"San Francisco’s progressive sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, issued a memo in March barring deputies from communicating with federal immigration agents, the sheriff’s deputy’s union revealed earlier this week.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mirkarimi issued the memo on March 13, about a month before the sheriff’s department released Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien from Mexico who has used more than 30 aliases since first entering the U.S. in 1991 and has been deported five times.
Lopez-Sanchez, 45, allegedly fatally shot 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle in broad daylight July 1. Lopez-Sanchez was in federal prison until March 26.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued a detainer request to the sheriff’s department asking to be notified before Lopez-Sanchez’s release.
The sheriff’s department declined to honor that request because of San Francisco’s sanctuary city laws.
But Mirkarimi’s March 13 memo went even beyond the city’s statute.
In it, Mirkarimi called for “limited contact and communication with ICE representatives absent a court-issued warrant, a signed court order, or other legal requirement authorizing ICE access.”
According to The Los Angeles Times, Mirkarimi’s directive was stricter than the city’s 2013 Due Process for All ordinance.
That prohibited sheriff’s deputies from holding illegal aliens in jail on behalf of federal immigration agencies past their official release date except in cases involving certain felons.
Mirkarimi memo prohibited deputies from communicating to ICE that the department would not hold Lopez-Sanchez."
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