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**Inside California Politics: June 28, 2025** → **California Politics Unpacked: June 28, 2025** Let me know if you’d like more variations!

**Inside California Politics: June 28, 2025**  
→ **California Politics Unpacked: June 28, 2025**  

Let me know if you’d like more variations!

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli joined Inside California Politics this week to discuss the ongoing immigration enforcement operations in Southern California.

Essayli, who served in the California State Assembly prior to his appointment, vigorously defended President Donald Trump’s immigration policies amid growing concern about who is being targeted. An L.A. Times report released this week suggests a majority of the immigrants who were arrested in Los Angeles in early June were not convicted criminals. Essayli said California’s sanctuary state law is to blame.

“In every other state, we can go into a county jail, we can screen criminals for their immigration status, and we can take them directly from jail and deport them,” Essayli said. “We can’t do any of that in the state of California. So we have to go out into the community and we have to do broad immigration enforcement operations. And when we do that, yes, absolutely. People without criminal histories are going to get swept up in those operations.”

Essayli also vowed to investigate California’s alleged misuse of homelessness funding. The Republican told host Nikki Laurenzo he has launched a task force to look at the issue after an audit found $2 billion was unaccounted for in Los Angeles’ spending on homelessness.

“We’re going to get to the bottom of it,” Essayli said. “And if any laws were broken, we will bring charges. Now that does take time to build those investigations, but they are happening. I’ve instructed my agents and prosecutors that this should be done in a matter of months, not years.”


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