'Trump’s puppet': A Calif. Republican is the enforcer behind deadly ICE raids

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 30, 2025 | By Anabel Sosa

[artichokegrower]

When labor leader David Huerta was arrested last month during a high-profile anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Los Angeles, Democrats rushed to denounce his detention.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California
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[artichokegrower]

Right before he resigned to accept the U.S. attorney appointment, Essayli had introduced another bill that fit squarely within Trump’s culture war: a proposal to ban transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ and women’s sports. Essayli defended the parental notification idea, calling it “simple and straightforward” to require a parent to be notified if a child begins requesting to be called by a different pronoun or to use facilities, like bathrooms, for a different gender

Common sense coming to California

[Red Badger]

Source is SF Gate, the SF Chronicle................

[Trump20162020]

"Deadly ICE raids"
"Deadly rally in Charlottesville, VA"
"Deadly Capitol riot"

I'm starting to notice a pattern in the press's rhetoric.

[Dr. Sivana]

A puppet has no will of its own. This guy is more of a willful collaborator. All the better.

[libh8er]

We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.

[Robert DeLong]

Common sense coming to California

Nothing but a dreamer

[Macoozie]

“We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.”

Post of the day!!

[Wuli]

We get it. The SF Gate rag and it’s readers don t like our aggressive immigration law enforcement. Tough.

[null and void]

'Trump’s puppet':

Usually such heavy-handed bias comes after the headline...

[null and void]

Stolen for my new tagline!

[TonyM]

Give that man a medal, and a cigar!

[kiryandil]

[gibsonguy]

“the enforcer behind deadly ICE raids”

Well I would SF “news” outlets to be among the worst in the world and they definitely exceed my expectations.

[SteveH]

Anabel Sosa
SENIOR CALIFORNIA POLITICS REPORTER

Anabel Sosa is the senior California politics reporter at SFGATE. She previously covered the statehouse and elections for the Los Angeles Times. She has a masters degree in investigative journalism from UC Berkeley. You can reach her at anabel.sosa@sfgate.com.

[Danie_2023]

“”I’m starting to notice a pattern in the press’s rhetoric.””

Odd, isn’t it. The lamestream press never ever describes the daily deaths in places like New York and Chicago as “deadly”. Wonder why. Could it be... that some deaths are more deadly than other deaths?

[bobbo666]

Don’t hold yer breathe. 99% of the time when favorable news like this is posted (anywhere) it is used as a signal for the commie trash to get together and destroy it.

CaCaLand is, after all, a one-party communist state. Has been for years. It will get better around the same time that pedo priests in the Catholic church are excommunicated and turned over to secular authorities.

[Elsie]

deadly?

[Colorado Doug]

I love these Feel Good articles. They certainly did have a lot of nice things to say about Bill Essayli.