Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Illegal teen's arrest stirs sanctuary law fight

CALIFORNIA

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' new sanctuary law - intended to block the city from alerting the feds to young illegal immigrant criminal suspects who haven't been convicted - has come into focus again with the arrest of an undocumented 15-year-old in a double slaying at a Mission District pizzeria. The youth - a native of Mexico who attends John O'Connell High School - is one of three suspects in the Sept. 20 killings

Under the revised sanctuary ordinance passed by the supervisors in November, however, the boy shouldn't have been handed to ICE unless he had been convicted - which he hasn't been...

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