San Francisco to pay $190G to undocumented immigrant over sanctuary law violation

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San Francisco to pay $190G to undocumented immigrant over sanctuary law violation, lawyer says

Published June 30, 2017 Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/)
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2017/06/30/san-francisco-to-pay-190g-to-undocumented-immigrant-over-sanctuary-law-violation-lawyer-says/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1498793597238.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 Attorney Saira Hussain, left, and her client, Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, answer questions about a settlement with the city of San Francisco on Thursday, (AP)

A man from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally who sued San Francisco after police turned him over to immigration authorities in violation of the city's sanctuary law is set to be awarded $190,000, his attorney said Thursday.

Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 33, reached the settlement agreement with the city attorney's office, said Saira Hussain, a staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus who represented Zarceno. The agreement must be approved by the Board of Supervisors.

“It’s really important for San Francisco to remain a sanctuary city not in name only but also in practice,” Hussain told The San Francisco Examiner. “Our hope is that the department is going to look into this further and really examine the way that the department can do more."
Figueroa-Zarceno sued San Francisco in January for violating its sanctuary city law.

The construction worker said he went to police in December 2015 after getting a call from authorities that his stolen car had been found. Instead of helping him, he said, officers detained him and called immigration authorities.

He was taken into custody by federal authorities outside the police station and was in jail for two months. He has been fighting his deportation since his release.

"What happened to me was very unfair and it was an injustice," Figueroa-Zerceno said. "I went into the police station to seek help and they didn't tell me what was happening and they arrested me and treated me badly."

City law prohibits law enforcement officers from cooperating with federal immigration officials except when violent criminals are involved.

Part of the law's purpose was to encourage immigrants to report crimes they may be afraid of disclosing because of fear that investigating officers would turn them over to immigration authorities.

San Francisco's sanctuary law was thrust into the national debate on immigration after the July 2015 slaying of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle.

The man charged with murder in Steinle's slaying, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had been released by San Francisco sheriff's officials months earlier despite a request by immigration officials to keep him behind bars.

House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.

One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate’s Law, would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

[Joshua01]

Drip, drip, drip....slowly Komiefornia approaches ruin....millions of dollars at a time. Their tax base is not a bottomless pit

[crimethink]

Excellent! Bring forth thousands of them, and bankrupt Sodomcisco!

[osoab]

Excellent! Bring forth thousands of them, and bankrupt Sodomcisco!

Jerry and the gang would just raise taxes to cover.

[crimethink]

Jerry and the gang would just raise taxes to cover.

There's only so far that can go.

Look at Illinois.

[osoab]

There's only so far that can go.

Look at Illinois.

Mike Madigan would get money to Chicago.

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when seeing something like this, one should understand that the justice system is not redeemable.

let it crash

[crimethink]

Mike Madigan would get money to Chicago.

The pathetic fuck is begging the banksters not to rate Illinois debt as junk:

https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/midnight-budget-deadline-to-be-missed-madigan-asking-ratings-agencies/article_0a414528-5dba-11e7-9430-bb35b13410c7.html

"Momentarily, I will send a message to the bond rating agencies asking them to defer any further opinions relative to the credit rating of the state of Illinois until we’ve had sufficient time [LOL - two years is not enough - ct] to finalize our budget making.”

It’s been two years since the state has had a fully balanced annual budget. Lawmakers missed their original deadline of May 31 to pass a budget for the next fiscal year and they’ll miss tonight’s midnight deadline as well.

Bond ratings agencies have said if the state doesn’t have a budget by the end of the day, the state’s bonds could be downgraded to junk status.

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who wouldn't want more of these people? story from my part of Houston..

http://www.galvnews.com/news/free/article_65ed8e44-6612-5c2c-b130-ac8d16562fdc.html

Witchcraft, predatory sex and a revenge plot gone fatally wrong led to the shooting death of a Galveston County man last month, investigators allege.

Four men were charged Wednesday with murder in the death of Francisco Esparza, 64, a gardener and nursery worker shot and killed on FM 517 in west Galveston County on the morning of May 23.

Three of the men had already been charged with felonies in Esparza’s death. But investigators this week arrested a fourth man, Jose Leyva, 65, who they allege organized events leading to the killing.


Investigators describe Leyva as a “Mexican card reader,” who acted as a spiritual adviser of sorts to Esparza’s 19-year-old son, according to arrest affidavits the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office released Friday.

