The State - News from Dec. 9, 1985

Five San Francisco city supervisors said they will move to give official “sanctuary” status to the city, which has become home for an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees. The proposed legislation would forbid police, health, school and social service agencies from helping federal immigration authorities investigate and arrest Central American refugees. “We want to be real clear about this. We’re looking at people who cannot go back home because if they do, they are killed,” said Supervisor Nancy Walker. The sanctuary movement that has won official backing in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City and several other cites won’t prevent the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from deporting illegal aliens, said Deputy INS District Director Arthur Shanks in San Francisco. He called the effort a “waste of time.”