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.
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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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.
With the number of homeless AMERICANS california has, this is disgusting. Liberals seem to care more about illegals than they do about Americans.
You are right on! You have liberals exactly right too. Judicial Watch provides Americans a check on the abuses of big government progressives
Illegal aliens only deserve one thing from US taxpayers and that is a one way ticket back to where they came from
Without a doubt. Judicial Watch is doing a great job here for us Californians who actually are Americans.
That’s why wasteful blue states want a federal bailout far larger than just for pandemic related costs. So they can keep up their other unsustainable big spending and can help out illegal aliens ahead of Americans
OMG! Foreigners are in California! Who let them in? /S
You do realize that this has nothing to do with foreigners. The lawsuit is about preventing state aid to law breaking foreigners, those who are here illegally from receiving state tax payer dollars. Give it to homeless citizens living in California if he really feels the need to spend more money.
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.
We don’t need to subsidize invaders unwanted here. Let them go back to the country they are still citizens of if they lost their job. It would be ok by me if he was giving the aid to resident aliens here legally if they lost their job or short term legal alien workers here to do a job that ended temporarily before their time allowed here expires. But illegal aliens never.
Then get out there and start picking, and take all of your laid off employees with you.
We here in Texas need our avacadoes, strawberries and lettuce, pronto.
Get those unemployed people out in the fields NOW!
How much are they paying for cash money at the end of the day?
Because it hasn't been till recently that you can work outside six foot apart around here.
There are plenty of legal workers from Mexico and other countries who are here temporarily per their agreement to get those crops and do other things Americans won’t normally do. They and permanent legal resident aliens are welcome here.
What does it matter to you if you can eat the friuts of their labor while you break the rules and go to your building site pretending to be 'security'? You should be grateful for the food. Period
At least 30 days and you aren't hungry yet, are you?
Apparently not or the White House would not have made the exception, would they,
my White House worshiping friend ?
Farmers are forced to let crops rot and throw away milk while food bank demand soars
'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain
Dumped Milk, smashed eggs, plowed vegetables:Food waste of the pandemic.
While other Californians "shelter in place" waiting for their "stimulus checks" and the promised $600 a week in unemployment, literally watching their food supply be destroyed because they hate Pedro and Maria and their American kids.
I remember something of this nature happening many years ago when I was a young girl. Crops were left to rot in the fields, milk was being pour out into huge holes dug and milk by the semi's was dumped into them and covered. There were people starving while this was being done.
There were no food banks then, no stimulus payments. I remember people saying that it would never happen again here in America. And yet.....here we are... ....again.
How do you know what people are? I thought one of the left winger talking points was that everyone lives paycheck to paycheck unless you are the 1% elite.
People are still not receiving unemployment checks and many haven't seen a stimulus check.
Do you think they are hungry?
The bi coastal ruling elites sheer condescending arrogance knows no bounds when the motives of people trying to get their lives back and to put a roof over the head of and feed our families is questioned
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.
The money authorized by Congress specifically forbade the use of federal funds for that purpose. Gov. Newscum is instead spending state funds to do this without any authorization from the legislature.
How adult to name call your Governor.
Secondly, California's budget was passed by the legislature and in includes 'Rapid Response Funds' specifically to address the emergency needs of immigrants. That's where the funding is coming from.
As is so often true, Judicial Watch is pissing up a rope. But hey, keep being a cheerleader if you must.
The court ruled that judicial Watch was likely to prevail in the court case but declined to issue the injunction because it was in the states interest that illegal alien invaders get their money from us. Hopefully we can get the injunction upon appeal otherwise The recipients better save it because they will have to pay it back once we do prevail on the court case down the road.
Utter nonsense.
I won't even waste the time to ask you for a link since I know your post is bullshit.
BTW, hows that State of Jefferson lawsuit coming along?
It’s working it’s way through the system. Until then we will be satisfied with being the most openly pro Trump part of California and being proud of it as you send your tax dollars up here to support us!
It was dismissed.
I don't live in CA anymore so I don't support anyone there financially.
Pretty disgusting to be proud to rely on welfare.
As long as we have to be a part of that despicable state we might as well get every dime out of it that we can get under the federal and state constitutions. If we weren’t part of the state, those payments would stop. We are poorer than some other parts of California because of its policies and because we are a part of it.
Seriously Xx. I debunked that bullshit LAST YEAR. Without the largess from the state of CA, Shasta Co. and Redding would be a destitute. Just stop.
That’s totally false. When income levels are adjusted for cost of living in our counties we move much higher up in the ranking of counties living standards and lower poverty levels. As a state our regulations would more mirror federal rather than state levels and we would have a lower income tax rate or maybe none at all like Nevada and Washington. We would do just fine and if Placer and 4 Sierra counties to their south join them we are a very well off state. Even Stanislaus county is trying to join us now. We would be fine on our own. Being a part of California is why we are at our current economic level.
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.
I don’t hate my state at all . I love the State of Jefferson. I’d also love it if where I live became a part of the state of Greater Idaho. I just dislike the urban coast and the people who live there.
Sorry Sparky, but the SOJ is a concept, not a state. So move to Idaho then.
No, the idea is to expand Idaho here along with parts of Washington and Oregon. The California counties involved would be Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, and Tehama.
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.
Every state has a potential natural disaster that could affect it and cause it to seek national disaster assistance.
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?