SAN FRANCISCO—Some 200 supporters of immigrant rights protested a rightist action here at the Civic Center July 30.

Shouting “Racists, go away” and “Sí se puede” (Yes, we can), supporters of legalization for undocumented immigrants far outnumbered the dozen people who backed the Minuteman Project’s call for people to rally at City Hall.

Waving U.S. flags and in one case wearing a U.S. Border Patrol T-shirt, the rightist Minutemen supporters carried signs saying “Cut all funding to sanctuary cities” and “Sanctuary city mayors are U.S. traitors.”

The action was called after a sensationalized series of articles appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle decrying what has been the city’s practice, under its “sanctuary city” policies, of not turning in for deportation undocumented youth who are arrested by city cops. The Democratic administration of Mayor Gavin Newsom recently reversed its policy. Now undocumented youth charged with felonies are handed over to immigration cops.

—JOEL BRITTON

 
 
 
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