http://www.sfexaminer.com/man-...uary-city-violation/

A man who San Francisco police turned over to immigration authorities in violation of The City’s sanctuary ordinance is set to be awarded $190,000 in a settlement agreement reached with the City Attorney’s Office, which his lawyer hopes will push police to obey such laws.

Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 33, sued The City on Jan. 17 for violating its sanctuary city laws when officers at Southern Station allegedly cooperated with immigration officials. Figueroa-Zarceno, an undocumented immigrant and native of El Salvador, went to the station at 1251 3rd Street in Mission Bay in December 2015 to report a stolen car.

But instead of helping him find his car, officers called immigration authorities, who took him into custody outside of the station.

Police reports and case documents previously obtained by the Examiner showed that officers at the station detained Figueroa-Zarceno after they ran his name and found a warrant for his arrest. But they were unable to find details on the warrant, so Figueroa-Zarceno was released from a side door, where he was then arrested by immigration officials. Those officials had been notified by San Francisco police.

“It’s really important for San Francisco to remain a sanctuary city not in name only but also in practice,” said Saira Hussain, a staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus, who represented Zarceno.

Hussain said her client’s case is not an isolated incident, and she hopes the settlement will encourage the department to follow its own rules and city ordinances. One recent case she mentioned was when an undercover officer, Joshua Fry, was caught on tape allegedly threatening to call immigration authorities on men in U.N. Plaza on May 5.

“Our hope is that the department is going to look into this further and really examine the way that the department can do more,” she said.

The department did not return a request for comment Wednesday.

The settlement agreement — which was introduced to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday and has yet to be voted on — and lawsuit names a number of officers who were involved, including then-Acting Chief of Police Toney Chaplin, Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, sgts. Trevor Kelly and Eric Balmy, and officers Kevin Clifford, Nicole Chambers and Dayna Thibeaux.

Settlement agreements that are reached by the City Attorney’s Office are usually approved by the Board of Supervisors, but the body can reject them. The matter will next go before the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, which will then send their recommendation back to the Board of Supervisors.

City law, the Due Process for All Ordinance, bars law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, among other federal immigration officials, except in a few exceptions when violent criminals are involved. Part of the law’s purpose was to encourage immigrants to report crimes they may otherwise not report because they fear law enforcement will turn them over to immigration authorities.

The City’s sanctuary laws have been center stage in recent years in national politics, including in the killing of San Francisco resident Kathryn Steinle by an undocumented immigrant who at Pier 14 on July 1, 2015.

The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican citizen, had been sent to San Francisco on an old drug possession warrant from federal custody and then released months before the shooting.

The City came under fire from many who said that Steinle’s death was due to The City’s policies, which allowed the release of Lopez-Sanchez from jail because he had no violent convictions.

Wtf?

When the border wall is built I hope that California is behind it, they act like a foreign country.

Insanity.

Just turn the wall north at Needles.

Wtf? Ignoring the idiocy that is sanctuary city, from what budget is this money paid?

Let's boil this down to the pertinent facts (i.e. get rid of all the bs the lawyer spewed) - A man with an outstanding warrant goes into the police station, his name pops up for the warrant, the media intentionally leaves out the details of the warrant (I'm guessing federal), and he is arrested by the feds. Now, San Fran City Attorney’s Office wants to pay his dumb ass $190k.

This is dumb even by San Fran standards. I don't give a shit if you're an illegal alien or the Congressional MoH recipient, if your dumb ass goes into a police station while you have an outstanding warrant then you should expect to be arrested.

Why in the name of fleeting sanity would anyone pay taxes in the City of San Francisco?

Here's a video of Tucker Carlson discussing the issue with an 'immigration activist' from San Francisco.

I actually applaud this. If I was more of an entrepreneur, I'd set up a cottage industry where I'd gather felonious illegals with outstanding warrant, bus them into SF, drop them off, have ICE bust them, post bail, sue city, and split the booty 50/50 with Juan or Pedro.

Did I miss anything?

Yeah. The check is made out in their name, and they're definite flight risks.

I bet the city officials in San Francisco didn't see that coming when they created the law to save undocumented immigrants.

Good. Hope more illegals are in line for fat payouts. Serves these SF asshats right for coming up with this sanctuary BS in the first place. The city has a $10,000,000,000.00 budget. Payouts to illegals? No problem. Come and get it.

Regarding this:
The suspect, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican citizen, had been sent to San Francisco on an old drug possession warrant from federal custody and then released months before the shooting.

The ex-sheriff asshole specifically requested this illegal turd be turned over to the city on those warrants. The only reason for this was so he could play hero and set the illegal free. Of course, the new sheriff also has to play nice with the F illegals.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I actually applaud this. If I was more of an entrepreneur, I'd set up a cottage industry where I'd gather felonious illegals with outstanding warrant, bus them into SF, drop them off, have ICE bust them, post bail, sue city, and split the booty 50/50 with Juan or Pedro.

Did I miss anything?

I like it. Use Saul Alinsky's rule #4 "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules" right back at them until they break.

CA. Soon to join IL.

It's Ca and they deserve it, We don't.

The wall should surround California not Mexico.

Disgusting. Just disgusting.

Federal funding needs to be cut off, totally, for "sanctuary" cities with administrations that defy federal law.

So does NYS.

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Originally posted by dwright1951:
When the border wall is built I hope that California is behind it, they act like a foreign country.

One of these days, someone is going to see SanFrancisco on some of those acting award shows, getting a trophy for pathetic day time soap opera category, we'll realize that it wasn't actually real life, just a fictional soap opera like the others, and breathe a sigh of relief.....

Or will we?