When Kate Steinle was killed on a San Francisco pier by a bullet from a semi-automatic gun that went off in the hands of a man who was illegally in the country, her death became a rallying cry for conservatives who wanted better enforcement of immigration laws. Then-President Donald J. Trump assailed a jury's verdict acquitting Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate on all but one of the charges, calling it "disgraceful."
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