In an interview with detectives, Esparza’s son described a series of incidents and interactions with Leyva — who he said worshipped the Roman Catholic Saint Cyprian, but also practiced witchcraft — that ended with his father being shot dead, according to the affidavits.

On May 5, in an event not fully described in the affidavit, the son was stabbed at a Mexican restaurant in Alvin.

After the incident Leyva, who was acquainted with the teen’s aunt and uncle, offered to “cure” the bad spirits inside the teen’s body through a series of prayer sessions, according to the affidavits.

The boy accepted the offer, but the relationship soon departed the spiritual and entered a carnal realm marked by obsession and strange ritual, according to the affidavits.

The son told investigators that Leyva became relentless, calling him “at least eight to 10 times a day” and dropping by his house on numerous occasions to warn about the bad spirit, which he called the “the Black Reaper,” residing in his body, according to the affidavits.

The son told investigators he felt as if he were “going crazy with everything he was told” about how the Black Reaper was causing his bad fortune.

Leyva told the teenager he would have to allow a man to perform oral sex on him to be rid of the invading spirits, according to the affidavits.

And he described three sessions during which the older man performed strange rituals ostensibly to effect a cure for the bad spirits, according to the affidavits.

The older man required the teenager to strip, and, while praying, would rub vegetable oil near the stab wounds and on the teen’s genitals, according to the affidavit.

He propositioned the teenager for sex at least once, according to the affidavit.

There’s no indication in the affidavits that the teenage ever had sex with Leyva beyond the fondling.

After the third session, the teenager said he wanted to stop, but Leyva continued to contact him in increasingly aggressive ways, according to the affidavits.

Leyva told the teen bad things would happen to his family if he didn’t continue the sessions, and the teenager’s mother and sister urged him to continue, according to the affidavits.

The teenager told investigators he refused to see Leyva and that between May 21 and May 23, the day Esparza was shot, both he and his parents had attempted to get Leyva to stop contacting them, according to the affidavit.

On the morning of the shooting, Esparza asked his son for Leyva’s telephone number and said he was going to tell him to leave the teenager alone, according to the affidavits.

That was about 6 a.m. Esparza was shot about four hours later.

Deputies were called to the shooting in the 330 block of FM 517 at 10:35 a.m. by a 911 caller identified as Esparza’s niece.

She told deputies she had seen a man wandering her property before the shooting and had called Esparza, who was nearby. He went there to investigate, she said.

Esparza approached a black Ford F-150 pickup parked beside the highway and occupied by two men, one of whom shot Esparza, investigators said.

Esparza died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Daily News.

The driver of a passing tow truck saw the shooting and snapped a picture of the truck as it fled.

The truck’s license plate number and registration led investigators to an apartment on Telephone Road in Houston.


During a manhunt after the shooting, investigators arrested Jaime Posada, 23, of Houston.

He had been left behind at the scene of the shooting, according to the affidavit. He told investigators he’d gone to the property with plans to commit a robbery.

The photo of the truck led investigators to his brother, Ricardo Posada, 21, also of Houston.

A third man, Santos Botello, 40, was identified by the brothers as the second man in the truck, according to the affidavits.

Botello was found May 25 and arrested after a short chase by a team made up of SWAT officers from around Galveston County.

Botello is accused of shooting Esparza, according to court documents.

Ricardo Posada is accused of having driven the truck, according to court documents.

Investigators first interviewed Leyva on May 30, during which he said he could divine whether bad things were going to happen, while admitting to the prayer and rubbing sessions and to knowing Botello, according to the affidavit.

After being confronted with telephone records, Leyva told investigators he had asked Botello and his cohorts to go to Esparza’s home “to beat someone up,” but he wouldn’t tell detectives who the target was, according to the affidavit.

He told investigators nothing worse than a beating was supposed to have happened, according to the affidavit.

An arrest warrant was issued Wednesday for Leyva. He was arrested and charged with murder with bond set at $250,000, according to court records.

He had posted bond by Friday morning, according to the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office.

Charges against Botello and the Posadas were also upgraded to murder this week.

All three were still being held at the Galveston County jail on Friday.

[Twisted Titan]

I wonder what saint ciprian is telling the old card reader now that he is on the other side?

[midnight rambler]

I wonder what saint ciprian is telling the old card reader now that he is on the other side?

The 'card reader' is still alive and in jail charged with murder