Judicial Watch Sues to Stop California Plan to Give $75M to Illegal Aliens
By: Tom Fitton
My state governor is breaking the law by trying to give tax payers dollars to illegal alien invaders. He has no constitutional authority to do so. Thank you to Judicial Watch, an awesome American watchdog organization that protects Americans from abuse by elected and regulatory leaders and our tax dollars 💵 from waste for getting involved in this case. Thanks to their leader for going to Newsmax to get this information to the world. Judicial Watch is a great public service.
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Leftists at the federal and state levels aren't letting this health crisis go to waste, using it as a cover to enact their radical agenda. As usual, California is taking the lead.
Our suit alleges that California Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority and violated federal law when, without affirmative state legislative approval, he took executive action to create the "Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants Project" and provide cash benefits to illegal aliens who otherwise are ineligible for state or federal insurance or other benefits due to their unlawful presence in the United States.
On April 15, Newsom announced his new executive initiative to provide direct assistance in the form of cash benefits to illegal aliens. The initiative, known as the "Disaster Relief Fund" or the "Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants Project," would spend $75 million to provide direct cash payments to illegal aliens and cost an estimated additional $4.8 million to administer.
Newsom's executive initiative would provide one-time cash benefits of $500 per adult / $1,000 per household to 150,000 unlawfully present aliens in California. These benefits are not provided to U.S. citizens residing in the state.
Under federal immigration law, 8 U.S.C. § 1621(a), unlawfully present aliens generally are ineligible for State or local public benefits. Section 1621(d) requires a state legislature to enact a state law that affirmatively provides for such benefits for illegal aliens:
A State may provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States is eligible for any State or local public benefit … only through the enactment of a State law … which affirmatively provides for such eligibility.
Our suit alleges that the California State Legislature has not enacted any law that affirmatively provides that unlawfully present aliens are eligible for the $75 million of cash public benefits announced by Newsom.
The lawsuit seeks to enjoin California "from providing $75 million of taxpayer funds to unlawfully present aliens in violation of federal law and expending an estimated additional $4.8 million of taxpayer funds as well as additional taxpayer-financed resources on the administration of those payments."
Newsom has no legal authority on his own to spend state taxpayer money for cash payments to illegal aliens. The coronavirus challenge doesn't give politicians a pass to violate the law. If California politicians want to give cash payments to illegal aliens, they must be accountable and transparent, and, as federal law requires, pass a law to do so.
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With the number of homeless AMERICANS california has, this is disgusting. Liberals seem to care more about illegals than they do about Americans.
Illegal aliens only deserve one thing from US taxpayers and that is a one way ticket back to where they came from
OMG! Foreigners are in California! Who let them in? /S
Newsom is trying to provide $500 to each “illegal” worker in Califonia that lost their job(s) suddenly like all the other workers in California. These people are neither homeless, lazy or gang bangers but any are bound to become homeless now. They work hard at one or two jobs for 6 to 7 days a week, mostly in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
You may want to kick them to the curb but I don’t think you will be very happy with the cost of dining out, staying in a hotel or the cost of meat and produce if all these people are gone when the economy opens up again. But you all go ahead and pound your fists in righteous indignation that some illegals might be able to pay a few bills.
If you feed feral cats you will get more feral cats
Not necessarily. I have fed many feral cats that have lived in our neighborhood for many years and there was never a resultant influx of other feral cats. Like many other animals, cats are very territorial and do not welcome other cats into their territory.
We may not agree on much but I never thought I'd see you compare human beings to feral cats.
Really....
Since packing house employees are now considered ''essential'' workers and Trump is making the packing plants stay open. Many of these employees at the packing house are illegal.
Kick them out until you need them. Oh, the fricking irony.
30% of the meat packers and virtually all of the vegetable and fruit pickers deemed "essential by the Federal government.
In the past two days, two Tyson plants have been closed. One in Indiana where 900 out of 2200 tested positive. Yesterday another Tyson plant in Iowa was closed when 700 employees (58%) tested positive for the virus.
Yeah, it's really safe to work at these packing plants./s
Since the money was authorized by Congress, I think Judicial Watch is pissing in the wrong direction on a very windy day.
Meanwhile the food chain falls apart and prices go up for those who can still afford to shop.
If we kick them all out who will Trump get to build his idiotic wall?
US Army Corps of Engineers with $$ Congress appropriated to building schools, housing and commissaries on over seas bases.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's going to one of Trump's contracting buddies that employs day laborers (i.e. undocumented immigrants).
In a week, Jarod will be looking for a new job.
If you hate your state and your governor so efing much....MOVE to another state! I suggest UT, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous. If you live near any produce farms and there are no workers to supply your food, pay the farmer a few bucks and go pick your own.
This is a state with homeless number near the top of the list. A state that begs for federal money when their state catches fire every fu$king year or any other disaster. Yet I've had some of these window licking fools tell me California can support the rest of the country.
Says the guy who lives in a state that gets federal money when it gets hit with Hurricanes every fucking year.
You beat me to it.
WE don't have a hurricane every year. Do you get federal aid if a blizzard hits?
Next?
You beat me to it.
How about you get Jim to acknowledge that Xx?
You're so right. Sometimes you have MORE than one.
Nope, never gotten a dime from the feds because of a blizzard. We call that winter here.
Next?