Exclusive | Congress opens investigations into San Francisco, San Diego's 'sanctuary city' policies

San Francisco and San Diego, two of California’s largest sanctuary cities, are under federal investigation for the alleged actions of local officials who stonewalled ICE and let criminal migrants walk free, The California Post has learned.Four bombshell letters — sent out Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee — demanded records from police and sheriff’s departments in San Francisco and San Diego as President Trump’s second administration escalates its crackdown on deep-blue sanctuary cities.The harshest spotlight could fall on San Francisco, the famously liberal Bay Area city that has been at the center of the national sanctuary city fight for decades after adopting a refuge ordinance in 1989.In a letter to San Francisco Police Chief Chief Derrick Lew, Reps.Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) accused San Francisco law enforcement of failing to notify federal immigration officials of detainers involving “criminal aliens,” and they demanded records going back to the beginning of 2024. “In practice, San Francisco’s pro-illegal alien policies ensure dangerous criminals are released from SFPD’s custody — or never apprehended by SFPD at all — and are free to reoffend,” the lawmakers wrote.The letter to Miyamoto was even more pointed, accusing San Francisco’s sheriff of defending the city’s sanctuary policies “even when confronted by the dangerous effects” of them. The committee cited Miyamoto’s past statement that “out of thousands of requests for detention” from ICE, his office had “only honored one.”The letter even went so far as to accuse Miyamoto’s office of blocking the feds from interviewing David DePape, a Canadian national who bludgeoned then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in a October 2022 hammer attack at the couple’s home.“Despite your claim that California’s and San Francisco’s pro-illegal alien laws ‘were created to uphold justice, not to shield those who threaten public safety,’ sanc...