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BONUS POD： California’s Taxpayer‑Funded Illegal Migration Machine


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How California spent $1B importing 400,000 illegal immigrants to replace American citizens. Where did all that money go? We have the receipts. It s the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Ben Ferguson

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.540 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.780 It just seems to me, in general here, we're at large, 0.95
00:00:09.640 if you abide by the immigration laws,
00:00:13.260 stop all this sanctuary city business,
00:00:16.220 that's the most affordable thing possible.
00:00:18.760 You save, I mean, I look at what's happened in New York. 0.95
00:00:21.800 You know, sanctuary cities are only good for people.
00:00:24.360 It's sanctuary for criminals, okay?
00:00:26.320 They are protecting criminals.
00:00:28.040 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:32.180 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:33.160 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:35.560 And we've got a big story for you.
00:00:37.300 Gavin Newsom, you know, the governor of California.
00:00:40.500 Well, he's now spent more than a billion dollars to import more than 400,000 illegal immigrants to replace American citizens.
00:00:51.880 Where did all that money go? 0.84
00:00:53.460 We have the receipts.
00:00:54.780 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:00:58.740 Story number one.
00:00:59.900 All right, I want to just ask you a question real quick. 0.96
00:01:02.840 How mad would you be if you knew that your tax dollars were being spent to import illegal immigrants? 0.95
00:01:13.780 I'm asking that question because we're now finding out that that is exactly what happened in California.
00:01:21.140 California Governor Gavin Newsom, we're now being told, covertly spent not $1 million, not $10 million, not even $50 million, not even $100 million, not even $500 million.
00:01:35.400 He spent $1 billion importing 400,000 migrants from poor countries to serve the state's democratic political machine.
00:01:51.140 This, according to data provided by the Manhattan Institute in New York.
00:01:57.720 Let me just read for you from what we've learned.
00:02:01.580 Quote, since Newsom took office, California has granted massive contracts to migrant related services.
00:02:11.060 This is also what you could describe as a kickback to his donors and supporters.
00:02:16.160 more than 250 million dollars alone went to the catholic charities 85 million to jewish family
00:02:26.800 services 12 million to the centro legal de la raza whatever that is and 23 million to the
00:02:36.400 immigration institute of the bay area that's just some of the biggest people that got checks
00:02:43.240 Now, the funding is also in addition to California's share of massive, and this is where your tax
00:02:50.360 dollars, no matter where you're listening right now, matter the most.
00:02:54.400 They have a massive federal funding that's been directed, that's your tax dollars, by
00:02:59.920 then-President Joe Biden's pro-immigration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:03:05.180 The state's democratic government also steered $110 million to the major Latino political machine known as the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles.
00:03:18.840 That organization can be described as a one-stop activist machine with the ability to not only produce, and I'm not joking, political propaganda, then engage in legal action, and most importantly, get people into the streets.
00:03:33.800 The group coordinates the L.A. Rapid Response Network, which also tracks ICE raids and where ICE agents are, and then takes direct action, they say, to shut down detention centers.
00:03:47.740 That's their own words.
00:03:49.660 Now, during the wave of fake protests in L.A., this organization and their activists agitated on social media, led a street protest,
00:03:59.920 And then they were the ones that called for what spread as the, quote, summer of resistance.
00:04:06.860 All of this was not organic.
00:04:09.380 All of this was paid for and much of it with your tax dollars.
00:04:13.080 Now, at the height of the unrest, we're also learning this.
00:04:16.380 The executive director of this Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, Angelica Salas,
00:04:23.600 spoke at a street protest telling crowds that ICE agents
00:04:27.600 were conducting a militarized siege against illegal migrants,
00:04:33.020 saying, quote,
00:04:34.180 we are going to stop Trump's terror campaign against our community.
00:04:38.800 We will not stop marching.
00:04:41.100 We will not stop fighting.
00:04:43.140 The article is titled, quote,
00:04:45.520 How Gavin Newsom Subsidized the Migrant Invasion,
00:04:49.580 where all of this is being exposed.
