On July 1st of last year, Kate Steinle was out with her parents on Pier 14 in San Francisco when she was shot and killed by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. Sanchez was illegally in the United States, a chronic 'undocumented worker' who had been deported 5 times. You know, the border has never been more secure, so the administration has said on multiple occasions. To make matters worse, San Francisco had declined to transfer Sanchez to ICE in March 2015 because San Francisco is a sanctuary city. Sanchez only had 7 felony convictions. No big deal, right? And one wonders why Trump gets support for his border wall.
The Steinle story got a lot of press but the Woodburn triple homicide is getting a lot less press. Yes, now it is Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez who killed three and wounded one in Woodburn, Oregon. Where Sanchez had been deported 5 times since 1994, Gonzalez had been deported 6 times since 2003! You know, the border has never been more secure.
Why has the press been relatively quiet on this 'mass shooting?' Simple. It isn't easily converted into a call for gun control. If it can't fit into the gun control narrative, the press is only too happy to ignore it. That it plays into Trump's calls for more border security and deporting illegals doesn't help either.
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