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   San Francisco, long celebrated as a sanctuary city for immigrants, is now   
   deporting migrants arrested in drug busts as it struggles to fight its   
   fentanyl crisis killing hundreds every year, according to a new report.   
      
   Since last year, when fentanyl killed a record-breaking 656 people, more   
   than 100 individuals have been charged as part of a federal sweep in San   
   Francisco aimed at illegal drug sales — with most of the felons identified   
   as undocumented migrants who get handed over to US Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement (ICE), Bloomberg reported.   
      
   “For people who are willing to sell poison that is killing people, there’s   
   no protection for you. There’s no sanctuary for you,” Mayor London Breed   
   told the outlet.   
      
   “Fentanyl is such a deadly drug. It requires that we take more extreme   
   measures,” she added.   
      
   The crackdown on migrant felons was kicked off by Ismail Ramsey, the Biden   
   administration’s top prosecutor in Northern California.   
      
   When he took over in 2023, Ramsey directed his office to focus on low-   
   level dealers and put an end to the “revolving door” system that allowed   
   criminals back out on the streets after being arrested.   
      
   The key to his strategy lies in taking up low-level fentanyl or meth   
   cases, offering the migrant defendants’ plea deals with a one-day extended   
   sentence, and using that final day in custody to hand the felons over to   
   ICE for deportation proceedings, according to Bloomberg.   
      
   Since the program’s implementation, many migrants have been caught and are   
   set to be deported, including a 50-year-old Honduran man arrested in July   
   for selling $5 worth of meth, according to records from Ramsey’s office.   
      
   Critics of the program have accused San Francisco’s top prosecutor of   
   using immigrants as a scapegoat, with his office allegedly more concerned   
   about seeing the deportations go through than actually prosecuting the   
   crimes.   
      
   Ramsey, however, insists the strategy is more about deterrence rather than   
   deportations.   
      
   “It is not immigration consequences, but the threat of a potentially long   
   federal sentence,” he told Bloomberg. “This is a real consequence to drug   
   dealers that changes the calculus regarding whether they want to return.”   
      
   San Francisco officials appear to be committed to the strategy to tackle   
   the opioid pandemic after last year’s record-breaking 656 deaths, a 43%   
   increase from 2022, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.   
      
   The strategy may be working as the medical examiner’s latest report, filed   
   in July, found that 293 people died of a fentanyl overdose since January,   
   a drop from the previous year.   
      
   The city’s total accidental overdose deaths remains high, with the   
   officials estimating 412 deaths between January and July.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/sanctuary-city-san-francisco-   
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