indictment of Mayor Gavin Newsom, whose misguided policies have turned San Francisco into a haven for illegal alien criminals, with tragic results.

Reagan writes:

Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco’s outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it’s time for President Bush to crack down on all the cities in the United States that follow this absurd policy.

On June 22, Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew were shot to death by Edwin Ramos, 21, after a brief traffic incident when Anthony Bologna allegedly briefly blocked Ramos' car from making a left turn, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Ramos, an alleged member of the vicious Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13, should never have been around to kill the three men, and wouldn’t have been – were it not for the city’s sanctuary-city policy. Ramos, an illegal immigrant, was found guilty of committing two felonies when he was 17 – involving a gang-related assault of a Municipal Railway passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman – yet was never surrendered by the city’s juvenile justice authorities to federal officials for possible deportation as required by federal law.

This was no accident. San Francisco municipal law prohibits a criminal's immigration status from being taken into consideration during the arrest procedure. Why? Because to do so would be discriminatory.

Ramos was taken to juvenile hall on charges of assault and participating in a street gang, and was later convicted in juvenile court and put in a shelter. Under federal law, he should have been referred to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) but the Juvenile Probation Department's policy for dealing with offenders stipulated that "probation officers shall not discriminate in any fashion against minors based on their immigration status."

For more than ten years, San Francisco refused as a matter of policy to turn illegal immigrant felons over to federal law enforcement authorities. It's a miracle that more crimes like this hadn't happened already. Now that it has happened, San Francisco's uber-liberal mayor Gavin Newsom – who could very well be California's next governor – has taken belated action:

After a storm of protest following the slayings of the Bologna family men, ... Newsom belatedly rescinded that policy earlier this month following a report in the Chronicle that the city had flown a number of youths out of the country on its own, in possible violation of federal law, and then housed some in unlocked group homes from which they quickly escaped. His action came too late to save the lives of the Bologna men.

Sanctuary cities pose real dangers not only in the ongoing immigration policy battles our country fights with Mexico, but in matters relating to national security and the war on terror as well.

Sanctuary-city policies defy guidelines from the 9/11 Commission Report, which called on state and local authorities to help federal agencies crack down on illegal immigration. “There is a growing role for state and local law enforcement agencies [for the enforcement of immigration law],” the report stated. “They need more training and work with federal agencies so that they can cooperate more effectively with those federal authorities in identifying terrorist suspects.”

Instead, cities like San Francisco congratulate themselves, often with great fanfare, as safe havens for "migrants" – who are invariably presented as the down-trodden and the oppressed, and as worthy recipients of an endless stream of taxpayer-funded entitlements. All the while, the likelihood of a terrorist attack from an OTM ("other than Mexican) group that has slipped through our open borders goes up.

All of which, Reagan says, begs the question of federal intervention to undo the damage officials like Newsom have done.

President Bush should issue an executive order denying any federal funds to those cities which either officially or unofficially provide sanctuaries enabling illegal aliens who commit crimes to escape deportation. They need to learn there is a price to be paid for exposing their citizens to criminal activities by aliens here illegally.

Our Take

There's an old saying from the Torah that says that he who shows kindness to the cruel shows cruelty to the kind. Cities like San Francisco and politicians like Gavin Newsom are so deeply immersed in their indiscriminately compassionate PC ideology that they've lost their capacity for moral reasoning.

As long as voters keep electing the Newsoms of the world, we can expect to suffer many more horrors like this one; horrors great and small, with the ranks of the victims growing by ones and twos, or by the hundreds and thousands, or more.

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