Death Records Now

Will this open the doors to other families who have had family members who were victims of illegal aliens?

Do you agree that these cities should be held responsible when they release a known illegal alien with criminal records back on the streets?

What is your opinion on this decision?
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Judge Lets Victims’ Kin Take City of S.F. to Court

San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — The family of a father and two sons who were slain in San Francisco last year can go to state court with a claim that the city is to blame for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities when he was arrested earlier as a juvenile, a federal judge has ruled.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to rule on the claim herself after dismissing the rest of the suit last month by Tony Bologna’s widow and daughter. But Illston said Friday that the remainder of the family’s case – that the city’s negligence caused the killings – belongs in Superior Court because it is based on state law and challenges San Francisco’s policies.

Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot to death near their home in the Excelsior district in June 2008. Edwin Ramos, 22, is charged with murdering them.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors describe as a member of the MS-13 gang, was arrested twice as a juvenile, for an assault in October 2003 and an attempted purse-snatching in April 2004. Juvenile courts sent him to a shelter after the first incident and to the city-run Log Cabin Ranch in the Peninsula hills after the second.

Case records don’t show whether police or juvenile courts knew that Ramos had entered the United States illegally. But under juvenile authorities’ interpretation of the city’s sanctuary policy at the time, they would not have passed that information along to federal immigration officials. Federal authorities learned of Ramos’ status later but did not take him into custody for deportation proceedings.

The family’s lawsuit says the city was responsible for the shootings because its policy allowed Ramos to go free.

Last month, Illston rejected the family’s claim that the city’s actions violated the shooting victims’ constitutional right to due process of law. She said the city might be held to account if it knew Ramos posed a specific threat to the Bolognas, but not for releasing someone who allegedly endangered a large segment of the public.

Herrera’s office urged Illston to address the negligence claim as well, arguing that it was governed by the same legal standard: a requirement that the plaintiffs show city officials knew the Bolognas were in danger and had a duty to protect them.

But Matthew Davis, the family’s lawyer, said Monday that California law makes it easier to hold government officials accountable for allegedly harboring illegal immigrants or preventing police from reporting them to federal authorities.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/14/BAC519N0BR.DTL#ixzz0R7F5VzHR

Yes. When the criminal illegal alien was released the chances were very high he would re-commit.
The city is responsible. They chose to disregard his illegal status, even though he was a criminal. They released him into the public. If they had deported him and he re-entered then I would say the city was not responsible.
If I have a vicious dog and I release it on the street and it bites someone I am responsible and can be sued.

Tony Bologna, 48, and his two sons, 20-year-old Michael and 16-year-old Matthew, were gunned down at an intersection in June. Police arrested Edwin Ramos, a native of El Salvador, who they say mistook the Bolognas for rival gang members.

Ramos has been charged with three counts of murder and is awaiting trial. He has pleaded not guilty.

The claim states that the city knew Ramos was a member of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, with a violent past, but failed to report him as required by federal law to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

The claim alleges the city knew Ramos "would likely murder men simply because they appeared to be Latino or African American."

"When a city is violating federal law and that violation of law leads to horrific consequences like this, then the city has clearly acted in a negligent manner," said one of the Bologna’s attorneys, Kris Kobach, an immigration law professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10279482?nclick_check=1
Francis Hernandez, the man being held for suspicion of vehicular homicide in the deaths, is now being detained by federal immigration officials.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials sent a faxed detainer on Hernandez, 23, at 12:04 a.m. Saturday, indicating his U.S. citizenship is under question, according to Arapahoe County jail officials and federal authorities.

Hernandez has been arrested 16 times in five years in Colorado but apparently has never been deported, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10401431
You’ll recall that Carranza was an illegal alien out on bail
on child abuse charges. Victim Dashon Harvey’s dad decried the sanctuary climate:This is one that slipped through the cracks. He’s an illegal alien,” said outraged dad James Harvey, whose son Dashon was murdered last Saturday, along with Terrance Aeriel and Iofemi Hightower.

While 28-year-old day laborer Jose Lachira Carranza was behind bars yesterday, prosecutors arrested a third suspect, who is 15 years old, in Morristown, and charged him with felony murder.

Another 15-year-old has also been charged.

Harvey said that Carranza, the alleged ringleader, “should never have been out in the first
place.”

“He’s got child abuse charges. He’s got a weapon. It’s an outrage to the justice system and the community that he’s out.”
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/an_essex_county_grand_jury.html
The advocates for illegals are claiming these are all made up stories and no such events ever took place as every illegal is deported, do you agree Y/N/Unsure ?

Just like illegal aliens can not collect any government benefits because it is against the law. But then again if we take it a step further there are no illegal aliens because that is against the law. So to the final step: They didn’t happen as there are no illegal aliens in the US to break the law because that is against the law.
Pro-criminal logic! Isn’t it amazing!