The family of slain San Francisco resident Kate Steinle announced plans Tuesday to pursue legal action against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and two government agencies for the murder, allegedly by an illegal alien, that drew the attention of the nation and spurred the introduction of “Kate’s Law.”
Kate Steinle’s father Jim, said that “the silence is deafening,” and her brother Brad added “nobody is being held accountable for Kate’s murder” on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Jim said he was frustrated over the “lack
On Thursday evening’s program of the David Webb Show on SiriusXM radio, Governor Scott Walker continued to lay out popular reforms to control exploding immigration.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s driver license has been suspended for failing to report a traffic accident that he was involved in last October.
California’s Bay Area was given a spotlight during last night’s GOP presidential debates when the question of sanctuary cities was raised, stemming from the shooting death of Kate Steinle, 32, of Pleasanton by an illegal immigrant who is a five-time deportee and repeat felon.
A man charged with child molestation and distribution of child pornography and allegedly granted executive amnesty under a 2012 executive action by President Barack Obama has been charged with two additional felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age.
A raging Rep. Luis Gutierrez used his time testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to furiously denounce the Center for Immigration Studies’ Jessica Vaughan, after she quoting him as saying death of Kathryn Steinle was “a little thing.”
Republicans file the first bill aimed at punishing “sanctuary cities” for not working with federal agencies on immigration.
Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) stated that “those of us who have daughters, saw our daughters in Kate Steinle” on Thursday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. Gowdy said, [relevant remarks being around 6:15] “the president said that he
During his Wednesday opening “Talking Points Memo” segment on “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly questioned the left’s value of human life and noted how its belief system of that movement transitioned from being one with economic ideals to its
Wednesday while discussing the Republican legislation proposing to halt federal funds to cities that use the so-called sanctuary cities policy, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) accused Republicans of trying to “exploit,” the murder of Kathryn Steinle “for political purposes.” The legislation
Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on immigration enforcement, Jim Steinle the father of Kathryn Steinle, who was fatally shot in broad daylight while walking on a pier in San Francisco allegedly by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant and
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) referred to the death of Kate Steinle as a “little thing” on Telemundo on Saturday. Gutierrez, during a report on the debate over sanctuary cities after the death of Kate Steinle, first flagged and translated by
Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors responsible for sanctuary city policies that have become controversial again in the wake of the July 1 shooting death of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien are defending those policies, calling for gun
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File,” conservative commentator Ann Coulter, author of “¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole,” reacted to President Barack Obama and his lack of willingness to console the family of Kate Steinle,
The California State Assembly Health Committee passed SB 4 Tuesday on a straight party-line vote, but not without vocal objection from citizen lobbyists. The bill would appropriate $170-740 million annually in taxpayer funds in part to grant illegal aliens Medi-Cal coverage.
Under the liberal policies of sanctuary cities – those city officials do not have to turn over illegal immigrants to ICE, which was the case with Lopez-Sanchez because ICE officials had requested that San Francisco police let ICE know when Lopez-Sanchez were to be released so that ICE would be able to take him into federal custody, but San Francisco refused to notify the federal officials.
Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly continued his push for Kate’s Law on Tuesday. O’Reilly, who has created an online petition for Congress to pass the law, promoted the law and criticized the “uber liberal, left media” for their opposition
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said that making federal detainers mandatory “would be a huge setback in our ability to work with state and local law enforcement” in testimony before Congress on Tuesday. Johnson, under questioning from Representative Trey Gowdy
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he didn’t know if the administration had contacted Kate Steinle’s family and responded “To who?” after being asked if the family had been contacted on Tuesday. Johnson was asked by Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Jim Steinle and Liz Sullivan, the parents of Kate Steinle urged the passage of Kate’s Law during an interview on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. In the first part of the interview, Steinle and Sullivan remembered their
GOP presidential candidate and former Texas governor Rick Perry spoke with John Catsimatidis on Sunday on his AM 970 New York radio show “The Cats Roundtable” about border patrol, which has been an issue he has long battled in his
Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was a 32-year-old woman in the prime of her young life, beloved by family and friends she had moved to San Francisco not long before she was shot and killed at Pier 14 while walking with her father.
The murder of a young woman on a San Francisco pier at the hands of an illegal immigrant has highlighted the dangers of sanctuary cities policies, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) explained in an interview with Brietbart News.
Much of the hubbub surrounding the comments on illegal immigration by Donald Trump springs from the fact that there are no verifiable statistics from the state level on illegal immigrant crime.
His bill, introduced Wednesday, comes on the heels of the murder of Kate Steinle at the hands of a multiple-deportee, multiple felon who was released from custody due to San Francisco’s sanctuary polices. “The senseless murder of a young woman in San Francisco last week tragically illustrates that the politicization of the immigration debate has now swamped even common-sense efforts to protect public safety,” Cotton said. “It is unacceptable that cities would issue ordinances that explicitly aim to frustrate federal immigration laws that are supposed to keep illegal immigrant felons off the streets.”
New information in case of the July 1 shooting death of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco reveals that the San Francisco’s Sheriff’s Department specifically requested the transfer of five-time deportee, seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez to their custody upon release from federal prison on the basis of a drug charge that the Sheriff has since told reporters the city almost never prosecutes.
Specifically, in its statement SFSD claimed that there was no “judiciary order of removal” for the suspect Francisco Sanchez. “That is flat out wrong and flies in the face of all the facts that are in the public domain right now,” the aide told Breitbart News.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA), the city’s police union, has blasted San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and Public Defender Jeff Adachi following the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle July 1 by a five-time deportee and seven-time convicted felon who had come to San Francisco because it is a “sanctuary city” that does not enforce federal immigration laws.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein penned a letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee blaming the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department for not handing over five-time deportee and seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez to federal immigration officials. Lopez-Sanchez confessed to killing 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle on July 1, though he has pleaded not guilty.
Barletta’s bill, the Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act, would strip federal funding for a minimum of one year to any state or locality that has laws or policies in place obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law. The jurisdiction would only regain their federal funding once the attorney general verifies full compliance.
Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul called for “a revolution of folks saying, ‘We want you to obey the law’” on immigration on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Rand said, “You know, conservatives say that we believe in the
“My heart breaks for the family and friends of Kate Steinle, as they have seen a promising young life ended too soon, and the suspect is a criminal who should never have been in this country in the first place” Barletta said in a statement Monday. “That her accused killer is a seven-time felon, was deported five times, and was prevented from being deported a sixth by San Francisco policies, is as maddening as it is inexplicable.”
National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran said the killing of Kate Steinle is an example of “something that’s going to play out many times in this country,” “you’re going to see more criminals like this that should not be
CNN Law Enforcement Analyst and retired NYPD Detective Harry Houck declared that Kate Steinle “would be alive today if they did not have this stupid sanctuary law in that crazy city of San Francisco” and the “responsibility has to lie
Five-time deportee, seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez said in a new interview Sunday with a local ABC News affiliate that he came to San Francisco because he knew the sanctuary city would not hand him over to immigration officials.
Francisco Sanchez, the suspected murderer of Kate Steinle, admitted to firing the fatal shots and said he kept coming back to the US and returned to San Francisco because he knew it was a sanctuary city in an interview with San Francisco’s
The man suspected of gunning down a young woman at random at a popular San Francisco tourist spot on Wednesday has been “deported to Mexico several times,” according to a report by the local ABC News affiliate.