Kamala Harris Championed Sanctuary City Policies — And These Migrant Crimes Could Come Back to Haunt Her

Vice President Kamala Harris championed sanctuary cities when she served as district attorney in San Francisco, with her office saying at the time that “we are a sanctuary city, a city of refuge, and we always will be.”

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Harris was elected as San Francisco’s DA in 2004, running on a campaign vowing to never impose the death penalty and supporting the city’s decades-old sanctuary city policy while in office.

Harris argued at the time that the policy allowed illegal migrants to come forward about crimes without fear of retribution for their immigration status.

Throughout the decades of her career, Harris has also stressed as late as 2019 that “an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

{snip} The Post is looking back at some of the crimes committed on her watch by illegal migrants who benefited from sanctuary city policies {snip}

Edwin Ramos

Edwin Ramos, an illegal migrant from El Salvador, committed a triple murder in 2008 in San Francisco when Harris was district attorney.

Ramos’ gruesome killings of three members of the Bologna family — Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 — rocked national headlines and led then-Mayor Gavin Newsom to change the city’s policies on juvenile crimes.

Before the triple shooting, Ramos had been arrested several times as a juvenile for being involved in a gang-related assault on a bus passenger and an attempted robbery of a pregnant woman {snip}

In both cases, he was not referred to federal authorities because it was a city policy not to question the immigration status of juveniles.

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Harris did not seek the death penalty against Ramos, in keeping with her campaign promise, despite calls from the mother and widow Danielle Bologna.

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Rony Aguilera

Rony Aguilera, an illegal migrant from Honduras, was another juvenile who was arrested during Harris’ reign and not turned over to federal authorities for his immigration status after being found guilty for a federal assault in a juvenile court, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

After being set free in 2007 despite the assault, Aguilera was involved in the gruesome gang-related murder of Ivan Miranda in 2008.

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Alexander Izaguirre

Along with her support for sanctuary city policies, Harris led a program that allowed low-level drug offenders to enter the “Back on Track” program, which gave them job training and could expunge their criminal records.

The DA’s Office was in charge of picking candidates for the program, and notably took in illegal migrant Alexander Izaguirre, who came into the country from Honduras.

Izaguirre was chosen for the jobs program despite being arrested twice in eight months for allegedly snatching a purse and for selling cocaine, the LA Times reported.

While in the program in 2008, Izaguirre assaulted San Francisco resident Amanda Kiefer.

He snatched her purse, jumped into an SUV, and ran Kiefer down with the vehicle, leaving her with a fractured skull.

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Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate and Kate Steinle

Harris has also previously opposed a bill that would increase penalties for illegal migrants who repeatedly enter the US illegally.

As a senator in 2017, Harris helped strike down the Stop Illegal Reentry Act, also known as “Kate’s Law.”

The bill came in response to the 2015 killing of 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle by Mexican national Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate.

At the time, Harris was California attorney general and had announced she was running for US Senate.

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Garcia-Zarate had seven prior felony convictions by the time he was arrested, and had been deported six times, only to re-enter each time.

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