(Video) Goodbye, Sanctuary

By , YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia
Posted on October 2, 2008, Printed on March 22, 2010
http://www.wiretapmag.org/immigration/43775/

Since 1989, San Francisco has adopted a sanctuary policy that shields undocumented workers, political and economic refugees from federal deportation. Yet, in the wake of increased federal scrutiny and a high profile triple homicide allegedly committed by a 21-year-old undocumented man, the city's policy has come under fire.

This week, statewide immigration raids throughout California resulted in 1,157 arrests.

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