00:04:51.580 I hope you'll download it and read it.
00:04:54.560 Again, put it into Google. 0.96
00:04:56.260 How Gavin Newsom subsidized the migrant invasion.
00:05:00.080 It also concluded in the report that the, quote,
00:05:03.020 2 million illegal migrants in California are pawns,
00:05:07.880 merely instruments of activist class that would like to see America burn, quote unquote.
00:05:15.460 Now, Newsom's support for the migration is better understood
00:05:18.960 is the self-serving operation of California's Democratic political machine.
00:05:24.400 And this is why the money was being spent the way that it was.
00:05:27.800 They're using the plans that have been used in New York, New York City,
00:05:32.080 in Boston, in Denver, in Minneapolis. 0.96
00:05:35.100 California's Democratic machine wants more low-wage migrants 0.64
00:05:39.660 because the migrants serve as customers for the state's education and welfare agencies. 0.80
00:05:45.400 in time the multi-ethnic migrant customers become clients and beneficiaries and then most
00:05:53.060 importantly to them modern day slaves dependents of the multi-ethnic machine that the democratic 0.90
00:05:59.760 party has set up and then they eventually will repay that machine the democrats with their votes
00:06:06.680 and gradually they are expected to then get citizenship right to be naturalized it's all
00:06:13.080 a part of the overall plan but now we're witnessing just how much money it's costing you now the
00:06:19.480 process in california is not any different from what the irish political machine that emerged in
00:06:25.280 chicago and boston and new york during the late 1800s did you remember the saying history repeats
00:06:31.560 itself well it literally is right now in front of us in real time you go back then and you study
00:06:38.900 that story. New York's Tamani Hall, for example, gained power as many Irish migrants fled the
00:06:46.120 famine and then lost power when Americans elected a Congress to block migration in the 1920s.
00:06:52.920 Now, Newsom's migrant clients also serve as business allies as well because Democrats claim
00:06:59.300 they want to quote living wage, but they want to pay a low wage worker instead of an American
00:07:04.260 worker welfare aided customers they're fine with that because it also brings them new consumers
00:07:10.640 and these are also individuals that will rent their slums you know their apartments because
00:07:16.700 many of them are apartment sharing renters let me just give you one example in march
00:07:22.420 missionlocal.org reported that san francisco had to inflate real estate values in the state
00:07:31.000 Why did this happen?
00:07:32.360 Well, I'll give you another example of that.
00:07:35.180 Carmelo, 43, was looking for a place to live for almost six months
00:07:39.100 after arriving in the United States of America three years ago.
00:07:42.740 And more in the article, it says they finally found his current room
00:07:45.580 through a friend of friends of his nephew.
00:07:48.660 Carmelo works at a neighborhood grocery store on 16th Street.
00:07:52.240 He was stacking cabbages on the shelf and pulling bad-looking mushrooms
00:07:56.860 out of the bin as he spoke to the mission local
00:07:59.720 about finding housing and paying rent in San Francisco. 0.98
00:08:04.040 The undocumented immigrant, we call them an illegal immigrant,
00:08:07.820 arrived three years ago from the Yucatan.
00:08:10.420 He lives in an apartment with three others,
00:08:12.680 his 25-year-old son and two of his nephews.
00:08:15.840 They pay $2,950 total.
00:08:19.560 Here we are.
00:08:20.440 There isn't another option, Camilo said in Spanish.
00:08:23.920 One immigrant family from El Salvador, 1.00
00:08:26.180 crammed not one, not two, not five, but 15 people into a two-bedroom unit
00:08:32.800 in the Excelsior neighborhood during the pandemic.
00:08:36.320 The migrants also serve the state's Democratic-leading prosperous class 1.00
00:08:41.640 with low-cost services such as manicures, gardening, and cheap car washes. 1.00
00:08:48.420 I wish I was joking, but this is actually why the Democrats are taking advantage of them. 0.98
00:08:52.980 Of course, the mass inflow of wage cutting, rent spiking, Democrat voting illegal immigrants 0.83
00:09:00.060 also pushes ordinary hardworking Americans out of the Democrats' amnesty zones
00:09:06.960 and towards southern and midwestern cities and states with lower taxes and family-friendly laws.
