San Diego homeless vets sleep on street as city allocates $5 million for legal defense of criminal aliens
Posted by: Pat Droney
San Diego homeless vets sleep on street as city allocates $5 million for legal defense of criminal aliens
Posted by: Pat Droney Lawenforcement Today
In 2019, the city of San Diego, California was home to over 2,600 unsheltered homeless people, along with 2,473 sheltered homeless people, according to ABC-10 San Diego.
Of the total number of homeless in the city, a good number are veterans, with low estimates according to Homeless Veterans of San Diego being around 400 or so.
In San Diego County? That number was estimated to be 1,068 in 2019, about 13% of the entire homeless population.
Wonder what the city could do with the $5 million they are allocating to provide taxpayer-funded attorneys to illegal aliens in federal custody?
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2018, the state of California accounts for nearly 29% of the nation’s homeless veterans.
According to Breitbart, the city of San Diego through its Board of Supervisors approved the allocation of $5 million in a one-year pilot program to give illegal aliens free legal representation in order to fight deportations in court.
According to the Associated Press:
The 3-2 vote directs work to begin on a $5 million, one-year pilot program which will be administered through the county’s public defender’s office. It will provide attorneys for free to those detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, the local federal immigration detention facility.
County staff will have 90 days to report back on a plan to fund and operate the program permanently in partnership with immigrant defense and non-profit groups.
A number of Democratic-controlled cities have already provided such programs to illegals fighting deportation; however, San Diego County would be the first such jurisdiction along the U.S.-Mexico border to adopt such a program.
San Diego already has in place a robust sanctuary city policy that blocks criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation. More than a year ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials accused the County of hiding details on illegal aliens charged with child abuse.
At that time, ICE sent subpoenas to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office (SDCSO) seeking to obtain information on the whereabouts of illegal aliens, and also asked about any release plans the state of California had for the release of illegal aliens.
“Issuance of these immigration subpoenas is necessary because the SDCSO is forced to comply with California’s sanctuary state laws, and therefore cannot cooperate in honoring immigration detainers or requests for non-public information to assist in locating criminal aliens that have been or will be released from custody,” an ICE release said.
ICE official Gregory Archambeault said at that time, “The public needs to be aware and concerned that California sanctuary state laws do not protect public safety and is bad public policy.”
For sanctuary states, it’s all a matter of priorities. For those who have served our country, they are treated merely as an afterthought.
The fact that illegal aliens are being housed in hotels in states such as California while veterans are on the streets tells you all you need to know about the priorities of the Biden administration and Democrats in cities such as San Diego.
This is our nation’s shame.
For more on Biden’s sanctuary country policies, Lawenforcement Today invites you to: