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   From: coffin.hillary@nytimes.com   
      
   San Francisco's newly minted sheriff said his officers won't   
   help federal authorities deport undocumented immigrants despite   
   increasing pressure from the Trump administration to crack down   
   on people living illegally in U.S. sanctuary cities.   
      
   Paul Miyamoto, California's first Asian American sheriff, said   
   going after undocumented immigrants seeking solace is not a   
   priority.   
      
   "Our department is not involved in immigration enforcement," he   
   told KTVU2. "We feel that it is a federal matter, and our realm   
   of interest is public safety, and you can't really have a safe   
   community if the community members are afraid to come to us to   
   report crimes."   
      
   He added that he's not aware of the city ever turning someone in   
   custody over to federal authorities and that he's not starting   
   now.   
      
   The comments come as the Trump administration announced it was   
   deploying members from its law enforcement tactical units   
   serving on the southern border to sanctuary cities across the   
   United States. The move is an escalation in the bitter battle   
   between Trump and cities like San Francisco, Chicago and New   
   York that have refused to work with federal immigration   
   officials.   
      
   ICE's acting director Matthew Albence said the deployment is a   
   necessary response to policies adopted by sanctuary cities.   
      
   Lawrence Payne, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection,   
   confirmed that the agency was sending 100 officers to work with   
   ICE, which conducts arrests in the U.S. "in order to enhance the   
   integrity of the immigration system, protect public safety and   
   strengthen our national security."   
      
   Miyamoto and San Francisco Mayor London Breed said their refusal   
   to cooperate also stems from security concerns.   
      
   The city's elected leaders will "continue to support our   
   immigrant community and stand up for our city and we're putting   
   resources toward accomplishing that goal," Breed said.   
      
   "We're being targeted on so many levels," she added. "But, the   
   fact is, we're a strong city, we're a resilient city and we will   
   fight against those attacks and we will protect the people of   
   this city."   
      
   "We're being targeted on so many levels. But, the fact is we're   
   a strong city, we're a resilient city and we will fight against   
   those attacks and we will protect the people of this city."   
      
   — San Francisco Mayor London Breed   
   San Francisco became the 13th jurisdiction in the United States   
   to prohibit cooperation with federal immigration officials.   
   Since 1989, it's become the epicenter of the sanctuary city   
   movement, regularly provoking the ire of Trump and challenging   
   his administration's campaign against undocumented immigrants.   
      
   Activist Amy Lin, who is undocumented, told the San Francisco   
   Examiner that the city is "really reckoning with our definition   
   of inclusion."   
      
   "Immigrants make up our neighbors, our friends and family, and   
   to really name their rights has to be (the city') priority now,"   
   she said. "We need to make concrete changes."   
      
   Some activists say Trump's persistence has actually solidified   
   support on local levels for sanctuary policies.   
      
   Only 10 out of 7,526 ICE detainer requests went answered in NYC   
   in 2019Video   
   "The Board of Supervisors, and even to some extent the Mayor's   
   Office, has been more unified in defending sanctuary because   
   there's this clear outside threat that is absolutely racist,   
   anti-immigrant and engaging in white nationalism," said Angela   
   Chan, a former police commissioner and a criminal justice   
   attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice.   
      
   San Francisco has won three lawsuits against the government   
   between 2017 and 2019 to protect local sanctuary laws.   
      
   City officials said they don't know when an ICE raid could come,   
   but they do not expect to get a head's up as in previous years.   
      
   In nearby Oakland, another sanctuary city, Mayor Libby Schaaf   
   was called out by the Justice Department in 2018 after she   
   publicly tipped off the immigrant community about an ICE raid   
   less than 24 hours before it began. Schaaf was taken to task   
   over her decision and critics claimed her actions amounted to   
   obstruction of justice. She defended herself and said she did   
   not learn about the raid through government, but instead through   
   "multiple credible sources."   
         
      
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