ICE is known for having released over 60,000 illegal alien criminals onto American streets, but in this case they had actually filed a detainer request for Lopez-Sanchez, but San Francisco authorities refused.
An ICE official told Breitbart News that ICE Enforcement and Removal had begun processing the suspect for reinstatement of removal from the U.S. in March. But instead Lopez-Sanchez was transferred on March 26 from the Bureau of Prisons in another city to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department (SFSD) because of a drug warrant. ICE then filed the detainer request to be notified prior to Lopez-Sanchez’s release from custody.
A San Francisco court dismissed Lopez-Sanchez’s drug charges on March 27.
San Francisco and SFSD policy is to deny ICE detainer requests, barring special circumstances, such as a warrant for a suspected violent offender. The ICE detainer request was denied, and on April 15, 2015 Lopez-Sanchez was released. Two and a half months later Kate Steinle was killed.
The 2013 “Trust Act,” signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, gave California cities like San Francisco more leeway in deciding whether to comply with immigration authorities.
In the ABC7 interview, Sanchez claimed that he had found sleeping pills in a dumpster and taken them before heading down to the pier. He strangely claims he found the gun on a bench wrapped in a T-shirt. In a new version of the story, he says the gun went off three times and that he kicked it into the bay. He then lit up a cigarette, walked away and claims he didn’t know he shot anyone until police picked him up.
Sanchez had initially told police he had shot the gun at sea lions ,ABC 7 reported.
“Sanchez said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials,” the report added.
Source: breitbart.com
Of course, the White House will not accept any blame for this incident, stating that the GOP is to blame.
“The fact is that the president has done everything within his power to make sure that we are focusing our law enforcement resources on criminals and those who pose a threat to public safety and it’s because of the political efforts of Republicans that we have not been able to make the kind of investment that we’d like to make in securing our border and keeping our community safe,” White House spokeman Josh Earnest said.
Lily Gorban-Sinyuk, it’s hilarious reading how some people say that they came here legally when we had open borders and you could just p$#%&!@* a physical for a couple of cents and you were in–especially if you were of European countries, that way they could populate the United States with a majority of Caucasian people. Those immigrants also had difficulty learning the English language, that’s why you have Little Italy, Irish neighborhoods, Polish blocks, Chinatown, and had very high crime. How quickly these “Americans” forget.
Racist bigots!