San Francisco IS PAID! to Fight Border Crime?

How can that be? San Francisco is a sanctuary city. If anything, San Francisco should be paid by illegals for accommodating border crime.

San Francisco's $3.7 million federal grant to help fight border crime in 2006 was the largest awarded to any county in four states bordering Mexico, according to a federal audit that found the city was not entitled to any of the funds.

City officials have not explained why a city 500 miles from the state's southern border would have prosecuted more than 2,000 cases for the federal government that were related to drug gangs and crimes near the border in a three-year period.

So far, Mayor Gavin Newsom and DA Kamala Harris have not responded to the charges. Maybe their mouths are full of cookies they have been pilfering from the cookie jar.

The audit, which was released this week and challenged all $5.4 million that the city received from 2004 to 2006, raises questions about the basis for the city's request for funding under the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative.

Federal officials who challenged San Francisco's grants were told that the city simply made an "estimate" of the number of cases it handled on behalf of the federal government, the audit found. In a footnote, the audit quoted city officials as saying that the grant requests were not based on "actual cases."

Federal officials also suggested in the audit that San Francisco's apparently inflated grant requests robbed other jurisdictions of money that was supposed to help them fight drugs and crime on the federal government's behalf.

Think of the audacity. San Franciscans sneer at America, the U.S. military, the laws passed by Congress and refuse to cooperate with the federal government in virtually every respect. Meanwhile, there is no keeping the city of San Francisco from tapping the U.S. Treasury for undeserved taxpayer dollars.

Also: Jawa Report