San Francisco to pay illegal alien who was arrested by ICE $190,000. Wait till you hear why

San Francisco to pay illegal alien who was arrested by ICE $190,000. Wait till you hear why
Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno (Image: YouTube screen grab via CBS News )

See if you can wrap your noggin around this one. A man from El Salvador enters the U.S. illegally. He arrives in San Francisco, where ultimately police arrest him and turn him over to immigration authorities.

You might expect that the next link in the chain of events would be deportation proceedings against the man, followed in due course by his return to El Salvador. But you would be wrong. The process just described is what happens in the real world. But San Francisco isn’t part of the real world. So divorced from reality is the City by the Bay that it agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the illegal, who will receive the tidy sum of $190,000.

And what exactly were the grounds on which 33-year-old Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno sued the city? You better sit down. He sued San Francisco for violating its own sanctuary law, which prohibits local police from cooperating with the federal government’s enforcement of its immigration laws. The lone exception is when violent violent crimes are involved. Like the murder of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien who had been deported multiple times. That occurred in San Francisco.

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But back to the aggrieved Sr. Figueroa-Zarceno. He told reporters with the Los Angeles Times:

What happened to me was very unfair and it was an injustice. I went into the police station to seek help and they didn’t tell me what was happening and they arrested me and treated me badly.

It turns out that Figueroa-Zarceno had contacted the authorities sometime earlier to report that his car had been stolen. Once his name was in the system, some overzealous cop determined that he was in the country illegally and relayed the information to ICE.

The one question Times reporters failed to ask him is what he plans to do with all that money. One hopes he will use it to start a foundation that provides legal services to other illegals in San Francisco, so that they, too, can exploit the city’s asinine laws as a means to enriching themselves.

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles is a freelance writer and regular contributor to "Liberty Unyielding."

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