San Francisco learned nothing from Bologna family murders
May 27th, 2011 1:53 am ET
Dave Gibson
Immigration Reform Examiner
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On June 1, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey will begin releasing illegal-alien criminals from jail, regardless of whether or not federal immigration officials have requested the inmate be held. The sheriff has vowed to uphold the city’s ‘sanctuary policy,’ which will place him in direct violation of federal law.
Sheriff Hennessey stated: “I’m trying to enforce San Francisco’s city of refuge law. The city of refuge law says we are not supposed to comply with federal officials except with felonies. I’m just doing our best to enforce local law. That’s my job.”
San Francisco officials are angry because Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been using data obtained under the Secure Communities program to detain and deport illegal aliens arrested for misdemeanors.
According to ICE, between June 2010 and February 2011, 111 illegal aliens were deported after being identified through Secure Communities in San Francisco on immigration violations alone. Another 85 illegal aliens were deported after committing misdemeanors in the city, along with 45 convicted felons.
However, all of that will come to an end next week, as illegal aliens arrested for misdemeanors will no longer be held on ICE detainers and will simply be released with a citation.
Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch said of the illegal policy: “It’s an astonishing abuse of his office. I guarantee you that someone who is released by him as a result of his lawlessness will go on to commit a more serious crime. People are going to get hurt, or worse, and it will be on him.”
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Apparently, Sheriff Hennessey is either not familiar with the tragedy of the Bologna family…or he simply cares more for the supposed rights of illegal aliens than for the safety of those he is sworn to protect.
In San Francisco, on June 22, 2008, three members of the Bologna family were gunned down by Salvadoran national and gang member Edwin Ramos. Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 were shot to death by Ramos as they sat in their car on a crowded street, in the city´s Excelsior District.
Ramos who is a member of the notoriously violent drug gang known as MS-13, shot the Bologna family to death because Tony Bologna had temporarily blocked the car in which Ramos was traveling, as the two cars made their way through an intersection. The Bologna men were returning home from a family barbecue.
Though in the country illegally, as a juvenile, Ramos committed felony attempted robbery and assault, but was never deported.
Shortly after the shooting, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, Juvenile Probation Department officials failed to report Ramos to federal immigration authorities for deportation because of San Francisco´s stated sanctuary policy.
Unfortunately, there will undoubtedly be more tragedies in San Francisco at the hands of criminal aliens, as well as at those of city officials.
Typical liberal insanity.
