San Francisco Mayor London Breed should be credited for asking the right question earlier this month about the open-air drug trade that has made her city a violent and smelly mess.
“Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work every day and take their children to school?” Breed asked rhetorically during an interview with the local PBS station.
Breed then added: “There are, unfortunately, a lot of people who come from a particular country, come from Honduras, and a lot of the people who are dealing drugs happen to be of that ethnicity. And when a lot of the arrests have been made, for people breaking the law, you have the Public Defender’s office and staff from the Public Defender’s office who are basically accusing and using the law to say, ‘You’re racially — you’re racial profiling. You’re racial profiling.’ Right? And it’s nothing ‘racial profile’ about this. We all know it. It’s the reality. It’s what you see. It’s what’s out there.”
Factually, Breed is 100% correct. Almost all the drug dealers in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco are Honduran nationals who have been smuggled into the United States by drug cartels.
But pointing this reality out is not allowed in the woke confines of California. The San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club quickly put out a statement condemning Breed’s “racist and xenophobic comments.”
Breed was forced to apologize two weeks later.
But she has nothing to apologize for. Drug cartels specifically choose Honduran nationals because they know the Democrats will accuse any officer or prosecutor who goes after them of racial profiling. Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin portrayed these drug dealers as victims struggling with their own substance abuse. Defense attorneys continue to make these claims even now.
But as Oakland journalist Leighton Woodhouse has documented, this just isn’t true. The smuggled drug dealers quickly earn enough money to pay off their debts, and the cartels would cut them loose if they developed a drug habit. That’s bad for business.
The real victims of the drug trade in San Francisco are the working-class families who live in these neighborhoods and have to tip-toe around needles and strung-out drug users every day. By not enforcing the law, by giving drug dealers more leeway just because they are here illegally, the Democrats have made their cities far, far worse.
