{"id":75387,"date":"2015-09-25T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75387"},"modified":"2015-09-25T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:05:24","slug":"father-of-woman-killed-by-illegal-immigrant-in-san-francisco-shares-her-heartbreaking-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75387","title":{"rendered":"Father of Woman Killed by Illegal Immigrant in San Francisco Shares Her Heartbreaking Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/07\/21\/father-of-woman-killed-by-illegal-immigrant-in-san-francisco-shares-her-heartbreaking-last-words\/\">TheBlaze.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHelp me, dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are the last words Jim Steinle said he heard from his daughter Kate before police say she was fatally shot by Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who had already been deported several times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, a shot rang out, Kate fell and looked up at me and said, \u2018Help me, dad,\u2019\u201d Steinle said in an emotional testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. \u201cThose were the last words I will ever hear from my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steinle described his daughter as \u201ca good citizen of the United States of America\u201d  who loved to travel the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately due to disjointed laws and basic incompetence on many levels, the U.S. has suffered a self-inflicted wound in the murder of our daughter by the hand of a person that should have never been on the streets of this country,\u201d Steinle said.<\/p>\n<p>Steinle, who is advocating for immigration reform, said it\u2019s \u201cunbelievable\u201d that so many Americans have died at the hands of undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d be proud to see Kate\u2019s name associated with some of this new legislation,\u201d he said. \u201cWe feel if Kate\u2019s law saves one daughter, one son, a mother, a father, Kate\u2019s death won\u2019t be in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate\u2019s brother, Brad Steinle, also slammed San Francisco\u2019s sanctuary policies during an interview with Fox News last week.<\/p>\n<p>Kate was 32-years-old when she died.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1ZPmnsS3MQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is responsible for the illegal immigrant crime wave? Many parties, but the Jewish establishment in America certainly holds a large part of the blood guilt. The blood of Kate Steinle falls on Jewish immigration activists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/cover_story\/article\/jewish_values_at_heart_of_immigration_reform\">Jewish values at heart of immigration reform<\/a><br \/>\nby Rachel Heller Zaimont<br \/>\nPosted on Feb. 12, 2014 at 11:31 am<\/p>\n<p>Last May, an unusual delegation arrived at the State Capitol building in Sacramento: a contingent of some 50 Reform Jews, clergy and lay leaders, hailing from congregations across California. They had come to campaign for the Trust Act, a bill designed to limit deportations of undocumented immigrants in the state. A few months after their visit, Gov. Jerry Brown would sign the Trust Act into law as part of a sweeping October push for immigration reform. But that wasn\u2019t assured at the time.<br \/>\nThe bill had just passed through the California Assembly and was primed for review by the State Senate during the summer. Questions swirled: Were enough senators on board to vote in its favor? Was the language strong enough? Brown had vetoed a previous version of the Trust Act in 2012 \u2014 was this edition something he would sign?<br \/>\nRabbi Larry Raphael, of Congregation Sherith Israel, and several other San Francisco rabbis stood in a corridor discussing these concerns with an aide to state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), when an assemblyman walked by. He noticed the kippot worn by a few in the group and caught the drift of their conversation. \u201cYou\u2019re here about the Trust Act?\u201d the assemblyman asked. The clergy confirmed.<br \/>\n\u201cIs immigration a Jewish issue?\u201d he pressed skeptically.<br \/>\nRaphael answered, \u201cWe believe it is.\u201d<br \/>\nIt was a moment of affirmation in a historic campaign that united more than 1,000 Reform Jews throughout California in political advocacy for the better part of 2013. The Jewish campaign for the Trust Act coalesced under the banner of Reform CA, a new statewide initiative of the Reform movement aiming to reinvigorate social justice in synagogues and connect those small-scale pockets of energy to spur large-scale political change. The initiative\u2019s first year was marked by trial and error, perseverance and ultimate triumph \u2014 along with unprecedented collaboration between congregations and clergy on what some might consider an unlikely Jewish cause.<br \/>\nThe Trust Act, which took effect  Jan. 1, prohibits local law enforcement from holding undocumented immigrants for deportation in California unless they have committed a serious felony. Previously, those who had committed minor offenses could be detained for deportation, leading to a strained relationship with authorities in immigrant communities and the separation of parents from children with legal status.<br \/>\n\u201cThis wasn\u2019t an obvious issue,\u201d said Rabbi Stephanie Kolin, co-director of Just Congregations, the community-organizing arm of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and lead organizer of Reform CA. \u201cBut we share this state. We will partner with our brothers and sisters across lines of race, class and faith to address the pain that we all share when this system is so broken.