murder my sister you are not doing a good job and you need to have strict guide lines on how to cooperate with the federal government. the nerve of her to become indignant at your attempt to second guess the sheriff who let out the man despite a detainer request from ice who wound up killing kate. what will get through to them if not the testimony we heard yesterday, kate s death which received national attention? she is indignant over the proposal to do something about it. words cannot express. we met with numerous senators in d.c. and we did have positive feedback both on the left and right side. for those senators congressmen and women that don t get what we are trying to do it s narrow. it s black and white. we re just trying to keep felons
reporter: last monday the white house deferred questions about the murder to his department. i reef you to dhs for how our efforts to focus on felons is implemented. the department of homeland security can answer how it applies in this case. reporter: he said he may send a letter to the steinle family. eric: is he promising change in policy to change all this. reporter: nothing big. he was explaining last year there were 12,000 different times the feds asked a local law enforcement partner to detain someone with something known as a detainer request and the local partners just didn t do it. there is not going to be a crackdown on those local partners by the fed because secretary johnson says he thinks it will make it harder for the
officials wanted sanchez back in their custody they should have known that in san francisco under the sanctuaryñi rules they needed an arrest warrant or court order 0 detainer request was not enough. he blasted immigration and customs enforcement for ignoring a well-known policy and went on. one step even better, i would actually go down to their office only samson street and state do your job. we have been telling them that for 18 months, leading up to this very event do your job. reporter: we re now awaiting a response from the feds not only to the sheriff s claim that they failed to follow procedure but also to his invitation to come here and sit down with them try to come up with better communication guidelines because clearly what we have is a failure communicate. everyone point can finger a somebody else. thank you very much. his son was shot and exiled by a gang member who was in this country illegal he.
handling of francisco sanchez. he had been deported back to mexico five times and was in federal custody in april when the sheriff s department had planned to bring him here to answer for a 20 year old drug offense before being deported. when the charges were dropped he was let go even though ice made it clear they wanted him back. the sheriff said he was following the city s sanctuary law which says a detainer request is not enough and officials need to issue an arrest warrant and there was none for sanchez. a simple phone call from the sheriff letting them know we were going to release someone
arraigned today in a san francisco courtroom. the the 11 supervisors directly responsible. san francisco sanctuary city that does not cooperate with the federal government even on holding and identifying criminal aliens. sanchez was in custody in san francisco and the sheriff, ross merkarami let him out defying ice officials. why not inform ice when you have a felon in your custody? why not draw the line at some place where maybe you are protecting the public. they already know he is in our custody. they actually knew because he came from serving time in another prison. why not work with him to make sure he doesn t get released? well, because a detainer request is not a legal instrument. oh, bull. the sheriff should resign immediately. what kind of law officer allow as known felon to walk free when the feds want him in custody? asked him to keep him in