00:09:13.700 The elite's widespread use of illegal migration against ordinary Americans
00:09:20.380 is often protected by the democrats and they're dubbed you guessed it sanctuary cities now in
00:09:27.520 these cities in these zones democrats and even some gop politicians are barring police enforcement
00:09:35.480 of popular migration related labor laws and also try to block the democratic implementation of
00:09:43.780 President Donald Trump's 2024 popular mandate.
00:09:48.220 This is how the Democrats are going to move forward. 0.95
00:09:51.860 Take your money, as much of it as they can, and give it to illegal immigrants. 0.78
00:09:58.580 Communist Zohan Mandani doubling down on sanctuary policies protecting criminal illegals.
00:10:04.840 Just last week, he had this to say. 0.65
00:10:07.580 First and foremost, I'm going to follow up with my team around what CUNY policies are 0.98
00:10:13.080 and what they need to be. I think we've seen a number of times where we are proud of the sanctuary
00:10:20.080 city policies we have in New York City. And we also want to be clear that, and I'll say this as
00:10:24.800 the mayor, I do not want a future of the city where we learn how to deal with ICE. I believe
00:10:31.080 that ICE should be abolished. And I've said this both publicly and privately, and I've even told
00:10:38.280 the president directly that i believe that ice ice raids are cruel and inhumane i and i think
00:10:44.100 that they don't do anything to serve in the stated public interest of public safety so there you have
00:10:49.620 it follow the money time after time this is what we are seeing democratic policies not only don't
00:10:57.040 work but even nearly 54 000 we're now hearing los angeles county residents fled in a single year
00:11:04.720 Why? Because they can't afford the rent, they can't afford to deal with a crime,
00:11:09.820 and they can't afford to work for next to nothing, 1.00
00:11:13.520 competing with illegal aliens and what they're willing to make
00:11:17.540 and live on top of each other in the housing.
00:11:20.660 Here's just one example of how Fox Business described the massive exodus,
00:11:25.300 not from California, but $54,000 a year from Los Angeles County alone.
00:11:30.440 The exodus continues. We've got shocking new figures showing Los Angeles
00:11:34.300 losing tens of thousands of residents, one of the biggest population drops in the nation.
00:11:39.880 Experts pointing to soaring costs, shrinking opportunity, and policy failures driving people
00:11:45.160 out. Eventually that system collapses because the problem with socialism is you run out of
00:11:50.080 other people's money. So if that system collapses, if enough people leave, and I know we're just
00:11:55.340 talking about LA, but then eventually these states, that system can't support itself because
00:12:00.840 there isn't the tax base to support all of the public funds that you want i hate to say it but
00:12:06.820 to your point they make all these promises if you heard what zora mandami said it's going to be free
00:12:11.240 this free that free this i'm going to take care of everyone i'm going to tax the rich don't you
00:12:14.640 worry about it you stay right where you are well guess what how's that working out the state's not
00:12:18.720 going to the state's not going to raise uh income taxes on the wealthy it's an election year kathy 0.92
00:12:22.900 hochel she'll do it in january if she gets re-elected but she's not going to do it now 1.00
00:12:26.680 And so Mondami has been forced to now raid the reserve fund.
00:12:30.060 How do people feel about that?
00:12:31.580 So so I hate to say it, but you really have elections matter and you have to pay attention.
00:12:36.880 Whether or not you get involved in politics, you have to understand what's going on in politics.
00:12:41.560 You recognize the decision you make has consequences.
00:12:44.740 And that decision is costing you literally more than one billion dollars to import 400,000 extra illegal immigrants into California alone. 0.99
00:12:56.400 This is how you destroy a country from within. 0.95
00:12:59.760 And Gavin Newsom is clearly going full speed ahead to replace you with an illegal immigrant. 1.00
00:13:05.640 Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. 1.00
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