COMMON SENSE –  QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:32 A.M. ET:  Many in the nation were stunned by the verdict in the Kate Steinle case.  I'm not sure why anyone would be stunned by a San Francisco verdict.  The tone of that city is to serve the illegal immigrant, not the victim.  One administration official is speaking out, with common sense.  From Fox: 

Tom Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), says he was "stunned" and "sickened" by the not guilty verdict in the Kate Steinle murder trial.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an illegal immigrant who had been deported multiple times, shot and killed Steinle while she was walking on a San Francisco pier in July 2015.

The shooting sparked a national debate over sanctuary cities, which refuse cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing U.S. immigration law.

Homan noted that Zarate, a multiple-time felon, was released from a San Francisco jail about three months before the shooting, despite a federal request that he be held for deportation.

"This isn't the America I grew up in," Homan said. "For a city to knowingly release a public safety threat back into the public is just ridiculous.

He noted that sanctuary cities are fighting a legal battle with the Justice Department, which is trying to withhold federal funding from cities that don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

"They want to fund sanctuary cities to keep illegal aliens in, but they don't want to fund the border wall to keep them out. To me, that's backwards," Homan said.

COMMENT:  The sanctuary-city crowd regularly does some serious judge shopping to find judges, usually in the 9th Circuit on the West Coast, who will affirm the legality of their schemes.  It is part of the Obama legacy.

Congress is considering legislation that will require enforcement of federal law in so-called sanctuary cities.  If the legislation is passed and signed, there will surely be a Constitutional challenge from the left, and the Supreme Court will ultimately decide.

December 4 2017