| Nearly two decades ago, eighteen major American | | | | promptly report Ramos to federal immigration officials |
| cities adopted the phrase "Sanctuary City" to be used | | | | (ICE) for deportation. The sad fact is that he was |
| in connection with illegal immigrants who reside within | | | | released back onto the streets of San Francisco after |
| their jurisdiction. The term created a practice that did | | | | being held for just two days.So, when Anthony |
| not allow municipal funds or resources to be used to | | | | Bologna and his two sons returned from a picnic on |
| enforce federal immigration laws. As a result, State | | | | June 22, 2008, they were destined to become the |
| police and municipal employees could not inquire about | | | | victims of this lawless American frontier called the |
| anyone's immigration status.Over the years, the | | | | Sanctuary City. All three were gunned down with an |
| concept of the Sanctuary City has spread to other | | | | AK-47 and brutally murdered in broad daylight. Edwin |
| cities throughout America. This dubious system of law | | | | Ramos has been charged with the three slayings. It is |
| enforcement has led to two governments in America, | | | | still uncertain why Ramos committed the murders. It |
| a federal government that was responsible, but often | | | | may have been road rage or it could have been a |
| ineffective, in enforcing national immigration law and a | | | | case of mistaken identity since he may have thought |
| local government that acted as a de facto sponsor for | | | | that Anthony Bologna was a member of a rival gang. |
| illegal immigration.This contradiction in the enforcement | | | | Next, consider that Denver, Colorado is a city that |
| of immigration law, along with a lack of security along | | | | officially and proudly promotes itself as a sanctuary for |
| the United States border with Mexico, has led to the | | | | illegal aliens. The city has certainly lived up to that |
| arrival of twelve million illegal immigrants who currently | | | | reputation in the case of illegal alien, Francis Hernandez. |
| reside in United States cities.Meanwhile a lack of | | | | Hernandez was arrested sixteen times in five years in |
| cooperation between the local and federal | | | | Colorado, but he was never reported to federal |
| government on the issue of illegal immigration has | | | | immigration officials or deported. His criminal charges |
| created a standard of law enforcement for the illegal | | | | included forgery, assault, theft, fraud, and driving under |
| alien that is often far different than that imposed on | | | | restraint. He has never held a driver's license.A few |
| the ordinary American citizen. Consider the following | | | | weeks ago, Hernandez was speeding in a Chevy |
| two examples of illegal immigration law enforcement | | | | Suburban and ran through a red light. His SUV hit a |
| and you will see why the Sanctuary City has become | | | | northbound white Mazda pickup and the impact of that |
| the new American lawless frontier.San Francisco is a | | | | terrible crash killed the two women in the truck and |
| city that has been a true sanctuary for illegal alien and | | | | sent their vehicle cascading one hundred feet into the |
| convicted felon, Edwin Ramos. Ramos was found | | | | corner of a Baskin-Robbins in a Market Square |
| guilty of committing two felonies in San Francisco four | | | | shopping center, killing a three year old boy eating an |
| years ago when he was a juvenile at the age of 17. | | | | ice cream cone. Hernandez fled the scene on foot, but |
| His juvenile crimes included a gang-related assault and | | | | was later captured and charged with his crime. Every |
| an attempted robbery of a pregnant woman. | | | | day, a lack of Sanctuary City law enforcement |
| Unfortunately, these two felony convictions were just | | | | protects the illegal immigrant, often at the expense of |
| the beginning for Ramos. This is because San | | | | the American citizen. Local officials say that playing a |
| Francisco became a Sanctuary City in 1989 and its | | | | role in immigration enforcement would create |
| law prohibits officials from cooperating with federal | | | | accusations of racial profiling and cause their |
| officials in deporting illegal aliens.As a result, Ramos | | | | departments to lose the trust of immigrant |
| was not turned over by San Francisco juvenile justice | | | | communities. It is thought that illegal immigrants would |
| officials to federal immigration authorities. So, the | | | | be reluctant to report crimes out of fear they will be |
| well-known convicted gang leader remained in the city | | | | deported.In the meantime, illegal immigrants are allowed |
| after serving his time only to be arrested once again in | | | | sanctuary to murder, rape, and assault Americans. It is |
| early 2008 on weapons and gang related | | | | a perversity of this country's legal system which |
| charges.Incredibly, two convicted felonies, a reputation | | | | endangers every citizen who lives in the lawless |
| as a well-known gang leader, and another arrest for | | | | American frontier known as the "Sanctuary City". |
| weapons charges still did not get San Francisco to | | | | |