San Francisco is well known as one of the country’s few sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.
But that may change as the city faces a two-fold crisis.
The local district attorney is asking for a waiver to the sanctuary city designation — so she can arrest two non-citizens suspected of violent crime who have fled the country but have been found by the Department of Homeland Security.
According to the district attorney — one was wanted in connection with a 2009 domestic violence murder.
The other had multiple warrants for child sexual abuse.
The district attorney said quote “What we can’t allow in San Francisco are for people to commit heinous crimes like murder or child rape and then just be able to flee our jurisdiction and avoid prosecution.”
More exceptions could be on the way — as fentanyl continues to kill a staggering number of overdose victims in the city.
Investigators believe that a significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco — as many as half — are undocumented immigrants.
Proposed legislation would deny sanctuary to adults who have been convicted of a fentanyl-dealing felony within the past seven years — AND re-arrested for another fentanyl-dealing crime — or violent felony crime.
San Francisco City Supervisor Matt Dorsey said quote “It is time to withdraw the protection of sanctuary from undocumented immigrants trafficking fentanyl on our streets.”
Last year — the San Francisco Police Department seized about 144 pounds of Fentanyl from drug dealers in the city’s famous Tenderloin neighborhood.