Liberal activists in the state of California are blowing their tops after the deep blue state decided to ban illegal aliens sporting felony convictions from being able to receive tax-payer funded legal aid in immigration cases. Listen closely and you’ll hear the stamping of feet as these self-deluded do-gooders throw hissy fits over the enforcement of common sense immigration policy enforcement.
The measure was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, who put his signature on the bill as part of his budget for 2025. In his note from Feb. 7, he tells the state senate that taxpayer dollars are not to be used to support “immigration-related legal services for noncitizens convicted of serious or violent felonies.”
The change is set to go into effect in 2026. It will be the first such change concerning who is eligible for the Equal Access Fund since the program was created in 1999.
“Over 70 organizations in June issued public statements and sent letters to Newsom and state lawmakers demanding a reversal,” The Western Journal reported.
“This prohibition would have a devastating impact on low-income Californians seeking immigration legal assistance, likely stoking fear and creating a chilling effect on client communities in need of vital legal services,” Doan Nguyen, the California State Bar’s director of the Office of Access and Inclusion, said back in June.
“Bruno Huizar of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the policy signed by Newsom ‘rolls back’ progress,” the article said.
“Now is not the time to add restrictions excluding people from access to life-changing services,” Huizar went on to say. He then made the claim that the present time is one “when federal agents have arrested over 1,600 people in Southern California, separating families, violating constitutional rights and terrorizing neighborhoods.”
Lorin Klein of the Legal Aid Association of California warned that California’s policy change “just creates fear in communities that are already afraid,” according to CapRadio.
“The more we scare people, the more they go underground and don’t seek help,” she added.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Equal Access Fund alone paid for more than $8 million in immigration-related legal services in 2024. Another $10 million — also exclusively for immigration legal aid — was recently added to a separate program run by the California Department of Social Services, which does not serve felons, according to FAIR.
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but Gavin Newsom is correct. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to help criminal illegals who have expense legal bills. These individuals broke the law, many times over. At some point they must learn to take responsibility for themselves.
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