San Francisco To Those Illegal Alien Crack Dealers: Would You Like A Free Ride Home To Say Hi To Mom? Hurry Back Though
Michelle has a must read post up about the San Francisco juvenile probation officials and the illegal activities of city employees:
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.
San Francisco juvenile authorities have been grappling for several years with an influx of young Honduran immigrants dealing crack in the Mission District and Tenderloin.
Those who are arrested routinely say they are minors, but police suspect that many are actually adults, living communally in Oakland and other cities at the behest of drug traffickers who claim to be their relatives.
Nonetheless, city authorities have typically accepted the suspects’ stories and handled the cases in Juvenile Court, where proceedings are often shielded from public scrutiny:
:San Francisco police doubt that many of the young Hondurans they arrest on drug charges are even juveniles. Police can report suspected adult illegal immigrants to federal authorities if they commit a crime, said Capt. Tim Hettrich, until recently the head of the narcotics unit. So immigrant drug dealers “pass themselves off as juveniles, with a three-day growth of beard and everything else. It’s frustrating,” he said.
“Some of them have been arrested four or five times,” Hettrich said. “That is one of the big problems with being a city of sanctuary.” He scoffed at San Francisco’s strategy of returning the offenders to their home country. “They probably get the round trip and the next day, they will be right back here,” Hettrich said.
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.”
: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.”
Patricia Lee, head of the San Francisco public defender’s juvenile branch, would not comment on pending cases. But, she said, “a lot of the young people have suffered a lot of abuse, abandonment and neglect in their native country and have been used as (drug-running) mules. There is lot of victimization and trafficking of these young people.”
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June 30, 2008 - 08:59 AM on June 30th, 2008
Yet another (although extreme) example of why San FranFreako is a city spun out of control. Does anyone think America could last long if it were run this way everywhere?
Upon appointment as Benevolent Dictator of America, I would clean up San FranFreako in 30 days by a series of Executive Orders. There would be many unhappy people, but they would be the bums, the grifters, the tax suckers, the drug dealers, the degenerates, the criminals. In short the vermin that ruin everything for the normal, productive people.
June 30, 2008 - 05:39 PM on June 30th, 2008
I say jail the SF Mayor, the Supervisors, and any and all bureaucrats who haven’t turned these drug dealers in, then cut funds to SF.