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Obama's silence on Kathryn Steinle killing is deafening

Marc A. Thiessen | July 13, 2015

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Liz Sullivan and Jim Steinle, parents of Kathryn Steinle


After Trayvon Martin was killed, President Obama spoke emotionally about his death, declaring "this could have been my son."
After Michael Brown was killed, Obama promised to ensure that "justice is done" and declared: "We lost a young man, Michael Brown, in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances. He was 18 years old. His family will never hold Michael in their arms again." He even sent administration officials to attend Brown's funeral.
After Freddie Gray was killed, Obama walked out to the Rose Garden and declared: "We have some soul-searching to do. This has been going on for a long time. This is not new, and we shouldn't pretend that it's new."
But after Kathryn Steinle was killed July 1, allegedly by an illegal immigrant with seven felony convictions, Obama said nothing.

No promises of "justice". No calls for "soul-searching".

His silence has been deafening.
Why has Obama been so reticent to speak out? Perhaps it is because any soul-searching in this case would require him to confront the fact that his administration has been releasing tens of thousands of dangerous illegal immigrants with criminal convictions into our communities, including many who have gone on to commit murder.
It got little notice, but on May 28, Sarah Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, admitted in a letter to Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, the Obama administration had released "121 unique criminal aliens who had an active [deportation] case at the time of release and were subsequently charged with homicide-related offenses."

Think about that: 121 times over the past four years, the administration has released an illegal immigrant with prior criminal convictions who went on to be charged with murder. That is one every 12 days.

In one case, an illegal immigrant and felon named Apolinar Altamirano allegedly gunned down a 21-year-old Arizona convenience store clerk, Grant Ronnebeck, over a pack of cigarettes. Altamirano had been convicted of felony burglary and was in the middle of deportation proceedings. But ICE released him after he posted a $10,000 bond, which allowed him to allegedly go kill an innocent young man.

Asked by Sens. Flake and Grassley whether she had notified state and local authorities when Altamirano was released, Saldana replied, "ICE does not routinely notify local authorities when a detainee is released on bond from ICE custody."

ICE also does not routinely notify local authorities when it releases illegal immigrants who are sex offenders. Last month, a Boston Globe investigation found that between 2008 and 2012, ICE released 424 sex offenders into communities across the country including convicted rapists, child molesters and kidnappers, and that immigration officials have released them without making sure they register with local authorities as sex offenders.

The paper further found that at least 34 of the 424 released sex offenders were back in jail as of last month, state records show, some for heinous crimes committed after ICE released them.
In 2013, the Obama administration released 36,007 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, 1,000 of whom were subsequently convicted of other crimes after their release. Last year they released 30,558 such immigrants. According to the House Judiciary Committee, only 8 percent of those were due to the Supreme Court's decision in Zadvydas v. Davis, which requires that illegal immigrants be released after 180 days if their home countries won't take them back. The other 92 percent were released because of Obama's policies.

Obama doesn't want to talk about that.

He also doesn't want to talk about San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy. Steinle's alleged killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, said he came to San Francisco because he knew the city would not turn him over to federal immigration authorities.

He was right. ICE officials asked San Francisco police to notify them when Lopez-Sanchez was released so that they could take him into custody, but San Francisco refused.
Why didn't Obama come out and condemn the San Francisco police's refusal to cooperate with his own administration's request? He calls out local police departments all the time for everything from alleged racial bias to acting "stupidly." Why not in this case?

Perhaps it's because Obama opposes cracking down on "sanctuary city" policies such as the one that got Kathryn Steinle killed.


After Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray were killed, Obama had liberal public policy points he wanted to make about gun control, stand your ground laws, racial profiling and police bias. In the Steinle case, there are no issues Obama wants to highlight, because his administration supports the policies that led to her death.

No wonder Obama is silent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...f5730e-2959-11e5-a5ea-cf74396e59ec_story.html
 
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Valid points.

