{"id":281,"date":"2018-04-03T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:23:55","slug":"281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Did Gavin Newsom betray undocumented migrants to ICE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom markets himself as a friend to undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n<p>But is he really?<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mercury News<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2018\/03\/20\/gavin-newsom-san-francisco-mayor-sanctuary-undocumented-juvenile-deportation\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">A fight over sanctuary policy a decade ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco suggests that he wasn\u2019t always as strident a defender of immigrant rights.<\/p>\n<aside style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/aside>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">In July 2008, Newsom imposed a city policy that reported undocumented youth arrested for felonies to federal immigration authorities. That decision \u2014 made the week after a father and his two sons were killed by an undocumented immigrant \u2014 meant that some kids were put at risk of deportation even if charges against them were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to overturn Newsom\u2019s policy in 2009, mandating that minors could only be referred to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement if they were convicted of a felony. But Newsom\u2019s administration simply ignored the board, continuing to turn juvenile arrestees over to ICE for the rest of his term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Meanwhile, according to emails obtained by the Bay Area News Group, Newsom\u2019s administration also conducted a review of people in the city\u2019s probation system and referred more than 350 suspected undocumented immigrants to ICE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">San Francisco immigrant advocates say Newsom\u2019s record should call into question his commitment to defending California\u2019s sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDon\u2019t try to rewrite history and portray yourself as a champion of immigrants when you yourself were prominently involved with a policy that led to the separation of families,\u201d said former Supervisor David Campos, who led the fight against Newsom on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom markets himself as a friend to undocumented migrants. But is he really? The Mercury News reports: &nbsp; A fight over sanctuary policy a decade ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisco suggests that he wasn\u2019t always as strident a defender of immigrant rights. In July 2008, Newsom imposed a city policy that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}