I have blogged numerous times that America is often its own worst enemy when it comes to illegal immigration. For decades we sat back and did little while the problem exploded. Now we have millions of illegal immigrants we can’t handle, many of whom are out committing violent crimes against innocent, real Americans.
This story goes beyond outrageous. It’s one thing to throw up our hands and say the epidemic is such that any effort to stem the tide is futile. But to bend over backwards to assist illegals? That’s unconscionable, but it’s happening.
“San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city's immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.
The city's practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco's policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.
Federal authorities counter that drug kingpins are indeed exploiting the immigrants, but that the city's stance allows them to get away with ‘gaming the system.’
The practice, federal authorities say, does nothing to prevent offenders from coming back, while federal deportation legally bars them from ever returning. Federal officials also say U.S. law prohibits helping an illegal immigrant to cross the border, even if it is to return home.”
Read the rest in the SF Chronicle.
Your government, working on behalf of illegal immigrants. Is it any wonder we’re in the mess we’re in?
