San Bernardino County may sue San Francisco over 'dumping' of illegal immigrant convicts
San Bernardino County officials vowed Thursday not to become a dumping ground for San Francisco criminals, saying they may sue the Northern California city for exporting juvenile offenders to San Bernardino-area group homes. The development comes after a scandal mounted this week over San Francisco's policy for dealing with undocumented, juvenile criminal offenders.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is having to handle the fallout caused by the escape of eight young undocumented drug dealers from unguarded facilities in San Bernardino County as he prepares to run for governor.
"San Francisco has a legal and moral obligation to notify us, and they didn't," said Michelle Scray, assistant chief probation officer for San Bernardino County. "We have requested a list from San Francisco of any other offenders placed in our county. They assured us they would not be sending any more."
For years, San Francisco, a sanctuary city since 1989, has been shielding juvenile offenders from federal authorities, either escorting them to their home countries at city expense or transporting them to group homes, including locations in San Bernardino County.
Mayor Gavin Newsom reversed the policy Wednesday saying minors in the country illegally who commit crimes will be turned over to immigration authorities.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City
Newsome loves big government due to the expenses. The ones that hard working taxpayers have to come up with.
The larger the government the easier to hide expenses.
Posted by: Wesley Franklin | July 08, 2008 at 04:37 PM
These liberal leftists are out of their minds! Why the voters of California - and across the nation - keep re-electing these incredibly irresponsible liberals has got to be one of the greatest mysteries of our time.
You have to be completely disconnected from reality not to see the staggering costs, both in tax-dollars and lives ruined or lost, by throwing your city's arm's open to illegal aliens. They are not Americans. They are not patriotic. They are not even smart. You would think that just one viewing of any number of 10 o'clock news programs, with all the shootings and murders and robberies committed by "Hispanic youths" and which occur on a daily basis in virtually every major city south of North Dakota, would be enough to convince anyone that illegals need to be deported and our nation's borders sealed!
Yet these flaming nutcases in SF and elsewhere are actively engaged in dangerously diluting every aspect of our great society. All in the name of their preposterous ideals. When the Supreme Court stands up for a right they don't like, they think the Constitution needs revision. But somehow, they think other aspects of it give them the right to do whatever they please. Arrest the SF city council and mayor and charge them with every violation possible for trafficking in illegal immigrants, because that's exactly what they are doing!
Posted by: Daniel | July 06, 2008 at 04:42 PM
Newson is anti-American, Anti-patriotic, anti-sovereignty and pro-illegal immigrant. He doesn't seem to mind taxpayers supporting criminal illegal nationals and anybody who breaks laws to cross our porous border.
NUMBERSUSA.
Posted by: Brittanicus | July 04, 2008 at 10:22 PM