Provide gangs with a sanctuary & they'll say thank you with a bullet or knife:
Gang-linked San Fran sanctuary case charged with murder of a father and two sons
michellemalkin.com • July 21, 2008
These stories of preventable violence by illegal aliens are increasingly horrifying, and yet I suspect many of us have almost grown numb to them. But the San Francisco Chronicle’s Jaxon Van Derbeken, who has done a great job uncovering San Fran’s illegal-alien-crack dealer shuttle service, has now linked one of the sanctuary policy’s underage wards to a particularly heinous crime:
The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned.
Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts of murder in the June 22 deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. They were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Tony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman’s car from completing a left turn down a narrow street, police say.
Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors say is a member of a violent street gang, was found guilty of two felonies as a juvenile - a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman - according to authorities familiar with his background.
This is what the feel-good Sanctimony City policies bring upon their law-abiding citizens–and on the rest of the country. San Francisco had two opportunities to deport a violent felon with (if you’ll read a little further in the article) ties to the MS-13 gang, and they didn’t do it. They can’t even plead incompetence–the sanctuary policy worked exactly as it was intended.
The City of San Francisco wanted to keep criminal illegal alien juveniles like Edwin Ramos in San Francisco–or, at least, somewhere inside the United States. They were willing to frustrate a federal law to do so. And a devastating, preventable triple murder occurred because of their policy.
I hope that warm, fuzzy, liberal feeling of sanctuary sanctimony was worth it to them.
P.S. I am so glad I left California–although I seem to be in a sanctuary area nonetheless. Hey Gerry Connolly, is this the policy you want to run on for Congress?
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{Post by See-Dubya}
Reader Comments:
#1On July 21st, 2008 at 2:47 am, AlohaGuy said:
I suspect many of us have almost grown numb to them.
Well, not us. The people who vote for these stupid politicians don’t care. Vote them out, early and often.
#2On July 21st, 2008 at 6:21 am, nyc123me said:
Can the family (if there is any family left alive) sue the state for this? Clearly it is their negligence and intentional ignorance of federal law that permitted this criminal to remain in the US. And what will happen now? The guy will get off ofter a couple of years or deported because he’s not a legal citizen, and he’ll be back on the streets a month later. Wait until one of these bastards murders a politician or their family, THEN you’ll see some reaction. Until it affects them personally, these arrogant idiots in government won’t do a damn thing. Maybe we should deport the politicians.
#3On July 21st, 2008 at 6:37 am, zorro said:
This is what the feel-good Sanctuary City policies bring upon law-abiding citizens–and on the rest of the country.
…emboldened “special non-citizens” who are held above the law. Thank you, liberals.
#4On July 21st, 2008 at 6:39 am, RetFireman said:
It is not that we have grown numb…it is that the media refuses to report these crimes. Well, that is not entirely true…they report them, they just seem to continually omit the fact that they are committed by ILLEGAL immigrants. Instead, they will just put down that the perp was a youth, or “possibly gang related”. Should the topic of the guilty party’s residency status come up, they will again conviniently leave out the “ILLEGAL” portion of it.
They have already succeeded in turning this into a call of racism by continually omitting the ILLEGAL status and turning all of us that support the deportation of anyone coming into this country without the proper proceedures into pseudo-racists, making all of us appear to be against anyone immigrating here, but then make it into where we are allegedly anti-Mexican regardless of the fact that we could care less what country the ILLEGALS came from.
This same tactic is used concerning Muslims who are wanted for or guilty of crimes…namely murders. They refuse to state that the person practices Islam, even though the name of the person could hardly be anything else. Should it be obvious that it is of a Jihadi nature, they will go so far as to completely omit the name all together. Should any of us point out the fact that the guilty party is a practicer of “The Religion Of Peace”, they begin the “Racist, Islamophobic” rhettoric immidiately, hoping to squelch any and all chance of having the truth of what took place.
It is truly difficult to believe that any staff member of the Chronicle is actually on the side of truth and justice, and could actually be exposing the true nature of the crimes and those that commit them…but thank God there is at least one there that will.
With any luck, some of his collegues will be swayed by his actions, and the truth about the epidemic number of violent and drug related crimes that are committed on a daily basis by people that are not supposed to be here in the first place, let alone have been assisted in committing their crimes by the very people and governments that are sworn and dictated by law to protect us from them, ceasing this almost conspiritorial plague of silence and covering up being done by news outlets all across this country.
Only when the lights are finally turned on will the blind idiots of the Left finally lose their arguments concerning the non-deportation of all ILLEGAL immigrants here in this country. |
