Supes Vote to Protect Immigrant Youth

Since July 2008, law enforcement in San Francisco has been required to report suspected undocumented youth to Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon arrest for felony charges, without going through due process. The new legislation would not report the youth until convicted. Mayor Gavin Newsom opposes the change.

“This is really for our youth, for our kids,” Supervisor David Campos, who initiated the legislation, said to a cheering crowd outside the chamber after the vote. “They deserve nothing less than full equality. Just because you're undocumented does not mean you're not a person according to the United States Constitution.”

Hundreds came out to the Board of Supervisors meeting to witness the vote and many were sent to overflow rooms. More than half the people in the main chamber were students from Mission and Lincoln high schools, many wearing stickers reading, “Keep families together” and “Due process for youth.”

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