Andrew Kerr of the Washington Free Beacon reports an interesting revelation about California’s governor.
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) personally secured $500,000 in 2023 for a nonprofit group that supports defunding police and recently launched a bond fund for illegal immigrants in ICE custody, according to state records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Newsom in July 2023 asked the James Irvine Foundation, a private foundation that supports low-income workers in California, to donate $500,000 to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), a group that supports defunding the police. Though the funds didn’t come from Newsom’s own pocket, the James Irvine Foundation cut its check specifically at Newsom’s request, according to California’s “behested payments” database, which discloses whenever state elected officials solicit donations to a third party.
The Democratic governor “behested” the $500,000 contribution to ImmDef to support its efforts to “expand critical services offered to migrants crossing the US border,” according to the California database. Those services include ImmDef’s Detained Immigrant Bond Fund, which helps illegal immigrants get out of federal custody. The group launched the bond fund on June 7, just one day after anti-ICE riots broke out in Los Angeles, the Free Beacon reported.
Newsom’s efforts to bankroll ImmDef in 2023 could come back to bite him as he works to distance himself from the Democratic Party’s progressive flank.
In March, for example, Newsom denounced the “defund the police” movement as “lunacy” during an interview with conservative host Charlie Kirk. It is the same sort of “lunacy” that Newsom bankrolled when he “behested” $500,000 to ImmDef, which in June 2020 publicly committed to “joining the calls to dismantle the police state by defunding and decreasing police budgets.” The group also said it’s “high time we abolish the immigration prison system and abolish ICE.” …
… More recently, Newsom has sought to rehabilitate his image on immigration issues.
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