Mr. Speaker, on July 1 of 2015, Kate Steinle was walking
with her father on a pier in San Francisco. While she was on the pier,
she was shot to death by an illegal immigrant who had been deported
five times. He had been convicted of seven felonies. Before he murdered Kate Steinle, the Federal Government had asked the
city to turn him over so that he could be deported again. The city,
following its policy of not cooperating with Federal immigration
officials, released him from jail. He murdered Kate Steinle 3 months
later. A few days ago, her killer was declared not guilty by a San
Francisco jury. For now, there is no justice for Kate Steinle. There is a question in this, though, for all of us. It is a question
we should ask when we are confronted by a terrorist attack conducted by
the asylees like the Boston bombing or the San Bernardino massacre,
where one of the attackers was in the United States on a K-1 visa. The question is: Why was this person in our country? In the case of
Kate Steinle, we now know exactly why: the city of San Francisco's
policy.
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