In just the past two years, California spents tens of millions of dollars into nonprofits involved in immigration/refugee advocacy and legal services.
These five key non-governmental organizations listed below, are just a part of the story, but received $73.6 million in 2023 and 2024, and all of them include deportation defense in their work.
They’re also all 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofits, meaning they are restricted in the amount of time they can devote to political advocacy. Nevertheless, many participate in advocacy at the state and/or federal level, with some emphasizing policy work in states other than California. These organizations represent only a portion of nonprofits receiving funding related to immigration legal support and advocacy.
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA): $35,226,566
As similar warnings have spread across social media, immigration czar Tom Homan has expressed frustration with those interfering with federal authorities and potentially endangering ICE agents.
Aside from their current activities fomenting unrest in L.A., CHIRLA runs many different campaigns and programs as a part of their regular operations, including the “Wise Up!” program to teach high schoolers how to become activists.
Immigrant Legal Resources Center (ILRC): $29,869,668
“The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is one of only a few technical assistance organizations nationally and in California with expertise on immigrant post-conviction relief, including clean slate and other record clearance remedies. Immigrants with criminal convictions are more vulnerable than any other group to being a target for deportation and make up the overwhelming majority of deportations that occur in any year.”
The organization is focused on three advocacy pillars:
“1) dismantling the arrest to deportation pipeline and disrupting racial disparities in the immigration and criminal legal systems;
2) expanding immigration law to improve protections from deportation and access to immigration relief; and
3) preserving and expanding access to legal services and opportunities for citizens and non-citizens to engage in the political process.”
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef): $631,600
ImmDef is focused on preventing deportation for criminal noncitizens. The nonprofit states it is particularly interested in taking cases that can “refine, clarify, and extend the law, as we recently demonstrated in People v. Manzanilla, where a California Court of Appeal issued a published decision clarifying key legal issues that impact noncitizens seeking to vacate immigration-adverse convictions.” In other words, ImmDef seeks to establish legal precedent to prevent deportation of criminal noncitizens through litigation.
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN): $772,800
According to the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) website, “SIREN is a vehicle for low-income immigrants and refugees in California—to be their own agents for change. We do this through community education and organizing, leadership development, legal services, policy advocacy, and civic engagement.”
The nonprofit provides some free legal consultations, but its primary work seems to be policy advocacy, organizing protests, and encouraging “civic engagement” among immigrant populations.
Some activities from their website include:
- Creating “organizing hubs” to organize “families and individuals to engage in immigrant integration advocacy at the local, state, and national levels, as well as develop their own base to make local changes to issues that impact themselves and family.”
- The “Multiethnic Immigrant and Youth Community Organizers” program, which “educates and organizes immigrants and youth on state and federal issues. Leaders are responsible for organizing and engaging their ethnic community base.”
- Working to “shift the political landscape in Northern California and the Central Valley by mobilizing immigrant and youth vote in elections.”
Taxpayers should not have to fund lawsuits against their own states, municipalities and federal agencies, incurring further costs in a vicious cycle. Nor should they have to fund nonprofits that agitate for more public services, again spending money to cost us money. And in no circumstances should organizations receive public dollars only to try to thwart federal law enforcement.
These and similar NGOs should be scrutinized by the state assembly before they receive future funding. They also provide an opportunity for DOGE to identify savings (among these and similar organizations) for future appropriations.
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Dear Handsome Jack and Beautiful Dodie,
What App/Program did you guys use to create the images for your June 16 article of NOGs that advocate for Illegal aliens?
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WordPress
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WordPress. Thank you, Observant William.
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Should be illegal to use government funds for such crap.
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Hard for that to happen when the politicians, their families and partners are on the take and profiting.
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Understood. No less infuriating.
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Yes, we have the same issue in Washington. Getting government grants and being paid to do your advocacy work is really how a lot of people make a living here. We have what we call the Homeless Industrial Complex, the Illegal Industrial Complex, and the Addiction Industrial Complex. A tiny bit of money trickles down to actual people being served but the vast majority of it just goes to provide employment to various administrators, advocates, and experts. So when you support something like stopping drugs or deporting illegals, you’re actually threatening people’s livelihoods, their way of life, their very identity, their social status, and the political forces that support them.
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This makes more and more sense—all of these “Complexes”. Thank you again.
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Based on this information, I think that most of the California government and all the NGO people are fomenting insurrection for a takedown of American Constitutional government, and need to be defunded and impeached, plus fired, jailed and sometimes executed for the lives lost by their actions. That ought to help; then there has to be education to teach people what America really is about, because they’ve never learned it in school; if anything, the opposite is true. The real Americans in California are being held hostage by poverty and crazy laws. It’s a state in crisis, and needs intervention.
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I truly wish your ideas and remedies would happen.
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