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Thursday, July 3, 2008
San Francisco rethinks “sanctuary city” policy
Mayor Gavin Newsom (pictured) announced this week that the city “would begin handing over for deportation juvenile illegal immigrants with drug convictions, reversing a controversial policy of flying the youths back to their home countries at the city’s expense,” the Post said.
The paper also said that the flights were rooted in a 1989 ordinance declaring the city a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants and that they stopped this spring after a U.S. attorney threatened to prosecute city officials for harboring criminals.
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