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From her bright eyes and big smile to her sun-kissed, luscious locks, Kathryn Steinle was the consummate California girl. The 32-year-old was shot dead by a proxy of the American Immigration-Industrial-Complex.
ICE, the federal wing of The Complex, was quick to blame its local branch: the city of San Francisco. San Francisco is the sanctuary city that unleashed confessed killer Francisco Sanchez. As a matter of policy, sanctuary cities commit to protecting their illegal population as they would their endangered species.
Yes, San Francisco provided sanctuary not for Kathryn Steinle, but for the likes of Francisco Sanchez. Alas, this criminal alien had accessories to the crime. The murder of Ms. Steinle was a murder-by-proxy. For regularly unleashing predators on people they swore to protect, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement is just as culpable as the sanctuary cities. Last year, reports CNSNews, ICE alone loosed approximately 30,000 convicted criminal aliens, "including those convicted of sex crimes, homicide, drunk driving, kidnapping and robbery." Recidivism among them is proving rife.
Sanchez is the face of successive American administrations -- lawmakers and enforcers; city, state and federal -- who've refused to uphold negative rights; who've rejected a duty that falls perfectly within the purview of the "night-watchman state of classical-liberal theory." And well within the ambit of the U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Ms. Steinle joins a litany of lives lost. Criminal aliens commit crimes all the time. However, until the rise of The Donald and The Coulter duo, a few weeks back, those who determine the "conversation" du jour had been otherwise occupied in northern New York state. For three weeks, they followed a manhunt for local killers escaped.