CNN Guest on Killing of Kate Steinle: ‘Mistake, Not a Norm’

‘This is a mistake, not a norm’

PEREIRA: “Let me bring in a statement from the Mayor of San Francisco. Ed Lee said, ‘Let me be clear: San Francisco’s Sanctuary City Policy protects residents regardless of immigration status and is not intended to protect repeat, serious and violent felons.’ Aren't these kind of sanctuary laws Ana Maria allowing felons of this type to slip through the cracks?”

SALAZAR: “They would slip through the cracks I would say almost in any other city. When you have -- when you have these types of individuals and I say this very carefully because this case is being used to define what the -- or people are looking, like Donald Trump, to try to define what should be U.S. immigration policy regarding 11 million undocumented people who live in the United States right now. I’m just talking about the Mexican population. The problem is with these types cases, is that clearly a mistake was made. This is a mistake, not the norm and I -- you know, when you look around and look at the numbers and we have been talking about -- let me just finish. When you look at the numbers, clearly the undocumented population in the United States is much less likely to commit a crime. That’s the data. I mean that’s – this is a horrible case.” [Crosstalk]

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