Her last words were: "Help me. Dad." What is maddening about this is that the shooter should never have been on the pier in the first place. He was an illegal immigrant. He was here illegally. He had been convicted of seven felonies. and he had been deported five times. But it gets worse. Just 3 months prior to his shooting and killing Kate Steinle. the San Francisco police had him in custody. Federal immigration officials knew that the San Francisco police had him in custody. They knew he was here illegally. in violation of multiple deportationsa violent criminal convicted on multiple occasions. They said: Hold him until we get somebody there to pick him up and deport him. But the police refused to hold him. Instead. they released the shooter into the public. Why did they do that? Because San Francisco is a sanctuary city. That means that they are a city that specificallyand by law. within the cityforbids their police from cooperating with Federal immigration officials. Even when the police wants to cooperate. it is against the law in the city to do so. The local police and President Obamas administration agree that. with respect to a dangerous person. the Federal and local law enforcement authorities ought to cooperate. but the local politiciansin San Francisco. in this casehave overridden that judgment.
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