San Francisco Shooting, New Federal Policy Put Pressure on 'Sanctuary Cities'

Stateline: Two things happened July 1 to pressure hundreds of cities and counties to rethink their policies limiting cooperation with federal deportation requests.

One was the shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle, allegedly killed on a San Francisco pier by a Mexican immigrant with seven felony convictions who had been deported from the U.S. five times. County officials ignored a request by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold him for possible deportation.

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