Deaths caused by Democrats hustling Latino votes

John Kass:

You could say the testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on violence committed by immigrants here illegally was heartbreaking.

But the killings are made all the worse by federal immigration law that is ignored so Democratic Party pols can hustle Latino votes through so-called sanctuary city policies.

I could pretty that up some, but that's what it is. It isn't death by politics, exactly. But politics has blood on its hands.

"There was a lot of emotion in there," Brian McCann, brother of a Chicago victim, told me over the phone after his testimony on Tuesday.

"It's been a few years for me. But others are just going through it," he said. "It's rough. Sitting there next to them, well, it was rough."

The wife of a police officer whose husband was killed gave testimony. So did a mom whose son was killed and set on fire. The uncle of a young man shot to death for cigarettes told his story. And the father of Katie Steinle had his say.

It is Katie's killing that has reignited the debate over immigration and the sanctuary city movement.

She was allegedly shot to death by Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, here illegally, a seven-time felon who'd been deported to Mexico five times before. He'd been in the custody of the San Francisco sheriff on a marijuana charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials wanted him held. But San Francisco is a sanctuary city, and the local sheriff ignored those requests and released him in April. Now the sheriff is blaming the feds.
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Kass also gives the story of a Chicago may killed by an alleged Mexican drunk driver who had a previous DUI convictions who was released on bond and is believed to have fled to Mexico.  There were no acts of love by the illegal alien killers in these stories.

Kass is right that these people were killed because Democrats have been pandering to the Hispanic vote instead of doing their job on immigration enforcement.