Some LA migrant protests fueled by taxpayer-funded group with Dem ties — another with CCP link
8 June, 2025
One of the groups leading anti-immigration 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 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..
A CHIRLA spokesman denied that the group had anything to do with the violence in a statement to The Post on Sunday.
CHIRLA received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023.
He said CHIRLA “organized a press event on Thursday” to protest the round-ups 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 sunk 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 the 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, President Trump said, “If Governor Gavin Newscum, 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!!!.”
Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital Management founder and CEO, wrote on X, "Organizing to impede the lawful execution of warrants by federal officers sure sounds like a massive RICO case. Do you think @actblue and CHIRLA has thought this through? If a group publicly announces it's going to commit murder… doesn't make murder any more legal."
CHIRLA is funded by ActBlue. So in other words, the Democrats are funding this insurrection
What appears evident is that elements within the Democratic Party—from local L.A. leaders to D.C. elites, along with the law firms behind their sprawling dark-funded leftist NGO network—are orchestrating a coordinated color revolution. The goal appears to be placing Trump in politically difficult situations to shift public sentiment against the administration. This mirrors the strategy deployed by Democrats in 2020, when Marxist nonprofits, such as Black Lives Matter, were activated and mobilized to generate widespread unrest.
In response to the ongoing unrest in downtown Los Angeles, where it appears insurrectionist behavior is taking place by foreign nationals, including individuals in the U.S. illegally—we sought the perspective of Dr. David Asher, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a leading expert on hybrid threats and transnational networks.
Asher's response was very straightforward: "They should be deported."
His statement underscores growing national security threats of illegal alien civil unrest instigated by Marxist-aligned NGOs.
Asher's concerns were shared by White House adviser Stephen Miller, with a post on X that read, "Look at all the foreign flags. Los Angeles is occupied territory."
Very well coordinated chaos by Marxist-aligned groups.