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San Francisco Shooting Shows Tension Between Immigration and Local Police

The man known to San Francisco law enforcement as Francisco Sanchez has been thrust into a national debate on immigration policy.

Federal authorities give his real name as Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate. But the Mexican national has also traced a path through the U.S. immigration system and criminal courts for nearly a quarter of a century as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez and Juan Jose Dominguez de la Parra.

 

He has worked as an itinerant laborer in four states. Five times, he was deported. Each time he returned.

Among his criminal convictions — the most recent in 1997 — are at least four felonies for possessing heroin and manufacturing narcotics and a misdemeanor conviction for inhaling toxic vapors, federal records show. He has also been charged numerous times with felonies for illegally entering the U.S. after being removed.

And in recent days, the man known to San Francisco law enforcement as simply Francisco Sanchez has been thrust into a national debate on immigration policy.

 

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.
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