June 30, 2008
San Francisco: One big nuthouse
And I'm talking about their so-called law enforcement community.
Check out what the idiots are doing with their foreign, juvenile drug runners.
San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city's immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.
The city's practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco's policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.
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Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney in charge of the San Francisco area, said he was "flabbergasted that the taxpayers' money was being spent for the purpose of ferrying detainees home. You have to have a perfect storm of dumb moves to have it happen."
William Siffermann, chief of San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department, said federal agents have never specifically told his office not to send immigrants back to their home countries, but that he has stopped the practice until differences between the city and immigration authorities are resolved.
He said the city's stance is that it does not have to report illegal immigrant minors to the federal government, even if they are found in Juvenile Court to have committed a crime.
"We are not obligated to," he said. "We are abiding by the sanctuary city ordinance."
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Siffermann stressed that the city ships out juvenile offenders to their home countries only after all other rehabilitative efforts have failed, including probation, foster care and juvenile detention.
The strategy is appropriate, Siffermann said, because deporting young offenders would doom them from ever becoming productive residents of the United States.
"It might prevent them from obtaining citizenship," he said, denying them a chance to "take a different course."
So let me see if I understand this: the lunatics running the probation department don't want to report drug mules because to do so might make it difficult for the foreign crooks to become U.S. citizens.
Words fail me.
Honestly, I sat here, staring at the screen, not sure what to say.
What was it the fed said? Right, a "perfect storm of dumb."
Here's what I don't understand -- why haven't the feds cut off every last cent of federal funds flowing into that sanctuary cesspool? The feds were willing to blackmail states using the power of the pursestrings to raise the drinking age to 21; surely going after cities that block illegal immigration enforcement -- especially when the protected darlings are working for international drug cartels -- is a little more important than whether or not Johnny can have a beer before his 21st birthday.
Perfect storm of dumb, indeed.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 30, 2008 06:13 AM
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