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So now someone who is in our country illegally is suing the SF police department, because the SF police followed the law instead of the following a city policy that flaunts the law. Undocumented worker sues San Francisco for violating sanctuary law
By Alex Dobuzinskis
(Reuters) - An undocumented immigrant from El Salvador is suing San Francisco alleging police violated the city's sanctuary city policy by turning him over to U.S. immigration authorities after he reported his car stolen.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Pedro Figueroa Zarceno, 32, in federal court in San Francisco against the city and its police chief for violating his right to due process and breaking an ordinance barring municipal employees from cooperating with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport a person.
Figueroa walked into a police station in November 2015 to report his car stolen, according to the lawsuit. Two days later, the car was found and when he went to recover it, he was handcuffed and led outside where federal immigration agents were waiting for him, the lawsuit said.
The civil action comes as San Francisco and dozens of other U.S. cities face pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday, to abandon their policies of limiting cooperation between law enforcement officers and U.S. immigration authorities.
"We'll obviously have to review the lawsuit before we can comment on it," John Cote, a spokesman for the San Francisco city attorney, said by phone. "That being said, San Francisco has strong policies in place to encourage victims and witnesses to report crimes without fear of being deported."
The incident occurred about five months after an undocumented immigrant was charged with murder in the shooting of a woman at a San Francisco pier.
The shooting drew nationwide attention because the alleged killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, was previously arrested on a drug charge and released from jail months before the shooting, despite a request from federal officials that he be held until they could pick him up. Sanchez has pleaded not guilty.
Figueroa's attorney, Saira Hussain of the nonprofit group Asian Americans Advancing Justice, said by phone it was a "possibility" that officers arrested her client because they were influenced by the controversy over the Sanchez case.
Via Yahoo News
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice? A Muslim defending an illegal hispanic? So, they are suing because the law was followed. Good luck.
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Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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It's Kommiefornia. There'll be a black-robed, gavel-wielding leftist scumbag that will allow it to go to trial.
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It's Kommiefornia. There'll be a black-robed, gavel-wielding leftist scumbag that will allow it to go to trial. Or, when it goes to court next maybe some honest to God real feds will put him and his legal team in irons and drag them across to the nearest border and kick them across it. Probably wishful thinking but I like the sound of it.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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I read from another website this feller has been released, on bail. So it looks like ICE didn't deport him. Too bad, I was curious how this Lawyer could go to court with him back in his home country.
So the lawsuit isn't about him being wrongly deported from SFO, it is his being given to ICE for being an illegal.
I wonder how many lawyers lobbied to be this guy's agent? Pond scum at their finest.
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federal court upholding city ordinances against federal law?
we may be just that screwed up for it to happen!
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
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