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One of the groups leading anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is a
taxpayer-funded activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party,
while another has links to the Chinese Communist Party.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) — which received tens
of millions of dollars in government grants during the Biden
administration — staged a rally last week to denounce Immigration and
Customs Enforcement arresting illegal migrants across the city,
including those convicted of heinous crimes.

Protests against ICE have escalated since then, with more than 1,000
rioters taking to the streets, assaulting immigration officers, slashing
tires and defacing public buildings, the Department of Homeland Security
said, prompting President Trump to call in around 2,000 National Guard
troops Sunday to quell the violence.

According to financial records obtained by DataRepublican, CHIRLA
received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state
of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023, a jump from the $12
million it received the previous year.

The radical group also received around $450,000 in grants for
“citizenship education and training” between October 2021 and September 2024 from the DHS — the very agency the group was protesting last week.
The federal agency cut ties with the group and terminated any further
funding in March, including clawing back nearly $101,000 that had yet to
be paid out.

A CHIRLA spokesman denied that the group had anything to do with the
violence in a statement to The Post on Sunday.

He said CHIRLA “organized a press event on Thursday” to protest the roundups and had “been sending legal observers to immigration courts and detention centers on Friday, Saturday and today as part of the LA Rapid Response Network.

“We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests
being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and
rally cited above,” the rep said.

Rioting broke out in LA on Friday as federal authorities resumed the
Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, conducting
numerous raids in recent weeks and netting “around 150” arrests,
according to Trump’s hard-nosed border czar Tom Homan.

Another group that was behind some of last week’s protests is the
Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which played a part in
virulent past anti-Israel campus protests at Columbia University and
which was once associated with suspected DC terrorist Elias Rodriguez.

PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through funding from
socialist billionaire Neville Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, founder
of activist group Code Pink, according to a 2024 report by the Network Contagion Research Institute. Singham sank millions of dollars into
backing the groups after selling his software company, ThoughtWorks, for
$785 million in 2017.

Singham’s ties to the Chinese government and Communist propaganda are well-documented. The New York Times published a lengthy 2023 expose on
his far-reaching money machine, which has steered millions to
China-praising nonprofits from South Africa, Ghana and Zambia to Brazil,
New Delhi and beyond.

The PSL did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment
Sunday.

Rioters gathered Friday after the recent protests to attempt to stop ICE
agents from carrying out the immigration sweeps, leading to officers
deploying tear gas and other less-lethal methods of crowd dispersal.

More than a dozen arrests were made Saturday, said Bill Essayli, the
United States attorney for the Central District of California, on X.

Images and videos showed hundreds of protesters clashing with riot
gear-clad federal agents who were attempting to apprehend illegal
immigrants near a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
decried the raids, the latter claiming federal agents used tactics that
“sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in
our city.”

In a statement on X on Saturday, Newsom wrote, “Federal government is
moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000
soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions. LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance
at a moment’s notice.”

In a fiery response to Newsom and Bass on Truth Social Saturday, Trump
said, “If Governor Gavin Newscum [sic], of California, and Mayor Karen
Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they
can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem,
RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!.”

https://nypost.com/2025/06/08/us-news/some-la-migrant-protests-fueled-by- taxpayer-funded-group-with-dem-ties-another-with-ccp-link/

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