California Court Rejects Attempt to Throw Out Judicial Watch Taxpayer Lawsuit Against San Francisco’s Illegal Immigrant Sanctuary Policies
DECEMBER 04, 2017
California Court Rejects Attempt to Throw Out Judicial Watch
Taxpayer Lawsuit Against San Francisco’s Illegal Immigrant Sanctuary Policies
DECEMBER 04, 2017
Lawsuit Challenges San Francisco Sheriff’s Restrictions on Deputies’
Communication with ICE About Inmate’s Immigration Status and Release Dates
San Francisco Sanctuary Policy Protected Illegal Alien Jose Ines
Garcia Zarate
Found Not Guilty of Killing Kate Steinle
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch
today announced that the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County
overruled San Francisco Sheriff Vicky Hennessy’s move to end a Judicial Watch
taxpayer lawsuit challenging the Sheriff’s sanctuary policy. The lawsuit
challenges restrictions on the ability of sheriff’s deputies to communicate
freely with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) about inmates’
citizenship, immigration status, and release dates (Cynthia Cerletti v. Vicki Hennessy,
Sheriff (No. CGC-16-556164)).
The November 21, 2017 ruling came in a December
2016 lawsuit brought
by Judicial Watch on behalf of California taxpayer Cynthia Cerletti. The
lawsuit alleges Sheriff Hennessy’s restrictions on communications with ICE
conflict with federal immigration law and are therefore invalid.
San Francisco’s sanctuary policy received
national attention on July 1, 2015, when Kathryn Steinle was gunned down at one
the city’s most popular tourist spots, allegedly by Jose Ines Garcia Zarate
(formerly known as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez), an illegal alien who had been
released from the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department despite a request from ICE
that he be detained for possible deportation. On Thursday, November 30, a
San Francisco jury acquitted Zarate of murder.
In its court filing opposing
Sheriff Hennessy’s effort to dismiss Ms. Cerletti’s lawsuit, Judicial Watch
argued:
Sheriff Hennessy’s refusal to share basic
information about the release of deportable criminal aliens in her custody –
the date, time, and place of their scheduled release – plainly frustrates
Congress’ clear purpose in enacting section 1226(c). By refusing to share
release information, Sheriff Hennessy allows deportable criminal aliens in her
custody – aliens Congress plainly intended to be detained upon release from the
custody of [law enforcement agencies] such as SFSD – to escape federal
immigration officials’ grasp. Her restrictions enable aliens who have committed
aggravated felonies or other crimes deemed sufficiently serious by Congress to
warrant detaining them and denying them bond or conditional parole to remain at
large pending removal. Not only might such persons pose a further danger to the
community – which was one of Congress’ main concerns – but federal immigration
officials must spend additional time and resources and assume unnecessary risk
to themselves, the aliens, and others locating and apprehending them.
In rejecting the attempt to end the lawsuit,
presiding Superior Court Judge Harold Kahn wrote there is “sufficient support
at this stage of the case for Ms. Cerletti’s allegation that the Sheriff’s
policy prohibiting or restricting release information about suspected priority
aliens stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment of Congress’ asserted
purpose of enabling federal immigration officials to gain access to inmates who
may have violated federal immigration laws.” The lawsuit may now proceed
to discovery.
“As Kate Steinle’s death tragically
demonstrates, San Francisco’s sanctuary policy is dangerous and illegal,”
stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “We hope our taxpayer lawsuit can
end San Francisco’s unlawful sanctuary policy before more lives are needlessly
lost.”
JUDICIAL WATCH
The true cost of all that “cheap” Mexican labor is staggering!
Illegal
Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
PEW
MAP OF MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF EUROPE
MAP OF MEXICAN OCCUPATION of U.S.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE
NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA
''California
is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of
MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."
JUDICIAL WATCH
THE GRUESOME MS-13 GANGS FROM LOS ANGELES: THEIR
MURDER, RAPE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
The illegal stabbed her to death with a
screwdriver and then ran her over with her car.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the
daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal
of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every
community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a
rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the
kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of
ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart
Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the
cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”
“Heroin is not produced in the United
States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal
evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was
smuggled into the United States. Indeed,
this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his
appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017
when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect
American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a
record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016,
that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated
$6.1 billion
– BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
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