Minutemen Protest SF Sanctuary Laws
By Verv

Sat Aug 02, 2008 - Finally, some people have their hearts in the right place and are challenging the super liberal policies of San Francisco:
About a dozen members of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the U.S.-Mexican border to keep illegal immigrants out, stood on the San Francisco City Hall steps Wednesday to decry the city's sanctuary policy and demand that Mayor Gavin Newsom resign.

They waved signs calling Newsom, District Attorney Kamala Harris and William Siffermann, head of the city's Juvenile Probation Department, "accessories to murder" for the city's now-reversed policy of not turning over illegal immigrant youths arrested for felonies to federal authorities for possible deportation.

One Salvadoran immigrant who benefited from that policy, Edwin Ramos, has been charged with three counts of murder for the June 22 shootings of 48-year-old Tony Bologna and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. Ramos, now 21, was convicted for an assault and an attempted robbery when he was 17, but city officials did not turn him over to federal immigration authorities.
You would think it would make more people look back and reflect: our policy resulted in a father and his two sons being killed because we did not even hand over a previously violent criminal to federal immigration authorities, what were we thinking?

Even in the disagreement over the federal laws you would think that there would be a certain obligation for the Mayor and for the municipality of San Francisco to take action against illegal aliens who are criminals.

Of course, such a cause would not get so much media attention: people are too busy fawning over Barack Obama and adding halos to his head on the covers of their magazines. And, don't forget the fact that Obama essentially mirrors what amounts to sanctuary by giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses. Although it is not as extreme of a policy, what better a way to welcome an illegal immigrant to the country than by giving them an ID which enables them to do anything they want to do (yet does not give them the burden of paying taxes towards any of the services they will be consuming).

At the end of the day the larger media will avoid the Minutemen and the immigration issue as much as possible because it is the place that Democrats drift off so far from the realm of common sense and basic reason it can quickly become as embarrassing as all the Mexican flags at an illegal immigration amnesty rally.





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