Immigration Enforcement, Lawsuit by Lawsuit?

The Law: The family of Kate Steinle, the young woman gunned down by an illegal alien in San Francisco, is suing the city and its enablers. How sad nothing's changed since her death, and lawsuits are all citizens have left.

After enduring a round of crocodile tears and flapdoodle from city officials — and a noticeable silence from the White House — it was obvious to the family of Kathryn Steinle, the 32-year-old woman gunned down in broad daylight by a five-times-deported illegal, that the powers that be in the sanctuary city of San Francisco and in the federal government would try to ignore the death of their daughter.

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After all, the San Francisco and federal governments encouraged the non-enforcement of immigration laws and were banking on the public forgetting how illegal aliens are committing heinous crimes with impunity against Americans, shielded by sanctuary city policies.

Business as usual could go on. Or so they hoped.

Except that the Steinles have decided not to let this one go. On Tuesday, they filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, its sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the Bureau of Land Management, whose insufficiently secured gun became the illegal's murder weapon.

Brad Steinle, left, and Jim Steinle, right, the brother 

and father of Kathryn Steinle

"We're frustrated," said Brad Steinle, the dead woman's brother, at a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday. "Because the system failed our sister. And at this point, nobody has taken responsibility, accountability. And nothing has changed."

"We're here not only for Kate, we're here for every citizen of this country who comes to San Francisco," said her father, Jim Steinle. "If you think this can't happen to you, think again."

Read the rest of this IBD editorial HERE.

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