{"id":44309,"date":"2025-10-01T22:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44309"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:46:47","slug":"lurie-appointee-to-airport-commission-opposed-measure-to-block-ice-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/lurie-appointee-to-airport-commission-opposed-measure-to-block-ice-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Lurie appointee to Airport Commission opposed measure to block ICE in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘So disappointing and scary for so many immigrants.’<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By TIM REDMOND<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Daniel Lurie has appointed Democratic Party Chair Nancy Tung to the Airport Commission, and most of the news media have played the story as a normal item: Mayor makes appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy Tung wanted more cooperation with ICE. Now she\u2019s on the Airport Commission. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The SF Standard focused on Tung\u2019s possible political career<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The post could boost any political ambitions Tung might have beyond the DCCC. She unsuccessfully ran for district attorney in 2019 against Chesa Boudin, who was then recalled as DA in 2022 over voters\u2019 concerns about crime. Tung was later on Breed\u2019s appointment shortlist to replace Boudin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

None of the stories focused on the role that Tung could play on a commission that oversees a city agency that is, and will be, directly in the path of Donald Trump\u2019s attacks on immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE is already stopping people at the airport, including people who have a legal right to live in the United States<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Lee wrote in a post on X that his client, 40-year-old Tae Heung \u201cWill\u201d Kim, was taken into custody at the airport last week when he returned from his brother\u2019s wedding in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the post, Kim spent more than seven days at an SFO detention center without daylight, sleeping in a chair and having no access to an attorney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yes: At the San Francisco Airport. This is going to get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missing from the discussion: Tung was among a tiny number of Democrats who tried to block a resolution calling on the state not to share license-plate date with ICE<\/a>. She was, in essence, calling for the state to cooperate with the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Campos, former supervisor, immigrant<\/a>, and vice chair of the party, put it this way on Facebook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sad to see Mayor Lurie tap for the SF Airport Commission someone who has pushed for more cooperation with the Trump Administration. The SF airport is the point of entry, the gateway to and from San Francisco and the world. If there is any place where further cooperation with the Trump Administration is dangerous and harmful is at the airport. What is Mayor Lurie thinking here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So disappointing and scary for so many immigrants, not just undocumented ones that this individual would be in such a role. Anyone who is or looks Latino is a target. How safe are we as immigrants, as Latinos at SFO with such a person on the SF Airport Commission? We may have to thinking about flying out of or into a different airport.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Tung is part of the effort to move the Democratic Party to the right, and to support the agenda of the billionaires. That doesn\u2019t seem to be working, on a national<\/a> or local level<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, she\u2019s in a position to set policy on an agency that will be on the front lines of the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t seem to be news in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

48 Hills welcomes comments in the form of letters to the editor, which you can submit\u00a0here<\/a>. We also invite you to join the conversation on our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Redmond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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