Faced with a deepening emergency, city leaders have quietly embraced a controversial tactic to combat the epidemic: deportation. Those prosecuted under the program are often given a stark choice between risking lengthy prison sentences or pleading guilty, which avoids major prison time and frequently leads them to face deportation proceedings.
For people who are willing to sell poison that is killing people, there's no protection for you. There's no sanctuary for you, Mayor London Breed said. Fentanyl is such a deadly drug. It requires that we take more extreme measures.
The crackdown in a liberal bastion shows just how deeply fentanyl has entrenched itself in San Francisco and exacerbated some of the tech hub's most vexing problems, from homelessness to downtown revival.
Fairly or not, San Francisco has emerged as one of the most visible examples of the US fentanyl emergency that's now centered on the West Coast, with deaths from synthetic opioids soaring last year.
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