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Father of slain
S.F. woman Kathryn Steinle supports anti-"sanctuary city" laws
The father of Kathryn Steinle, the San Francisco woman who was shot to
death on a San Francisco pier by an immigrant in the country illegally,
urged lawmakers to consider changes to the country's immigration laws
in order to more effectively get criminal felons off the streets.
"Our family realized the complexity of immigration laws, however we
feel strongly that some legislation should be discussed, enacted or
changed to take these undocumented immigrants felons off our streets
for good," Jim Steinle said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
Tuesday. "We'd be proud to see Kate's name associated with some of this
new legislation. We feel if Kate's law saves one daughter, one son, a
mother, a father, Kate's death won't be in vain."
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican national who allegedly fired
the shot that killed Kathryn Steinle, had been deported three times
before being sentenced to about five years in federal prison in 1998.
In March, after serving a third prison term for re-entering the country
illegally, he was sent to San Francisco on an outstanding drug charge.
The San Francisco district attorney's office declined to prosecute the
case, and he was released from jail even though a federal immigration
order asked local authorities to hold him.
Lopez-Sanchez has pleaded not guilty.
Kathryn Steinle's death sparked a national conversation about so-called
"sanctuary cities" where city employees are largely prohibited from
cooperating with federal authorities to help enforce immigration laws...
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