Monday, April 23, 2007

Sanctuary

Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed Sunday to maintain San Francisco as a sanctuary for immigrants and do everything he can to discourage federal authorities from conducting immigration raids.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have since May 2006 conducted raids across the country, including arrests in San Rafael, Oakland, Richmond, San Pablo, Santa Clara and other cities across the Bay area. Immigration officials have said they were executing arrest warrants for immigrants who had committed crimes or were in the country illegally and had ignored final deportation orders.

- San Francisco Chronicle (read full story here)

Illegal immigrants who commit crimes should get sanctuary in San Francisco?

Remind me not to drink the water in San Francisco.

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