[Post Millenial] The Feds wanna disappear him before he publicly admits...what? When have they moved this fast on any deportation?The US Department of Homeland Security wants to deport the illegal immigrant accused of assaulting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer.
However, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Thursday that she will refuse to turn the suspect over to ICE officials citing the San Francisco's sanctuary city policies which ban departments and officials from assissting immigration officers with detentions or deportations.
Jenkins said in a statement hours after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement publicly disclosed the hold on David DePape, "San Francisco is a sanctuary city and our policy is sacred."
She added, "We will not be collaborating or coordinating with ICE."
The 42-year-old Canadian citizen is incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail after being arrested after the home invasion, assault and kidnapping plot. DePape arrived in the US as a temporary visitor on March 8, 2008, at San Ysidro Land Port of Entry, according to Homeland Security records.
Jenkins justified the move stating that due to the charges her office filed, "Mr. DePape is facing life in prison." If local law enforcement complied with the ICE hold, DePape would be turned over to ICE and possibly sent back to Canada after his criminal cases concluded.
DePape has been charged in San Francisco and federal court for of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, residential burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, elder abuse, and threats to a public official and her family. He has pleaded "not guilty."