This is what you get when progressives are in control. Illegal immigrant Edwin Ramos had been charged with felonies while a minor. City policy prevented him from being deported. As an adult, he shot and killed a man and his two sons. But it didn't end there.
A measure was enacted to officially prevent authorities from turning over an illegal immigrant minor to immigration until he was convicted. That's right, prevent, not encourage. Not so fast, said Newsome, so he vetoed it. That meant they could be turned over. However, that didn't sit well with city supervisors, they overturned the veto.
Evidently they want to hold on to illegal immigrant criminals as long as they can, even if it means they kill someone one day. How utterly irresponsible and bizarre.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco supervisors have overturned the mayor's veto of a controversial ordinance involving how the city deals with illegal immigrant minors facing felony charges.
After Mayor Gavin Newsom last month vetoed a measure that would prohibit local authorities from turning over minors to immigration officials until the minors have been convicted, city supervisors on Tuesday voted 8-3 to override the veto.
Newsom and city supervisors have been at odds over the issue since the mayor ordered a change in the city's policy in 2008 after Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant, was charged with the fatal shootings of a man and his two sons.
Ramos had been charged with felonies as a minor, but the city's policy prevented him from being deported.
Give Newsom some credit, for backing out of the Gov race (I'll take five cents worth of the licorice please!). Woulda been great though ... hearing/seeing his opponents play his 'greatest hits'. Over and over again.
Sniff
Posted by: Elmo | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 06:32 AM
Grim joke:
In the future, if a terrorist pulls up next to you in his car and asks for directions to San Francisco, what should you do?
Give him a road atlas and wish him good luck.
Posted by: MarkJ | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 08:04 AM
Plus offer to pay for his gas.
Posted by: Philip McDaniel | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 08:51 AM
More politically-correct bullshit from politicians and their liberal supporters getting people killed. Would someone who is a victim of the crimes of these illegal aliens please...please sue the city of San Francisco and its city council for causing the death of their loved ones? Why in the hell can't conservatives learn to use the courts for our advantage?
And we must remember who these people are, and bring them to justice for contributing to the death of innocent people. The liberals who have spauned this suicidal policy of political correctness need to be brought to justice. How many more thousands have to be killed and maimed before we wake the hell up and realize that the real enemy to this country doesn't live in a cave in Pakistan reading the Koran, but sits behind a desk in San Francisco making decisions like the one above. It is sheer madness, and we must confront it, or we are all doomed.
Posted by: templar knight | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 09:51 AM
YES WE CON!
YES WE CON!
Posted by: DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:18 AM
San Francisco is a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants. We need to set up a fund to provide one-way bus tickets to San Francisco for illegals and their families throughout the US. This would show our kindness to both the illegals and San Fran.
Posted by: Compassionate Pete | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:39 AM
No, what needs to be done, and what should already have been done is this:
If you choose not to enforce or to flaunt the immigration laws of the United States, then you will not be eligible for any aid from the United States.
That is a very sensible, no-nonsense solution to the problem. And it would work.
Posted by: templar knight | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 12:55 PM
It seems to me that anyone who is victimized by one of these folks, at any time in the future, ought to have a pretty good legal case against the city.
Posted by: Roscoe | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 06:34 PM
What side of the issue is Newsom on today?
Sure, it was the logical stand to take when he had his hat in the gubernatorial race; but, it wouldn't surprise me if he were the one behind the scenes working to veto his own signature now that he has withdrawn.
Posted by: paul | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 07:46 PM
San Francisco is the city where they worry more about the ecolife of the bay, than the thousands of drug addled winos urinating in the streets. On the bright side, if you go for a stroll in the evening, you can get yourself a lovely chalk outline for nothing!
Posted by: Ad rem | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 09:31 PM
"..you can get yourself a lovely chalk outline for nothing!"
Hmm....I suppose I can't carry my .45 auto when out for an evening stroll in San Francisco. That's a damn good reason for not going there. In all the cities I visit, I'm either allowed to carry my .45, or I don't visit. Just doing my part by saving the cities money on chalk, and stimulating the economy when I bought my new Kimber CDP-II. One sweet gun, I tell you.
Posted by: templar knight | Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:10 AM
templar waxing poetic on the love of his life, "One sweet gun, I tell you."
Sigmund will have a field day with templar I imagine. Something about guns being a substitute for something.... the bigger the gun that they swoon about the smaller the... well, you get the picture now don't you?
Posted by: Proud Liberal | Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Proud Liberal, why do you support criminals who are illegal immigrants?
Posted by: North Dallas Thirty | Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 05:03 PM