They didn't want the Ramos case, and the associated "sanctuary city" issues, casting any negative light on their careers.

From Radio Derb March 16, 2012

The trial of Edwin Ramos. I mentioned Edwin Ramos up there in my 2008 broadcast, and promised you a follow-up. OK, Edwin Ramos.

Edwin Ramos is a native and citizen of El Salvador in Central America, which is not quite as much of a basket case country as Afghanistan, considerably thanks to remittances from Salvadorans in the U.S.A. — seventeen percent of El Salvador's GDP. The country didn't suit Ramos, though, so in 2000, at age 13, he came here to join his mother, a refugee from El Salvador's civil war that ended in 1992. Ramos came here under "Temporary Protected Status" on a ten-year visa. I didn't know that at the time of my 2008 broadcast. Nobody knew it; it only came out a couple of years later. Along with everyone else, I assumed he was illegal.

Once here, Ramos promptly joined the MS-13 street gang and embarked on a criminal career.

In 2003 he was convicted of assault and gang membership. He was deportable, that visa notwithstanding. A non-citizen who commits crimes is always deportable, whether present here legally or illegally. However, Ramos was not deported. After being released on probation, he mugged a pregnant woman, got off the hook again with probation, and went back to the streets. Again, no deportation, though he was now doubly liable.

In March 2008 Edwin Ramos was arrested as a suspect in the gang murder of two young citizens, but was released for lack of evidence. This time, probation officials did contact ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as Ramos was by now an adult offender. ICE did nothing.

Three months later, in June of 2008, looking for revenge after a gang buddy had been shot, Ramos found himself cut off in a narrow street by another vehicle. Either mistaking the occupants for gang enemies, or just from road rage, Ramos shot dead the other driver, American citizen Tony Bologna. For good measure he also shot dead Mr Bologna's two sons, Michael, age 20, and Matthew, 16. Mr Bologna's third son, Christopher (though "Andrew" in some of the news stories, I don't know why), age 18, was unhurt. Mr Bologna's wife Danielle had to hear the news that she had gone from having a husband and three fine sons to having just one son. (She also has a much younger daughter, Lucia.)

In the brouhaha that followed, it came out that San Francisco's juvenile justice system had been bending over backwards to prevent non-citizen juvenile offenders from coming to the attention of federal authorities. Mrs Bologna tried to sue the city on the grounds that their sanctuary policy had let Ramos loose to kill her menfolk; but the city, which might at least have offered the poor widow a settlement, fought tooth and nail, and won in superior court, without even offering her an apology. What does the grief of a bereaved citizen matter, against the importance of coddling immigrant gang-bangers?

Well, Edwin Ramos is now on trial for the murder of Tony Bologna and his two sons, after a three and a half years' delay. What took so long?

That's an interesting question. Part of the answer is politics: Both the D.A. and the lead prosecutor were up for election to higher positions in the 2010 cycle. They didn't want the Ramos case, and the associated "sanctuary city" issues, casting any negative light on their careers.

There was also the matter of a big federal racketeering case against 29 members of Edwin Ramos's MS-13 affiliate, tried last year. Ramos himself was not one of the accused, leading to suspicions that the feds had been "running" him to get leads. That, the suspicious minds said, was why he'd been let go by ICE after that shooting incident three months before the Bologna murders. (ICE itself says there was a documentation foul-up.)

Whatever the truth of that, the fact remains that three decades of sloppy unconcern with who's getting into our country and being allowed to stay, has given us a hideous alien gang problem that cost the lives of Danielle's husband and sons. As the Ramos trial came up, in fact, Danielle and her surviving kids had to leave San Francisco and go into witness protection because of rumors that MS-13 was going to silence them. Law-abiding citizens bereaved by alien criminals are driven into witness protection, parted from their friends and neighbors, while those criminals run free.

This is the U.S.A. in the year a.d. 2012. We are the suckers of the world and the dupes of the age, the great fools of all time; handing over our lovely country to alien psychopaths while sending our sons to fight and die on behalf of high-living embezzlers who regard us with scorn and contempt. This is us, this is the U.S.A.: laughing-stock of all the world's crooks and hustlers.