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This undated file booking photo provided by the San Francisco Police Department shows Jose Ines Garcia Zarate. A California federal judge on Monday, June 6, 2022, sentenced the Mexican national who shot a woman along a San Francisco pier to the seven years he's already spent in jail. The sentence brings to a legal close a tragedy that ignited a national firestorm over immigration, crime and sanctuary cities such as San Francisco. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

Illegal immigrant sentenced to time served in Kate Steinle killing

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This undated file booking photo provided by the San Francisco Police Department shows Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate. Garcia-Zarate, acquitted of murder in the 2015 fatal shooting of a woman on a San Francisco pier that became a national flashpoint over immigration pleaded guilty Monday, March 14, 2022, to federal gun charges. Garcia-Zarate entered his plea nearly seven years after shooting Kate Steinle on July 1, 2015, while she walked on a crowded pier. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)

Illegal immigrant in Kate Steinle sanctuary city killing pleads guilty to weapons charges

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Black Lives Matter is the Kate Steinle of 2020

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, a homeless undocumented immigrant acquitted of killing Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier, was scheduled to be sentenced on a lesser gun charge Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

For Kate Steinle, the knife to the back twists harder

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Kate Steinle’s parents can’t sue San Francisco, 9th Circuit Court rules

By Sudhin Thanawala - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2015, photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a lawsuit the parents of Kate Steinle filed against San Francisco for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport a man later charged with killing Steinle. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Monday, March 25, 2019, that the city's non-cooperation policy with federal immigration officials broke no federal, state or local laws. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) **FILE**

Court: San Francisco can’t be sued over immigrant shooting

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in July 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Mollie Tibbetts’ tragic fate is the result of a porous southern border that must be secured

By Tammy Bruce

This July 17, 2015, file photo shows flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle displayed at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco, Calif. The bullet that killed Kate Steinle two years ago ricocheted off the ground about 100 yards away before hitting her in the back and later launching a criminal case at the center of a national immigration debate. A San Francisco police officer who helped supervise the investigation testified about the bullet’s trajectory Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 at Zarate's trial. (Paul Chinn /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File) **FILE**

UC San Diego students file complaint, tear down ‘racist’ pictures of Kate Steinle

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate is led into the courtroom for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

Alternate juror: Steinle shooting jury was right to acquit

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

Craig Warner of Palo Alto, Calif., leaves a bell at a memorial site for Kate Steinle on Pier 14 Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in San Francisco. In this fiercely liberal city, city leaders remained attached to San Francisco's sanctuary city status despite a not guilty verdict in a killing that sparked feverish immigration debates because the man who fired the gun was in the country illegally after being deported five times. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

EDITORIAL: Jury’s verdict in Kate Steinle case shows danger of sanctuary cities

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Alex Bastian, Deputy Chief of Staff with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office answers questions after a verdict was reached in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the killing of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier that touched off a national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Kate Steinle’s killer should’ve been found guilty of manslaughter, at least

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 30, 2017 file photo, Jim Steinle, center, and Liz Sullivan, right, the parents of Kate Steinle, walk to a courtroom for closing arguments in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate accused of killing their daughter, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

How the Kate Steinle case became an immigration flashpoint

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In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

The Latest: San Francisco criticized after jury verdict

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FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Jurors ended their fifth day of deliberations Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, without reaching a verdict in the murder trial that sparked a national debate over immigration policy. Jurors are deciding whether Garcia Zarate meant to shoot Steinle in 2015 or if they believe his claim that the the shooting was accidental. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

DOJ demands custody of Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, Kate Steinle killer

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

DOJ considering federal charges against illegal immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle case

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 6, 2015 file photo, Father Cameron Faller, right, and Julio Escobar, of Restorative Justice Ministry, conduct a vigil for Kathryn Steinle on Pier 14 in San Francisco. A jury has reached a verdict Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in the trial of Mexican man at center of immigration debate in the San Francisco pier shooting. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach, File)

Jury acquits Mexican man in San Francisco pier killing

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Jurors ended their fifth day of deliberations Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, without reaching a verdict in the murder trial that sparked a national debate over immigration policy. Jurors are deciding whether Garcia Zarate meant to shoot Steinle in 2015 or if they believe his claim that the the shooting was accidental. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

The Latest: Trump: ‘Disgraceful verdict’ in pier shooting

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Kate Steinle was killed on Pier 14 in San Francisco while walking with her father. A jury on Thursday found the illegal immigrant who shot her not guilty of murder. (Associated Press/File)

Jose Garcia Zarate Not guilty of homicide charges Kate Steinle shooting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, right, is led into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. Jurors ended their fifth day of deliberations Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, without reaching a verdict in the murder trial that sparked a national debate over immigration policy. Jurors are deciding whether Garcia Zarate meant to shoot Steinle in 2015 or if they believe his claim that the the shooting was accidental. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool, File)

San Francisco pier shooting jury ends Day 5 without verdict

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2015 file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Attorneys were beginning their final arguments Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, in the trial of Zarate, accused of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that touched off a national immigration debate. The trial resumed Monday morning with instructions to the jury reminding them not to read newspapers or view social media while they are considering the case. (Paul Chinn /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

No verdict yet in San Francisco pier killing as jury breaks

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press