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Fifth Column

California anti-ICE protest group funded by Biden DHS grant

2025-06-09

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] The Department of Homeland Security is funding one of the groups that is staging protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which falls under DHS. War Room's Natalie Winters shared the shocking information on X, showing that DHS, under the Biden administration, gave a project grant to Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) in the amount of $450,000.

CHIRLA has been engaging in and staging protests opposing ICE. Protesters with CHIRLA carry signs saying "Stop deportations: full rights for im~~migrants~~ colonists," "ICE: out of our communities," "Education not Deportation," "Stop the starvation, stop the deportations," and "The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go Now."

CHIRLA representatives spoke to the crowd. "Our community is under attack and has been terrorized," said CHIRLA executive director Angelica Salas. "These are workers, these are fathers, these are mothers." Of the initial award, $100,000 remains to be disbursed to the group.

On Friday, Salas spoke at a presser of the CHIRLA-run LA Rapid Response Network "following the series of ICE raids conducted" that morning. On Facebook, publicizing the remarks, CHIRLA wrote "To our immigrant community: we see you, we hear you, and we will NOT stop fighting for you. We say NO deportations. NO to mass detentions. Families belong together! We belong here!"

Salas spoke about the group's "indignation as to what happened in our city, in our neighborhoods, in our workplaces. Our community is under attack and is being terrorized."

"These are workers," Salas continued, "these are fathers, these are mothers, and this has to stop. Immigration enforcement that is terrorizing our families throughout this country and picking up our people that we love must stop now.

"My call today is to all US citizens, because I want you to know if our rights are violated, if our constitutional rights are violated, if our due process rights are violated, then anybody's right can be violated.

"You think that you are protected because you are not an immigrant. I am here to tell you what is happening in this country and what we observe today is unprecedented, and we are in a situation where every single person who believes in democracy and believes in the ability of us to live free in this country is under attack," Salas said.

Posted by:Fred

#2 Evidence Suggests Los Angeles 'riots' over ICE raids could be government-funded

[World Net Daily] What began as a so-called "spontaneous protest" against ICE enforcement operations in Los Angeles has now been exposed as something far more insidious: a well-funded, coordinated riot, with ties to radical left-wing organizations, government-backed NGOs, and even a billionaire known for pushing Chinese Communist propaganda.

According to a damning exposé by investigative account @DataRepublican, several nonprofit organizations and shadowy political fronts played a pivotal role in igniting the chaos that saw federal officers attacked, flags burned, and city streets blocked.

But what's more alarming: tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money may have indirectly fueled the unrest.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-06-09 08:32

#1 Advocacy group at heart of anti-ICE protests in LA has long raised money through ActBlue

ActBlue is an American Democratic Party political action committee (PAC) and fundraising platform founded in 2004.

Both the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential nominees, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, used ActBlue during their primary and general election campaigns. Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 primary campaigns also used ActBlue for fundraising. Sanders' use of ActBlue was particularly notable as it represented the first time a major Democratic presidential candidate eschewed money from super PACs in favor of grassroots fundraising. This strategy would later be replicated by other Democratic political figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-06-09 08:13

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