On Wednesday evening, Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old resident of San Francisco, was shot dead as she strolled with her father on a pier popular with tourists and locals alike . She was apparently killed by a previously deported illegal alien, Francisco Sanchez, who was arrested an hour later thanks to pictures snapped by onlookers.

The video report below includes the fact that the accused was an illegal alien “on probation” in Texas who had been “deported to Mexico several times” and whose rap sheet includes aggravated assault — as well as an interview with the victim’s heartbroken brother.

There is plenty of diverse violence in San Francisco, particularly in the Hispanic Mission district, but it rarely happens in popular tourist spots. Tourism-connected businesses are probably urging the mayor to Do Something to make San Francisco seem safe. Visitors to the city spent $10.67 billion in 2014 and tourism is a top industry. Tourists don’t like to see a daylight random murder in a spot they have visited.

San Francisco has been energetically friendly to illegal aliens for years. In 2008, Mayor Gavin Newsom spent $83,000 to promote city benefits for illegal aliens. Criminal aliens who could pass for juveniles were coddled with expensive programs, like placement in a cushy San Bernardino group home.

Making criminal aliens feel comfortable in San Francisco has led to terrible crimes, in particular the triple murder of Tony Bologna and his two sons in 2008, who were mistaken for fellow gangsters by Edwin Ramos, a previously arrested but not deported criminal alien.

But even horrors like the Bologna killing have not slapped San Francisco into sensible policies to protect public safety. Reports in recent hours reveal that Francisco Sanchez (pictured) had been deported to Mexico five times, and “should have been deported.”

But it’s not like the feds are any better at protecting the public than the city — Obama stands strong with San Francisco against law and borders. DHS released 30,000 criminal aliens to American streets in 2014 and 36,000 the year before that.

We can expect pointed fingers between the feds and San Francisco about who is responsible for this completely preventable crime. Not that anything will change. Obama amnesties everyone.