How many times must you be instructed of that? I understand you're British but this continuing emphasis on some local San Francisco ordinance or policy being violated by the Feds, like your constant bleating about ICE, betrays a severe lack of understanding of how the US government works.

Until San Francisco is an independent city-state it's going to have to deal with the reality of the fact that when the Feds move in it's going to have to cooperate - it has no choice.

I was wondering what this was all about.

sfgovtv board of supervisors meeting 04/05/11

item 9 resolution endorsing community concerns of surveillance, racial and religious profiling

starting at 1 hour into the meeting.

No one in the United States of America! (under penalty of law or perjury "Has to work with any form of federal law Informant / Enforcement "). The truth is that most idiot's in America don't know the law's!!! they let the people with hand-cuff's, and conference room's forget who really runs this country. it is for the people by the people!!! no position of power shall not be subject to a vote by the people. Politicians' don't have a right to appoint other politician's under any circumstances period! PERIOD!

"With no local oversight"?!..Local oversight by who?...The MS13 'probationary' affiliates and other assorted 'Sanctuary City' apologists who still remain (yea!!for S.F. voters!) on our S.F. City Board of Supervisors?

Are you trying to say that even with FBI superpowers our heroes in blue still can't catch the bad guys that make our fair city one of the best for murder and mayhem? Sounds like Gotham city needs a Bat signal.

Since there are specific rules prohibiting SFPD personnel from initiating investigations and spying without articulable suspcion, police officers who do the FBI's bagwork would be in violation of SFPD regulations and could be fired.

That's terminated, let go, and kicked to the curb, with no pension, no bennies, no easy let-down.

Take that to Gary Delagnes and let him get a good whiff.

"As the Guardian previously reported, the 2008 decimation of San Francisco's sanctuary city legislation and the 2010 activation of the federal government's controversial Secure Communities program, which both happened during former Mayor Gavin Newsom's tenure, means that the city of St. Francis now ranks among the top 38 counties nationwide that are deporting "noncriminal aliens.""

Maybe because SF has so many of them? Get a grip, people. Illegal or non-documented, they are committing a crime by being here and therefore should be subject to immediate deportation whenever they attract the attention of law enforcement at any level. Not politically correct perhaps but where sanity prevails that is what should happen.

The loss of civil liberties is an unintended consequence of that liberal darling, diversity . Like the war on drugs, diversity mainly benefits the law enforcement - judicial complex,. Our runaway spending on prison guards is just one example.

Speaking of growth industries, haven't the ESL advocates have been unusually quiet recently? Of course it costs a lot more to bring non-native English speakers into the mainstream, money education institutions don't have but are required to spend anyhow because mom and dad still speak their native language at home. Meanwhile bright English speaking children, our future leaders and thinkers, who should be getting every bit as much help developing their talents are ignored in favor of non-English speaking minorities.

We are finding out the hard way, the expensive way, that the mixture of welfare state and open borders won't work. I wonder who benefits from tearing our country down this way? The liberal crazies are only implementing the policies, someone else is pushing the buttons.