SAN FRANCISCO, CA – City supervisors out of San Francisco are reportedly planning to push forward a proposed policy that was compel local law enforcement to identify, and verify the credentials of, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers who are actively making arrests in the city.
Following an arrest and subsequent deportation of carried out by ICE earlier in March at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen are proposing an ordinance that would direct San Francisco Police (SFPD) officers to confirm the credentials of federal agents actively performing their duties.
Despite the fact that the Guatemalan illegal alien and her daughter who were detained and deported had a final order of removal from back in 2019, city officials are reportedly more concerned at the fact that the ICE agents who conducted the apprehension were in plainclothes.
“With a lot of ICE agents either masked or in plain clothes or without readily identifiable information, we don’t know if someone is not even an ICE agent and is instead abusing that power,” Supervisor Mahmood stated, adding, “Or if they are, we don’t actually know what they’re there to do.”
In the wake of the San Francisco International Airport arrest carried out by ICE, area locals have since filed complaints alleging the SFPD violated the city’s existing sanctuary policies due to SFPD officers responding to the scene of the arrest and standing between the agents and a crowd of agitators at the airport.
Assistant Chief San Francisco Public Defender Angela Chan was among those who filed formal complaints against the department, saying, “I reviewed all the videos. I re-reviewed the laws that I helped to write. I believe what they did was they assisted with immigration enforcement by assisting with an arrest, a detention, and transportation for ICE.”
According to Chan, SFPD officers should simply stand down even if observing a hostile crowd attempting to impede or physically attack federal law enforcement, adding, “You don’t need a law degree to understand the SFPD violated state and local sanctuary laws that night. They were there to protect ICE.”
Following an arrest and subsequent deportation of carried out by ICE earlier in March at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen are proposing an ordinance that would direct San Francisco Police (SFPD) officers to confirm the credentials of federal agents actively performing their duties.
Despite the fact that the Guatemalan illegal alien and her daughter who were detained and deported had a final order of removal from back in 2019, city officials are reportedly more concerned at the fact that the ICE agents who conducted the apprehension were in plainclothes.
“With a lot of ICE agents either masked or in plain clothes or without readily identifiable information, we don’t know if someone is not even an ICE agent and is instead abusing that power,” Supervisor Mahmood stated, adding, “Or if they are, we don’t actually know what they’re there to do.”
In the wake of the San Francisco International Airport arrest carried out by ICE, area locals have since filed complaints alleging the SFPD violated the city’s existing sanctuary policies due to SFPD officers responding to the scene of the arrest and standing between the agents and a crowd of agitators at the airport.
Assistant Chief San Francisco Public Defender Angela Chan was among those who filed formal complaints against the department, saying, “I reviewed all the videos. I re-reviewed the laws that I helped to write. I believe what they did was they assisted with immigration enforcement by assisting with an arrest, a detention, and transportation for ICE.”
According to Chan, SFPD officers should simply stand down even if observing a hostile crowd attempting to impede or physically attack federal law enforcement, adding, “You don’t need a law degree to understand the SFPD violated state and local sanctuary laws that night. They were there to protect ICE.”
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