Is California becoming a sanctuary state?
That’s what seems to be happening as Jerry Brown, the state’s Democratic governor, and the state legislature have passed what’s called the “California Values Act,” which imposes the same laws that are commonly practiced in sanctuary cities throughout America onto the state of California as a whole. This means that police won’t be able to ask criminals about their immigration status and state prison officials won’t be able to transfer any of their prisoners to federal prisons, except if they committed very specific and serious offenses.
Yet, it’s these types of serious offenses that people like Jonathan Thompson, Director of the National Sheriffs’ Association — who’s seen here in this clip — are worried about. In 2015 in San Francisco, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed by Juan Francisco López-Sánchez, an illegal immigrant who had been deported from the U.S. five times and who was on probation in Texas when the shooting occurred.
San Francisco is a sanctuary city, and if it had not been, López-Sánchez may not have been in San Francisco’s Embarcadero that day when he fired the gun that killed Steinle. The fact of the matter is that this and so many other crimes committed by illegals are preventable with the elimination of sanctuary status. It’s possible for the federal government to do something about this, but as Thompson says, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Watch as the law man talks to Fox and Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt about this dangerous issue and its possible repercussions.
