San Francisco Liberals Rush to Defense of Fentanyl-Dealing Illegal Immigrants

Liberals oppose legislation to deport drug peddlers from cities. Getty Images

Liberals are attacking a San Francisco lawmaker’s plan to deport fentanyl-dealing illegal aliens, arguing it would make immigrant communities distrust the city.

Supervisor Matt Dorsey on Tuesday introduced legislation that would amend San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” The laws that make illegal immigrants who have been caught with fentanyl are designed to allow them to be deported. San Francisco Chronicle Reports. Experts believe that most of the fentanyl poisoning in San Francisco has been caused by illegal immigrants from Honduras.

The bill’s rationale seems lost on progressives, who rushed to condemn Dorsey for his proposal. Bill Hing, a professor of migration law at the University of San Francisco, told The Chronicle The proposal would have been accepted. “chilling effect” All immigrants and the city “should not be in the business of facilitating the deportation of its residents.”

At this time, illegal immigrants convicted in certain violent crimes are not allowed to be flagged by city authorities for deportation.

Del Seymour, an advocate from the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, argued that the illegal immigrants are selling the drug because they have no other options. Fentanyl dealers are a large part of the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood. taken over The streets of the Tenderloin are the epicenter for fentanyl trading in San Francisco.

Activists aren’t the only ones blocking attempts at reform. San Francisco courts have repeatedly blocked District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s efforts to secure pretrial detentions for some of the city’s most dangerous fentanyl dealers, letting the offenders walk free instead.

The debate around San Francisco’s sanctuary city laws came to a head in 2015 after an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times shot and killed a 32-year-old woman. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate was the man. Sentenced In June 2022, to be served time on gun charges stemming out of the murder.