By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Mayor London Breed and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins want to change the city’s sanctuary law so the Department of Homeland Security can extradite two people who are accused of serious crimes and are now on the lam in Mexico.
It makes so little sense: DHS doesn’t need the city to change anything. The huge federal agency can work with Mexican authorities to bring those two to justice anytime (assuming, for the moment, that the Mexican authorities actually have custody of the two)…
In reality, this is just a matter of politics, a way for Breed and Jenkins to grandstand as “tough on crime” while they give in to what several supes have called federal “blackmail.”…
But the mayor’s move will come directly to the board this week, when the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee considers Thursday/9 a pair of bill aimed directly at extradition for the two Mexican suspects…(more)
I must be ill-informed. I thought sanctuary city is supposed to allow people to stay in the city, not force them to return.