\u201d<br \/>\nThe seeds for this partnership were planted when Kolin moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to open the West Coast office of Just Congregations. She began working with synagogues across the Southland to help them kick-start social action programs, tackling local issues of injustice on a grass-roots level. But she found that many Southern California rabbis had an appetite to make bigger change than they could muster individually. And she started to understand the power of a crucial idea: \u201cTogether,\u201d she said, \u201cwe are more powerful than we are when we stand alone.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;For some rabbis and congregants, the issue was more immediate. Bruce Corwin, chairman and CEO of Metropolitan Theatres Corp. and a member of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, said he has had employees rounded up and deported during ICE raids. \u201cThey\u2019re just scared to death,\u201d Corwin said. \u201cA lot of parents have been separated from their families. It\u2019s a terrible thing that happens in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;On Tisha B\u2019Av, a holiday of typically low attendance in Reform congregations, about 100 members from 10 Los Angeles synagogues gathered at Leo Baeck\u2019s outdoor chapel to hear a teaching on how the destruction of the Temple mirrors the destruction of what is sacred to immigrants today. HUC-JIR professor Rabbi Lewis Barth challenged attendees to ponder: If they \u2014 of influence and sway \u2014 don\u2019t access justice for their community, how can those on the fringes of society do so?<\/p>\n<p>During the High Holy Days, dozens of rabbis across the state preached about immigration reform in their sermons, asking congregants to call the governor\u2019s office to urge him to sign the bill. Simonds reminded University Synagogue\u2019s young professionals\u2019 group that Jews have felt the hand of oppression, and they now had the power to transform it into a hand of welcome. A number of congregants took out their phones right there and wrote notes to call Brown\u2019s office, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;At Leo Baeck, Rabbi Ken Chasen\u2019s preaching led to another unexpected windfall. The day after Rosh Hashanah, an influential congregant set up a personal phone call between Chasen and the governor. Chasen told Brown that during the High Holy Days, when sermons usually take on worldly issues, Reform rabbis across California were making immigration their focus. \u201cThey weren\u2019t mobilizing around speaking about Israel, or Iran,\u201d Chasen said. \u201cWhat was speaking to them was this issue of immigration within our state. This issue was deeply embedded within the hearts and souls of Jewish Californians.\u201d<br \/>\nBrown told Chasen he hadn\u2019t realized immigration was so important to Jewish constituents and thanked him for the call.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you start on a campaign of this sort, you just don\u2019t know which is the moment that might lead to the greatest amount of access, the greatest amount of power, the greatest amount of influence,\u201d Chasen said. \u201cThe narrative that unfolded was one that we could never have predicted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing in the Jewish Journal article questions whether this support for illegal immigration is a good idea, but the commenters do:<\/p>\n<p>* So it&#8217;s all your fault! Darn, I think I need to turn into a jew hater now.<\/p>\n<p>* Israel has become deportation central with a fence system that jewish, including rabbis, won&#8217;t allow us to have. We should apply the Israeli model on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>* Why do all these `holy` jews support deportations and walls for Israel but not the US? These jews are all anti American hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>* Deportation is an important part of enforcement of immigration laws. If illegal immigrants are allowed to remain in the USA and government relies on self deportation it sends the message that illegal immigration is ok. Illegal immigration is not ok and contrary to Jewish values. Illegal immigration devalues labor in an already extremely bad environment where most Americans are living hand to mouth or worse. The Torah and Talmud call for a society where work allows people to have a decent life. By flooding the job market even more with illegal immigrants both illegal workers and illegal immigrants are led to work in abysmal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>* Kol hakavod to these Reform Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The verse that occurs most often in the Torah (36 times) is some variation of, be kind to the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* But where in the Torah does it talk about deportations? The is a difference between being kind to a stranger and not having law. Immigration laws protect working people&#8211;immigrants and natives alike&#8211;how is it kind to anyone except exploiting businesses to allow illegal immigrants to stay in this economy only to drive the labor market further down when most Americans are living hand to mouth or worse. Both Torah and Talmud support a having a labor market where people can live decently. Allowing illegal immigrants to stay in this economy is against this value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TheBlaze.com: \u201cHelp me, dad.\u201d Those are the last words Jim Steinle said he heard from his daughter Kate before police say she was fatally shot by Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant who had already been deported several times. \u201cSuddenly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75387"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75396,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75387\/revisions\/75396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}