Golden shower: as Californians brace for cuts in government services and handouts, their legislature finds a new way to spend money on illegals

piss off, peasant

California faces a $68 billion deficit in the 24-25 budget year, and it’s about to get infinitely worse.

And these numbers were calculated before the recent wildfires caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses

And the response:

The Washington Free Beacon, February 4, 2025:

Newsom Set To Sign $50 Mil 'Trump-Proofing' Plan After State Dems Vote Down Amendment Blocking Aid for Illegal Immigrant Felons

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) is set to sign a $50 million plan aimed at suing the Trump administration and blocking its mass deportations. State Democrats passed the plan on Monday—after voting down an amendment that would have blocked state funds from benefiting illegal immigrant felons.

The legislation will send $25 million to the California Department of Justice to sue the Trump administration and another $25 million for nonprofit legal services, including deportation defenses. The vote was initially scheduled for last Thursday, but Democratic leaders abruptly canceled the proceedings after Republican assemblywoman Leticia Castillo threatened to force a public debate on an amendment to block funds from bankrolling immigration legal services for convicted felons. The Democratic assembly speaker’s office said lawmakers were going to "look closely" at the plan to make sure its defenses were "airtight" and would "protect all Californians."

But the legislation didn’t change. When Castillo presented her amendment, Assembly budget chair Jesse Gabriel (D.) called it "unnecessary," and Democrats voted to discard it without debate.

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Legislators have added millions more for nonprofits, including those that defend illegal aliens from deportation and help move their families into the United States. Under their plan, some $10 million would go to the California Department of Social Services to fund nonprofit grants or contracts for immigration legal services and removal defense. The department last year shelled out $37 million in grants to pro-immigration nonprofits like Al Otro Lado, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, and Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Washington Free Beacon has reported.

Another $5 million would go to the nonprofit California Access to Justice Commission to expand its grants to legal aid groups. The commission’s top-funded nonprofits have included the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, which works to release detained illegal immigrants, and Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit firm that sues to fight detention of illegal immigrants as well as landlords and employers over alleged violations.

An additional $10 million, earmarked for the California State Bar’s Legal Services Trust-Fund Commission, could help illegal immigrants as well. The legislature has designated this money for legal services for indigent people at risk of detention, deportation, eviction, wage theft, and more. The commission already sends money to pro-immigration nonprofits like the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Law San Francisco, Al Otro Lado, and the LGBT Asylum Project in San Francisco, which says its clients come to the city’s Castro District, a gay tourism hub, "to find a sanctuary."

I can hardly wait for Trump’s response to Noisome’s and his fellow justice warriors’ cries for help.