Seriously. Could this verdict be any more egregious? Jose Ines Garcia Zarate – in the country illegally – deported at least five times – the man who shot and killed Kate Steinle two years ago – was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges yesterday by a San Francisco jury.
 
Here are the basics via Conservative Review ~

On July 1, 2015, the 32-year-old Steinle was shot in the back on Pier 14 in San Francisco while she was walking with her father. No one denies that Zarate shot her, but he claimed that he found a handgun wrapped in a T-shirt under a bench on the pier and that it fired accidentally as he tried to extract it.
 
Zarate was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of the lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. He was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm, a sentence that carries up to three years. Federal immigration officials have stated that Zarate will be deported for a sixth time after he serves jail time.

 
Despite the fact that federal immigration authorities had wanted Zarante detained after the last time he was arrested (on drug charges), San Francisco’s sanctuary city polices allowed for his release. So he was free to wander around Pier 14 in July 2015, “find” a gun, and kill an innocent young woman.

In the wake of Steinle’s death, “Kate’s Law” was introduced into Congress, legislation which would which would increase penalties for those who attempt to re-enter the country after deportation, as Zarate did. This should be a slam dunk ~

Every American with common sense understands that cities do not have the right to lawlessly nullify immigration law and endanger Americans. And someone who enters the United States illegally and commits crimes should be deported and never allowed back.

 
Instead, Kate’s Law is stalled in the hallowed halls of Congress, and…

Funding for border security is hotly contested, as Congress debates extending current government spending levels through Dec. 22 to avoid government shutdown. Meanwhile, some Republicans are instead working to include a deal for DACA amnesty in the spending bill to be passed before the end of this year.

And in California, “Sanctuary City” now means if you’re an illegal (that is you broke our laws just by being here) you’re free to ignore all the rest of our laws as well. As Lloyd Billingsley at FrontPage Mag put it ~

Garcia Zarate has already proved five times that anybody can get away with violating U.S. immigration law. He has already proved that in the sanctuary state of California, false-documented illegals are a privileged class.
 
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, or whatever his real name is, has also proved that a career criminal who is not even supposed to be in the country can literally get away with murder in broad daylight.

For that we can thank our elite ruling class. The rights of illegals now trump the fundamental right to life that American citizens used to possess.

 
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Related:
Rule by one man: Judge declares sanctuary cities ‘law of the land’ ~ Just two weeks ago ~

Amidst a slew of liberal judges imposing nationwide preliminary injunctions on DOJ’s policy of curtailing federal law enforcement grants to sanctuary cities, a San Francisco judge has now implemented a permanent block […]
 
Being a federal judge is an amazing job, especially if you don’t believe in law and the Constitution.
 
According to our prevailing, albeit erroneous, conception of the judiciary, a liberal judge can grant standing to a plaintiff on any political matter; unilaterally serve as a legislature or executive veto on broad-based policy; apply the ruling nationwide; overturn 200 years of precedent, the Constitution, and statute; and have the new decision be regarded as sacred precedent, and then never stand for reelection.