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San Francisco is not a sovereign state: It can't "send" US residents anywhere, they're free to go where they will. Similarly, SF can offer whatever "fair share
by twoodfin 10y ago
San Francisco is not a sovereign state: It can't "send" US residents anywhere, they're free to go where they will.
Similarly, SF can offer whatever "fair share" it likes, but can't force other cities to do the same.
- tomjen3 10y agoCouldn't SF enact a law to make it illegal to sleep on the streets? To not give an address to the police (could be a hotel room, etc), when asked? Then make a deal with some other place that has lots of cheap land that they handle the people who gets arrested for this (for a fee), which is still cheaper than rent in SF.
- twoodfin 10y agoPart a) is probably fine (though I am ignorant of the latest jurisprudence on what you can and cannot be required to tell police officers). I am certain that part b) is illegal. SF is free to arrest people locally for local crimes, but they can't 'extradite' those arrested to other states: If you're charged with a crime, it's your constitutional right to be tried "by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed"[1]. [1] http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment6.html http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment6.html
- dragonwriter 10y agoAfter conviction, they could ship them off to somewhere else for whatever punishment they were sentenced to; alternatively, they could just agree to drop the charges after arrest in return for them accepting one-way bus tickets. Actually, something like the latter (with or without formal arrest) has happened a lot with the homeless and/or mentally ill (and, especially, the mentally ill homeless.) Though, IIRC, SF has more frequently been cited as a destination than a source of those types of maneuvers.