San Francisco’s public awakening advocate comes under fire for condemning plans to deport opioid dealers

A public defender in San Francisco is rejecting a recently proposed law that would target illegal immigrants convicted of selling fentanyl for deportation.

The law was proposed last week by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who is a recovering drug and alcohol addict, who says the law would be a “hard line” against people who sell the addictive synthetic opioid that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands. of americans

Peter Calloway, a public defender in San Francisco, recently took a public stance against the new policy when he said tweeted: ‘Supervisor Matt Dorsey seeks to end the city’s Sanctuary City policy for people accused of dealing fentanyl. He should note that many of these people are treated under threats of violence towards them/their families.’

Their resistance follows the progressive bent of ousted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who said perhaps as many as 50 percent of drug dealers in SF are illegal Honduran immigrants, many of whom were trafficked and depend on money. they make from selling deadly narcotics. to pay the traffickers who brought them to the United States.

“Ultimately, coming here and selling fentanyl on the streets is not the immigrant experience that we’re trying to honor and affirm,” Dorsey said. “If you take a look at the things for which the sanctuary no longer applies, fentanyl trafficking belongs there.”

San Francisco has been experiencing a continuous crisis of fentanyl and drug addiction on its streets for years

City Supervisor Matt Dorsey recently proposed a law under which illegal fentanyl dealers are flagged to ICE, which would undermine the city’s famed Sanctuary status.

Popular Twitter voice and San Francisco-based businesswoman Michelle Tandler mocked Calloway’s complaints about the proposed new policy: “Won’t somebody think about fentanyl dealers?”

“This is the view of many progressive advocates in San Francisco, including our former district attorney,” he said. wrote. Apparently our sanctuary city policies prevent us from deporting criminals.

Her own comments section, as well as Calloway’s, seemed to be on her side.

‘How dare they?!?!? We must protect fentanyl traffickers at all costs! ESPECIALLY if they are here illegally. Blow,” wrote a user whose profile describes him as a “San Franciscan who loves the city without the leadership.”

‘What, you mean the criminal justice system will be used to protect San Franciscans from the lethal drug purveyors who are killing our brothers and sisters?’ wrote harveyb

Slightly changing the parameters of the city’s sanctuary law, which generally prohibits SF authorities from notifying ICE that the city is releasing a person the federal agency wants to deport from jail, would mean that adults recently charged with fentanyl traffic will be flagged for ICE.

The policy would add another exception to a growing list of serious or violent crimes after which authorities can signal to ICE that someone they are after is being released from jail.

The list currently includes: murder, rape, robbery, arson, and carjacking.

The proposed policy would add fentanyl trafficking to that list, if the trafficker in question had also been previously arrested within the last seven years for the same crime.

Dorsey has said he is prepared for the proposal to “raise eyebrows” among the city’s notoriously aroused progressive political class, but argued that it is a “narrow and common sense exception” to the city’s sanctuary laws.

The drug crisis in San Francisco escalated during the COVID-19 lockdowns and shows no signs of slowing down.

Fatal overdoses have increased and local police have often failed to stop dozens of local merchants from operating openly, specifically in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, angering residents and business owners.

Dorsey says the law would be a “hard line” against people who sell the addictive synthetic opioid that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Fentanyl has killed more than 1,400 people in San Francisco since 2020 and the numbers are not slowing

The city’s open-air drug markets became more apparent during COVID and show no signs of slowing down

Tandler mocked Calloway’s rejection of a proposal that he would flag fentanyl traffickers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Last year, Breed said “a lot” of the city’s dealers are from Honduras, a comment he apologized for after the mob woke up he called “xenophobic and racist.”

Mayor London Breed, whom Calloway has also been strongly critical of, says she wants to be aggressive in going after people who smuggle deadly narcotics into the city’s illegal drug trade.

His goals they are ultimately to reduce addiction, overdose deaths, and the damage caused by open-air drug markets.

In his ongoing battle against his city’s illegal drug purveyors, Breed will continue to fight awakened voices that seemingly prioritize the well-being of dealers, especially illegal ones, over the well-being of the city’s residents.

Last year, Breed said “many” of the city’s dealers are from Honduras, a comment he apologized for after the mob woke up as “xenophobic and racist.”

In addition to Calloway, San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said last week that “criminalizing the supply does nothing to stop the lawsuit” and that “attempts to threaten or diminish our longstanding and historic Sanctuary Ordinance will find strong opposition from our office and the immigrant rights community.

Subjecting immigrants to double punishment and deportation is inhumane and xenophobic, and will hurt immigrants who have been trafficked.