They say that success has 1000 fathers, while failure is an orphan. In the case of José Ines García Zarate, failure has a thousand fathers.
García Zarate is an illegal alien who was deported to Mexico five times. He had already been convicted of seven felonies when he killed Kate Steinle. His reentry into the United States was undoubtedly facilitated by “Coyotes” who spirited him across the border without detection from law enforcement. And when he got to San Francisco, law enforcement screwed up at every level, no doubt about it.
But it is important to focus on García Zarate’s motives for being in San Francisco in the first place – and he made his motives clear: San Francisco is a “sanctuary city.” That’s why he went there.
So the sanctuary city policy is a linchpin in the chain of causation that ended with Kate Steinle’s death. No sanctuary, no José, no killing.
San Francisco’s radical politicians, agitators, left-wing fanatics, and snotty liberals who played a role in declaring San Francisco sanctuary city status all share the blame for Kate Steinle’s death. The simple law of cause and effect cannot be denied. Inviting criminals like García Zarate to enjoy untouched the city’s hospitality inevitably invites the crimes they commit as well.
So there’s a crowd of usual suspects, no surprise. But what does surprise is the role in Kate Steinle’s killing played by what can only be called a strange bedfellow of San Francisco’s chic radical left: California’s Catholic bishops, and specifically San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
A Pattern Of Politicized Prelates
To explain this, we turn to the backstory – an all too familiar pattern of politicized bishops toning down…