Tag: San Francisco

In this Sept. 18, 2013, file photo, spectators at Pier 39 watch Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA during the 11th race of the America's Cup sailing event in San Francisco. The FBI said Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, that it found a martyrdom letter and several guns in the home of a former Marine who may have been planning a Christmas Day attack on a popular San Francisco tourist destination. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

National Security

Ex-Marine’s ISIS-inspired San Francisco attack foiled, feds say

Kelly Cohen · December 23, 2017 2:39 pm

President Trump focused his weekly address to the nation on illegal immigration and spoke of the death of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old who was shot and killed on a San Francisco pier by an illegal immigrant in 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump slams Democrats for ‘putting national security at risk’ over government spending bill

Melissa Quinn · December 9, 2017 8:36 pm

Whatever the injustice of the verdict in this case, it is right that our Constitution leaves such questions in a juryâs hands. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

No jury can acquit our deadly, lax immigration enforcement

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2017 5:01 am

"It seems like to me that it wouldn't take five minutes to pass the Kate Steinle bill that passed out of the House with a good vote," Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News host Tucker Carlson Friday night after a jury found Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle, who was killed in 2015 on a San Francisco pier. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jeff Sessions after Kate Steinle verdict: ‘Wouldn’t take five minutes’ for Senate to pass ‘Kate’s Law’

Diana Stancy Correll · December 2, 2017 2:03 am

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate will be removed from the country by U.S. immigration officials in accordance with a 2015 arrest warrant. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Arrest warrant issued for illegal immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle murder trial

Katie Leach · December 1, 2017 11:43 pm

Call your congressional representatives on your immigration concerns. But thank the jury for upholding their sworn duty and rendering a verdict, even if you disagree with it. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Beltway Confidential

In the Kate Steinle verdict, the separation of powers worked

Jenna Ellis · December 1, 2017 6:46 pm

Steinle became the face of opposition to sanctuary city policies, as critics argued Zarate would not have been walking the streets if San Francisco police had honored an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request by handing him over to federal authorities. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle vía AP, Archivo)

White House: Kate Steinle verdict ‘underscores the danger to public safety’ posed by poor immigration enforcement

Sarah Bedford · December 1, 2017 4:27 pm

San Francisco's sanctuary policy came under scrutiny during the trial because it allowed Jose Ines Garcia Zarate to be released from jail without federal agents learning of his release, which left them unable to detain him so he could be deported for a sixth time for illegally entering the U.S. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Twitter users unleash #BoycottSanFrancisco as payback for Kate Steinle verdict

Anna Giaritelli · December 1, 2017 1:10 pm

Illegal immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate's sentencing -- he was found not guilty of murder -- sparked reactions on both sides of the aisle, as well as from President Trump, who took to Twitter Thursday. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Trump condemns ‘disgraceful verdict’ in Kate Steinle murder case

Daniel Chaitin · December 1, 2017 4:06 am

San Francisco Superior Court jury determined Zarate was not guilty of first or second degree murder, or manslaughter. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Illegal immigrant found not guilty of murdering Kate Steinle

Diana Stancy Correll · December 1, 2017 1:53 am

"I realize that our fight is the same fight, we're all fighting for our justice, for our freedom," Kaepernick said. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Colin Kaepernick attends Unthanksgiving Day event for Native Americans: ‘I realize that our fight is the same fight’

Naomi Lim · November 24, 2017 3:41 pm

Protesters this year gathered outside the courthouse where a federal judge has heard arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco, a so-called "sanctuary city." (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Federal judge in California blocks Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities

Naomi Lim · November 21, 2017 3:30 am