SF Mayor Gavin Newsom: Vows to Ignore The Law, Again
First, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom declared gay marriage legal. Now, he’s publicly pledging to disregard federal law pertaining to illegal immigration. The Examiner reports:
SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday that The City will not comply with any federal legislation that criminalizes efforts to help illegal immigrants.
The mayor also denounced a bipartisan congressional proposal that would beef up border security and allow as many as 12 million illegal immigrants to gain legal status.
Newsom, who has not been afraid to wade into controversial national issues such as gay marriage, appeared with a group of elected officials on the steps of City Hall to support immigrants, “documented as well as undocumented.” ÂNewsom also signed a resolution sponsored by Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, and passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, urging San Francisco law enforcement not to comply with criminal provisions of any new immigration bill.
“San Francisco stands foursquare in strong opposition to the rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C.,” Newsom said. “If people think we were defiant on the gay marriage issue, they haven’t seen defiance.”
It is not the first time San Francisco has weighed in on the immigration issue. In 1989, the Board of Supervisors made San Francisco a “City of Refuge.†The ordinance forbids city resources from being used to enforce federal immigration laws or to gather or disseminate information regarding the status of residents of The City. The Board of Supervisors passed a resolution reaffirming the ordinance in January.
And some people want to declare the President tyrannical??
The sheer arrogance of Newsom just makes me nauseous!
If you are a citizen of San Francisco and are disgusted with the latest antics of your mayor, let him know how you feel (and be civil, now! ;) ).
HAT TIP: Ed Driscoll
Cross-posted at SisterToldjah
UPDATE:
AP: Nearly 50,000 march in San Diego for immigrant rights
(looks like the Associated Press forget about the word “illegal”)
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April 8th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Bet he is not interested in enforcing federal minimum wage laws for illegals either.
April 9th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
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April 9th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
What’s next with these whackos? I expect any day now, for Newsom to announce that San Francisco is printing their own money, starting with the three dollar bill.
I hope Washington gives these sanctuary cities a tune up, by witholding all Federal Funding, but I sure as hell won’t be holding my breath.
April 9th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
They’re over do for another major earthquake, maybe that’ll shake the sense back into these characters.
April 10th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Another government official that wants to select what laws will be enforced and which ones will be ignored. Are we not a nation of laws? These laws require of legal immigrants to include a health inspection. We do not want people coming to the US with the plague or Small Pox. OR any other number of problems that can be spread to the general public. Yet illegals come in with no medical checks. They immediately have help to put them on welfare. Yet legal residents can not be on welfare for 5 years or they are deported. SO it pays to be illegal. It pays to take taxpayer money. Any study done would not give the whole picture. Why is it that one study known that it costs the Federal Government a net loss of 10 billion dollars due to illegals. Yet San Diego County by itself spend nearly a billion dollars for illegals medical, welfare and eductational needs. In fact some students in SanDiego county live in Mexico and go to Catch a school bus right on the Border. No wonder they want to have schools converted to teach in Spanish. The cost of educating illegals could be in the 10’s of billions of dollars every year. That is never added to any study.
I guess with the show of illegals Washington will make them citizens. Because instead of doing what is good for the nation they will do whats good for a special interest. Freedom of speech must be the next thing to be removed because a lot of Americans are sick of the cost of illegals. Soon Social Security will be bankrupt and one of the reasons is Social Security money is moved to help to pay for all the services that are provided to illegals. Each year one or two more million illegals will enter the US increasing the demands on tax dollars. But then when did politicians ever care about lowering taxes. They just want to raise taxes.
April 10th, 2006 at 8:01 am
Immigration Debate: Facts Every American Should Know
It is ALREADY against the law to enter the United States illegally, punishable by a fine and imprisonment. It is ALREADY against the law to hire illegal aliens. We don’t need new immigration laws, we only need the current laws to be enforced - and a fence. Read on: Learn the facts about illegal immigration that every American should know.
FACT: “Immigrants†are people lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States. “Illegal aliens†are people who enter the United States without permission; their presence in the United States violates the law.
FACT: United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1325, states: “Any alien who enters the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.â€
FACT: United States Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, Section 1324a, states: “It is unlawful for a person or other entity to hire for employment in the United States, an alien, knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien…â€
FACT: In 2006, jobs, elementary school education, drivers licenses, in-state college tuition, bank accounts, food stamps, health care, and even home ownership, are all offered to illegal aliens. Some city councils are even considering letting illegal aliens vote in elections because they have children in public schools. The states of Washington, California, New York, Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah provide in-state college tuition rates to illegal aliens; other states are considering the same tuition policy. Several states grant drivers licenses to illegal aliens, ignoring the fact that driver’s licenses are used as a form of ID nationwide. In a few instances, illegal aliens received expensive organ transplant surgery free of charge, and they were placed ahead of tax-paying Americans on the waiting list for the scarce organs. Realtors and lenders in several cities have been known to help illegal aliens purchase homes. Several American cities have become sanctuaries for illegal aliens: In 2003, Seattle’s City Council passed an ordinance preventing the city’s police from questioning the immigration status of people they meet on the streets. For aliens crossing America’s southwest border illegally, water-stations are provided to make the trip through the desert easier. Humanitarian groups placed the water stations along known illegal alien smuggling routes in the Arizona desert.
FACT: In June 2003, the United States Park Ranger Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police announced the “Ten Most Dangerous National Parks in the United States.†Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas, and Big Bend National Park in Texas, claimed the top three positions because of the high volume of illegal alien smuggling activity in those parks. At Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, the rangers estimated that 250 violent drug smugglers and illegal aliens march through the park and public campground areas each night.
FACT: In April 2005, a group of U.S. citizens calling themselves “Minutemen†went to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe illegal aliens entering the country and turn them over to the U.S. Border Patrol. The Minutemen proved that illegal immigration could be stopped by placing more guards on America’s borders, but President George W. Bush derided the efforts of the Minutemen by calling them “vigilantes.â€
FACT: In 2006, it is estimated that more than 12 million illegal aliens reside in the United States. In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security said that it apprehended 1,046,422 illegal aliens, but experts said that nearly 3 million people illegally entered the United States that year. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security officially reported that there were approximately 7 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, and that 67 percent of them, or 4,690,000 people, had entered the United States without being stopped or questioned. They had entered the country illegally by sneaking across the border. Source: “Yearbook of Immigration Statistics,†U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2002, 2003.
FACT and OPINION: It took only 19 people to destroy the World Trade Center and kill nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. Americans can’t afford to allow millions of people to illegally cross U.S. borders and reside in the United States on the assumption that most of them are just “migrant workers.†Allowing and encouraging illegal immigration to the United States, especially after 9/11, is dangerous and foolhardy.
Thank you.
Michael S. Class
Web Site: http://www.MagicPictureFrame.com
Blog: http://www.magicpictureframe.blogspot.com
April 10th, 2006 at 8:33 am
I work for the city of San Francisco, but I don’t live there. I moved out of the city because I could no longer tolerate living in the sad remnant of a once great city. (If you want to see what ten years of hard Left “government” does to a city, come here and look). Anyway, I used to become agitated by things like this. But, frankly, San Francisco is now so irrelevant to anything real or importantant that it no longer matters.
April 11th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
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April 23rd, 2007 at 8:06 am
Arrest San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom…
How dare he or any other city official advocate the blatant defiance of our laws. Title 8 of the United States Code indicates that it is a crime to harbor an ILLEGAL
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