Question: how can a country refuse to take back its citizen and what is our fallback for those people?
 
He did have time to call Sandra Fluke when Rush Limbaugh called her a name, though.

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Honestly, if onlye 1 in 36 commit crimes, it isn't really that bad.

Blacks as a demographic commit way more crime than that, and no one is talking about deporting them.
 
Valid points.

Question: how can a country refuse to take back its citizen and what is our fallback for those people?

You push them at the border and close the door.
 
Obama Writes Personal Letters to 46 Felons; No Contact with Kathryn Steinle's Family
by Joel B. Pollak - July 13, 2015

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Nearly two weeks after 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle was murdered on San Francisco's Pier 14 by an illegal alien and convicted felon who was released from prison earlier this year, President Barack Obama has failed to contact the victim's family or mention her in public. Yet Obama took the time to write (and release) 46 personal letters this month to felons imprisoned for non-violent drug offenses whose sentences he has commuted.






Like the 46 felons to whom Obama wrote, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez had served time for non-violent offenses, some of them drug-related. After his arrest, Lopez-Sanchez, who had been deported five times to Mexico, confessed to shooting Steinle as she walked with her family at the popular tourist spot.

Steinle's murder quickly became an iconic example of violent crime by illegal aliens released from custody under the "sanctuary city" policies embraced by San Francisco and other liberal cities that decline to work with federal immigration officials.

Critics have noted that Obama was quick to reach out to the family of Michael Brown, who was killed while charging a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri last year, enhancing Brown's heroic status to drive a political narrative. He has done the same in other, similar cases.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...lons-no-contact-with-kathryn-steinles-family/
 
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I don't care. She was killed and that's a tragedy but a lot of people are gunned down everyday.
 
Megyn Kelly: Kathryn Steinle killing "wasn't deemed worthy" of Obama's attention
By Douglas Ernst
Friday, July 10, 2015




Fox News’ Megyn Kelly gave an impassioned rebuke of the Obama administration’s silence on the killing of Kathryn “Kate” Steinle, 32, a woman shot by an illegal immigrant while she walked along San Francisco’s waterfront on June 30.

The Fox News host asked asked her guests why Mr. Obama highlighted the deaths of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri, but not Steinle. The man accused of killing Steinle has seven prior felony convictions and was deported five times.

When radio host Richard Fowler tried to answer by saying Steinle’s death would not have happened if comprehensive immigration reform was passed, Mrs. Kelly cut him off.

“Stop that. Stop that. Stop that. Answer my question, please. Give an answer,” the Fox host said, Mediaite reported. “You can’t, because there isn’t one. There’s no excuse for it! He picks and chooses the victims he wants to highlight. And apparently, this victim wasn’t deemed worthy.”

Ms. Kelly noted that White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest declined multiple requests to comment on the killing, instead referring reporters to the Department of Justice.

Mr. Fowler said he blamed cuts in border security by Republican politicians for creating sanctuary cities.

Francisco Sanchez, 45, admitted to a local ABC affiliate on July 5 that he killed Steinle. He told a reporter that it was an accident that happened after he took sleeping pills that he found in a Dumpster, the station reported.

Mr. Sanchez told the station that he went to San Francisco for a job and because he would not be pursued by immigration officials.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/10/megyn-kelly-kathryn-steinle-killing-wasnt-deemed-w/
 
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Megyn Kelley is not worthy of Obama's attention.
 
 
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Yeah, because that's the same thing as getting killed by an illegal that's reentered the country 5 times. :rolleyes:

The point is Obama is getting shit on for what, not commenting on everything that happens in the world? I know you guys are partisan hacks but take a break once in a while.
 
The point is Obama is getting shit on for what, not commenting on everything that happens in the world? I know you guys are partisan hacks but take a break once in a while.

It directly relates to his policy. You don't seem like the sharpest crayon in the box though so I understand why you couldn't figure it out.

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