Francisco Sanchez, a Mexican national, repeat convicted felon, and illegal alien, who has been deported 5 times, and confessed killer of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in San Franciso, will not be getting deported for the sixth time.
It seems as if law enforcement dropped the ball again, after they “declined” to prosecute Sanchez a few months back on old outstanding drug charge. Federal immigration officials pointed the finger at local law enforcement saying that this crime could have been prevented, if the suspect was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation.ICE had him first, but then turned him over to local law enforcement so that they could prosecute him for that drug charge, and requested that they be kept in the loop of any changes in his detainment.
Considering that Sanchez has already been deported 5 other times, one more deportation would have done little to prevent this criminal from returning to the U.S.“We’re not asking local law enforcement to do our job,” ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said in the statement. “All we’re asking is that they notify us when a serious foreign national criminal offender is being released to the street so we can arrange to take custody.”
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The city did not notify ICE, she said, and, “As a result, an individual with a lengthy criminal history, who is now the suspect in a tragic murder case, was released onto the street rather than being turned over to ICE for deportation.”
Someone tell Donald Trump about how this senseless murder made his case about the Mexican government facilitating the passage of criminals into the U.S.
Oh wait, Trump has already cried foul.
.@marcorubio what do you say to the family of Kathryn Steinle in CA who was viciously killed b/c we can’t secure our border? Stand up for US
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2015
Expect trump to rip the existence of these so-called “Sanctuary” cities.
San Francisco like many other California cities often does not turn over illegal immigrants to federal officials.
According to ICE, he had been deported five times, most recently in 2009, and his record included seven prior felony convictions. ICE briefly had him in their custody after he completed a prison sentence in California, but turned him over to San Francisco on an outstanding warrant for a felony drug charge in late March. They lodged what’s known as an “immigration detainer,” which was not honored.
Horne said federal detention orders are not a “legal basis” to hold someone, so Sanchez was released April 15. Horne said the city does not turn over people who are in the country illegally unless there’s an active warrant for their arrest.