San Francisco Creates Legal Office to Defend Illegal Immigrants From Deportation

[Anonymous 6]

Now, while California is in debt, and has signed a $400 billion dollar deal for universal state health care, this is also where their tax dollars are going. I don’t see how people can honestly live in California. It has nice weather, and seems great to go for a visit. But as far as just living their permanently, I could not do it.

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office launched a new unit Tuesday dedicated to representing illegal immigrants faced with deportation and focused on providing local tax money for cases heard in the city’s federal immigration courts.

The special immigration division, one of only three such programs in the country, consists of three deputy public defenders and a paralegal, reports NBC Bay Area. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee authorized $200,000 in city payroll savings to be used to fund the program through the end of 2017.

Officials expect the unit to handle around 150 clients per year, only 10 percent of the 1,500 detained immigrants that currently have court dates in San Francisco.
Lee, the city Board of Supervisors, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi reached a deal for the new office in March, after months of negotiations over whether the public defender’s office should represent detained immigrants and, if so, to what extent.

While San Francisco has already funded nonprofits that provide legal aid to illegal immigrants, the new public defender’s unit will specialize in cases where the defendant is already in detention. Because deportation proceedings are administrative, not criminal, illegal aliens are not automatically entitled to legal representation in immigration courts.

“Mass deportation is against our core values as Americans and San Franciscans,” Adachi said. “Due process still means something in this country and we are not going to let the federal government ship off our friends and neighbors without a fight.”

In an April letter to nine sanctuary jurisdictions, the Department of Justice asked California cities for proof that they are cooperating with immigration enforcement and warned that they risk losing federal grants. The DOJ specifically called out San Francisco for its stance on immigration enforcement.

“Just several weeks ago in California’s Bay Area, after a raid captured 11 MS-13 members on charges including murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, city officials seemed more concerned with reassuring illegal immigrants that the raid was unrelated to immigration than with warning other MS-13 members that they were next,” the DOJ said.

An estimated 44,000 illegal immigrants—including around 11,000 from Mexico, 10,000 from China, and 2,000 from the Philippines—live in San Francisco, reports NBC Bay Area.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/24/san-francisco-creates-legal-office-to-defend-illegal-immigrants-from-deportation/

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Who is paying the legal fees for this?

[Anonymous 6]

Faust For Science wrote:

Who is paying the legal fees for this?

I do believe that would be the taxpayers, the hardworking people of California. And probably the people of the United States because the federal government does periodically give states money. So it’s not a stretch to assume that the money could be coming from the country as a whole.

[joetechParticipant]

Due process still means something in this country? Really? I’m the wrong person to say THAT to. Meanwhile, why bother having immigration laws at all if states and sanctuary cities can usurp them?

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[Anonymous 6]

Sanctuary cities aren’t supposed to even be legal. A state law cannot supersede federal law. That’s why, if the DEA wanted to, they could stroll into Colorado and arrest every single marijuana store owner and it would be perfectly within the law to do so.

A state must conform to federal immigration standards. That’s why there was talk about withholding federal funds from these cities until they comply with federal regulations.

[SOLI2DEParticipant 745]

I’m plotting my exit from Cali as we speak. I want to move somewhere free where I can buy the guns I want with no capacity restriction and be able to carry concealed and defend myself if necessary. F~~~ this place. I work in SF and live in the Eastbay and it’s protest after protest and whining everywhere. Sheesh

“Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.” -Proverbs 31:3-

[Anonymous 6]

SOLI2DE wrote:

I’m plotting my exit from Cali as we speak. I want to move somewhere free where I can buy the guns I want with no capacity restriction and be able to carry concealed and defend myself if necessary. F~~~ this place. I work in SF and live in the Eastbay and it’s protest after protest and whining everywhere. Sheesh

You sir, want to come to the South. Come on down, the people are friendly, the tea is sweet, elders are respected, guns are allowed, land is readily available, and taxes are relatively cheap. Plus, it’s football country.

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