Re: Some LA migrant protests fueled by taxpayer-funded group with Dem ties - another with CCP link

On 6/19/25 04:32, Falcon Unger wrote:
> One of the groups leading anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is a
> taxpayer-funded activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party,
> while another has links to the Chinese Communist Party.
> 
Filthy Democrats waste of tax dollars.

> The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) — which received tens
> of millions of dollars in government grants during the Biden
> administration — staged a rally last week to denounce Immigration and
> Customs Enforcement arresting illegal migrants across the city,
> including those convicted of heinous crimes.
> 
> Protests against ICE have escalated since then, with more than 1,000
> rioters taking to the streets, assaulting immigration officers, slashing
> tires and defacing public buildings, the Department of Homeland Security
> said, prompting President Trump to call in around 2,000 National Guard
> troops Sunday to quell the violence.
> 
> According to financial records obtained by DataRepublican, CHIRLA
> received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state
> of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023, a jump from the $12
> million it received the previous year.
> 
> The radical group also received around $450,000 in grants for
> “citizenship education and training” between October 2021 and September
> 2024 from the DHS — the very agency the group was protesting last week.
> The federal agency cut ties with the group and terminated any further
> funding in March, including clawing back nearly $101,000 that had yet to
> be paid out.
> 
> A CHIRLA spokesman denied that the group had anything to do with the
> violence in a statement to The Post on Sunday.
> 
> He said CHIRLA “organized a press event on Thursday” to protest the
> roundups and had “been sending legal observers to immigration courts and
> detention centers on Friday, Saturday and today as part of the LA Rapid
> Response Network.
> 
> “We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests
> being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and
> rally cited above,” the rep said.
> 
> Rioting broke out in LA on Friday as federal authorities resumed the
> Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, conducting
> numerous raids in recent weeks and netting “around 150” arrests,
> according to Trump’s hard-nosed border czar Tom Homan.
> 
> Another group that was behind some of last week’s protests is the
> Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which played a part in
> virulent past anti-Israel campus protests at Columbia University and
> which was once associated with suspected DC terrorist Elias Rodriguez.
> 
> PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through funding from
> socialist billionaire Neville Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, founder
> of activist group Code Pink, according to a 2024 report by the Network
> Contagion Research Institute. Singham sank millions of dollars into
> backing the groups after selling his software company, ThoughtWorks, for
> $785 million in 2017.
> 
> Singham’s ties to the Chinese government and Communist propaganda are
> well-documented. The New York Times published a lengthy 2023 expose on
> his far-reaching money machine, which has steered millions to
> China-praising nonprofits from South Africa, Ghana and Zambia to Brazil,
> New Delhi and beyond.
> 
> The PSL did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment
> Sunday.
> 
> Rioters gathered Friday after the recent protests to attempt to stop ICE
> agents from carrying out the immigration sweeps, leading to officers
> deploying tear gas and other less-lethal methods of crowd dispersal.
> 
> More than a dozen arrests were made Saturday, said Bill Essayli, the
> United States attorney for the Central District of California, on X.
> 
> Images and videos showed hundreds of protesters clashing with riot
> gear-clad federal agents who were attempting to apprehend illegal
> immigrants near a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif.
> 
> California Gov. Gavin Newsom and embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
> decried the raids, the latter claiming federal agents used tactics that
> “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in
> our city.”
> 
> In a statement on X on Saturday, Newsom wrote, “Federal government is
> moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000
> soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate
> tensions. LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance
> at a moment’s notice.”
> 
> In a fiery response to Newsom and Bass on Truth Social Saturday, Trump
> said, “If Governor Gavin Newscum [sic], of California, and Mayor Karen
> Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they
> can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem,
> RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!.”
> 
> https://nypost.com/2025/06/08/us-news/some-la-migrant-protests-fueled-by-
> taxpayer-funded-group-with-dem-ties-another-with-ccp-link/