Democrat Gavin Newsom wants to be president; has given almost a billion tax dollars to leftist orgs

For young Americans: Democrat California governor Gavin Newsom is slick, oily, corrupt and a brazen liar and hypocrite--which makes him VERY popular among Democrats.  He's the leading candidate to be the party's presidential nominee in two years.

Newsom pushed the "train to nowhere"--a $120 billion white elephant originally touted as running from LA to San Francisco and Sacramento. (For young Americans that's the state capital.)  

Originally touted as 450 miles, it was obvious to all that the actual cost would easily be double what the backers had touted cost, so they cut the planned route back, again and again.  Now it's just 175 miles, between two towns you never heard of. 

But if you're not a conservative from California you don't care about any of that.  By contrast, you might care about the fact that Newsom has given almost a BILLION taxpayer dollars to leftist organizations working to destroy the United States.

City Journal is how journalism is supposed to work: factual, non-hysterical.  They investigated Newsoms lavish gifts--to organizations working to destroy the U.S. by opening the border and importing illegals with HIV.

My edited version of their much longer piece:

During biden's term an unprecedented wave of "migrants" entered the U.S. across the Mexican border.  The flooded in in mobs of 20,000 at a time, having been assured they'd be allowed to stay.  Many of the "migrants" paid drug cartels up to $7,000 apiece to be guided to the U.S.

At various times American authorities estimated that over 130,000 "migrants" were crossing into the U.S. each month--and not just from Latin America but every nation.

While Texas and Arizona tried to stop the flood, the Newsom regime in California welcomed it.  City Journal found that governor Gavin Newsom gave almost $1 billion to an army of nonprofits with the goal of getting more migrants to enter the U.S.

The groups have led massive street protests against ICE.  While they claim to be “humanitarian” or bleating for “immigration justice,” many are in fact left-wing activist groups determined to transform America’s demographics and win more political power for Democrats.  What's outrageous is that the Newsom regime is using tax dollars to fund it all--as he's running for president.

The expenditures have been enormous.  Since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts for migrant-related services: more than $250 million to Catholic Charities; $85 million to Jewish Family Services; $12 million to Centro Legal de la Raza; $23 million to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area; and more.

Many nonprofits benefiting from these funds are shockingly radical. 

According to its own materials, Al Otro Lado is anti-borders and openly hostile to the American nation.  In one video the group shows off books from its library, such as Undoing Border Imperialism, that “remind us that the U.S. is [sh*t].” The organization is currently suing the Trump administration to prohibit the government from turning away certain migrants at the border.

Another taxpayer-funded group, Oasis Legal Services, helps “queer and trans immigrants navigate immigration relief and benefits.”  (The group denies that it encourages the entry of immigrants.)

Adam Ryan Chang, Oasis’s executive director, says his “superpower” is “homosexual audacity.”  He describes his work with the nonprofit as part of a broader left-wing campaign of “liberating” the “LGBTQ+ community.” In a recent annual report, the group boasted about representing migrants with HIV. In 2024, the report said, “one in six of new clients is living with HIV and the rest are all at significant risk of contracting HIV.” In 2025, the proportion increased to one in five.

See, what we need is to pay taxpayer dollars to import more people with HIV into the U.S.

Once unauthorized people have crossed the border, Newsom has sought to ensure that they don’t get deported.  Since the beginning of his term he's given over $100 million to nonprofits that fight deportation orders—sometimes even for clients with criminal convictions.

One of the most prominent anti-deportation nonprofits is the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, or ImmDef, which has been given at least $6.7 million in taxpayer dollars since Newsom took office. The group portrays the United States as an oppressor, claiming the Trump administration has a “white supremacist” agenda.  The org has explicitly called to “abolish the immigration prison system” and to “abolish ICE”—which, in effect, would abolish the border.

ImmDef is open about its radical goals.  In 2023  its CEO, Lindsay Toczylowski, listed one of her group’s goals as “getting people out of ICE prison.”

That's their privilege.  But why should taxpayers be forced to pay 'em?

Once illegal immigrants are in the United States, ImmDef provides legal representation to fight deportation orders, including for those with criminal convictions. ImmDef is explicit about this: it has adopted a “merits-blind universal representation model” and provides “post-conviction relief” to illegals convicted of criminal offenses.

It’s impossible to know how many illegal-alien criminals have been kept from deportation by ImmDef and other taxpayer-funded groups because of a California law prohibiting a defendant's immigration status from being revealed even in a criminal court without a judge’s permission.  But there are alarming hints.

In 2023 the taxpayer-funded San Diego County Immigrant Legal Defense Program, which has worked with ImmDef, used county funds to provide immigration legal services to 34 noncitizens convicted of crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and acts of “moral turpitude.”  The program insists that such migrants made up a “very small share” of its caseload.

Meantime, Democrats apparently want to scrap any reforms and dramatically expand legal protections for unauthorized migrants. Assemblymember Mia Bonta, wife of the state's Democrat attorney-general Rob Bonta, is working to extend state-funded legal aid to all illegal immigrants fighting deportation.

The final part of Newsom’s pro-illegal machine is the activist element, designed to resist federal authorities challenging California’s status as a “sanctuary state.”

Last summer pro-illegal protesters launched anti-ICE demonstrations around the country, most notably in Los Angeles, where the riots cost the city $32 million and led to hundreds of arrests. Throughout the city agitators burned cars, looted stores, shut down the freeway, and threw rocks, bottles, and fireworks at law enforcement officers—all, effectively, to stop Trump from deporting illegal aliens.

Activists framed the protests as spontaneous and grassroots, but behind the scenes a web of powerful organizations drove the narrative.  At the center of this web is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA) has been given $110 million in taxpayer dollars just since Newsom took office.

CHIRLA is an activist outfit that can get people into the streets. The group coordinates the L.A. Rapid Response Network, which tracks ICE raids and takes “direct action to shut down detention centers.” 

At the height of the unrest, CHIRLA’s executive director, Angelica Salas, spoke at a street protest, telling crowds “We are going to stop Trump’s terror campaign against our community.  We will not stop fighting.”

CHIRLA later claimed its protest tactics are “rooted in non-violent advocacy, community safety, and democratic values.” 

The Central American Resource Center of Los Angeles, an immigrant-services nonprofit, was reportedly “heavily involved” in the demonstrations.  The Newsome regime has given this group $18 million by the Newsom administration since 2019.

When we asked the governor’s office for comment on this story, a spokesperson denied that the governor's office was “funding criminal activity or bypassing public health law.”

Who benefits from the governor's administration giving hundreds of millions of dollars to left-wing organizations?  Certainly the foreigners who entered the U.S. and obviously want to stay.  But also benefiting is the vast army of nonprofits, lawyers, activists, and bureaucrats who make money from defending illegals—and keep politicians like Newsom in power. 

The web of non-profits not only bring illegal aliens into the U.S. but also maintain the flow of funds to left-wing activists who would like to see America burn.

Source: City Journal