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| SF Mayor Encourages Illegal immigrants - SF to be sanctuary |
| 2007-04-23 |
| 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. The mayor cannot stop federal authorities from making arrests, Newsom told about 300 mostly Latino members of St. Peter's Church and other religious groups supporting immigrants. But no San Francisco employee will help with immigration enforcement. "I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it.".... This is about 90% symbolic partly because SF is so expensive that middle class families can't find housing never mind illegal immigrants. However, it is indicative of where the left is on this. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #10 Hey, let them all go to SF. Let SF taxpayers take care of them all. Maybe Gavin will find some illegal immigrant's wife to have affair with. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-04-23 21:58 |
| #9 Milking the cow of Vietnam-Hippie Tourism??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-23 21:43 |
| #8 Every year the city of San Franciso through the City Attorney's Office officially certifies that they will enforce all federal laws as a condition of the receipt of federal grant funds. Every year they certify, then enforce a policy directly, and knowingly contrary to what they certify. Since this certification has the power of a contractual or sworn statement, the city is knowingly liable to breach of contract and possible perjury charges. The Pacific Legal Foundation or some other group needs to sue for an injunction to this practice. It is just plain illegal. |
| Posted by: Stop the Madness 2007-04-23 19:05 |
| #7 It occurs to me the reason for all the symbolic gestures by the Liberal Left and the Democrats, but then I repeat myself, is because they don't actually have to do anything. Take the recent vote in Vermont to impeach the Predident. They can't actually do anything so they "Symbolically" impeached him. Look at all the recent symbolic displays getting play in the media. Symbols can be very powerful in eliciting emotions but they need to be visual. We communicate with symbols every day without uttering actual words but these symbols are visual. Certain street signs, bathroom signs, the symbols for applications on your computer are some examples but they are visual. It seems when someone does something like San Francisco and calls it "Symbolic" it elicits derision and ridicule. Karl Jung had some interesting things to say about symbology in "Man and his Symbols". |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-04-23 13:02 |
| #6 Next big earthquake, have the illegals clean it all up. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-23 12:55 |
| #5 SF is self-insured. It would warm the cockles to see some heavy weight Law Center or Law School pick it as a target and sue the living crap out of San Francisco and it's mayor Gavin 'work-for-me-and-I'll-pork-your-wife' Newsom. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-04-23 12:47 |
| #4 Accessory to the fact. Conspiracy. Obstructing federal officers in the performance of their duties. or Sic the torte lawyers on them, for every case where a citizen is robbed, raped, assaulted or murdered by an illegal within their jurisdiction for creating the environment which made the crime possible. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-04-23 12:27 |
| #3 What. a. tool. The rest of the bay area cities should start dumping their arrested illegals in SF, just to mess with Gavin's head. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-04-23 12:07 |
| #2 I wonder what the left would say if a Cities Mayor said they would not assist in collecting federal taxes? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-23 11:41 |
| #1 I note that the states are getting ready for the next census, scheduled for 2010. My guess is this announcement in early '07 will give a good head start for a population influx by late '08; after the primaries and not really on the radar yet for the general 'lection. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-04-23 11:29 |