Posted on 04/30/2020 10:10:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced itfiled a lawsuit in the Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles on behalf of two California taxpayers, Robin Crest and Howard Myers, asking the court to stop the state from expending $75 million of taxpayer funds to provide direct cash assistance to unlawfully present aliens ( Crest et al. v. Newsom et al. (No. 20STCV16321)). The lawsuit alleges California Governor Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority and violated federal law when, without affirmative state legislative approval, he took executive action to create the “Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants Project” and provide cash benefits to illegal aliens who otherwise are ineligible for state or federal insurance or other benefits due to their unlawful presence in the United States.
On April 15, 2020, Governor Newsom announced his new executive initiative to provide direct assistance in the form of cash benefits to illegal aliens. The initiative, known as the “Disaster Relief Fund” or the “Disaster Relief Assistance for Immigrants Project,” would spend $75 million to provide direct cash payments to illegal aliens and cost an estimated additional $4.8 million to administer. Governor Newsom’s executive initiative would provide one-time cash benefits of $500 per adult / $1,000 per household to 150,000 unlawfully present aliens in California. These benefits are not provided to U.S. citizens residing in the state.
Under federal immigration law, 8 U.S.C. § 1621(a), unlawfully present aliens generally are ineligible for State or local public benefits. Section 1621(d) requires a state legislature to enact a state law which affirmatively provides for such benefits for illegal aliens:
A State may provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States is eligible for any State or local public benefit … only through the enactment of a State law … which affirmatively provides for such eligibility.
The lawsuit alleges that the California State Legislature has not enacted any law that affirmatively provides that unlawfully present aliens are eligible for the $75 million of cash public benefits announced by Newsom.
The lawsuit seeks to enjoin California “from providing $75 million of taxpayer funds to unlawfully present aliens in violation of federal law and expending an estimated additional $4.8 million of taxpayer funds as well as additional taxpayer-financed resources on the administration of those payments.”
“Governor Newsom has no legal authority on his own to spend state taxpayer money for cash payments to illegal aliens,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The coronavirus challenge doesn’t give politicians a pass to violate the law. If California politicians want to give cash payments to illegal aliens, they must be accountable and transparent, and, as federal law requires, pass a law to do so.”
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Disbursement centers can be set up on beaches the governor has ordered closed.
Hooray! That deserves another contribution to Judicial Watch.
Trump, with the DOJ, needs to take action against power-mad radical liberal fools like Newsom.
Navin Gruesome...they’re living it up at the Hotel California. Can we run that wall up to the north around that state...to create Mexifornia? h/t VDH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niIX0QcYRzE
Check out anytime you like, but you can never leave (or we’ll check you in/out)
Where’s Ghislaine?
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im more worried about the billion sent to china to buy masks ..
The correct spelling of this rectum’s last name is: Newscum!
JW must have an amazing staff. They’re on top of just about every issue going on every single day, and they act when they see problems. The gravy is, that they win A LOT!
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Well said and true, MM.
Well...if Gov Newscome is throwing big money around...$75Mill to illegals and $485Mill to Chicoms for a $1 Billion dollar mask factory he might call 899-300-5615 press 1 for English and see if any money is being paid out to the unemployed in his great state.
bkmk
“Better yet, a branch that gets things done!”
doesn’t enforce laws against illegals or homeless and lets inmates out of jail early by the thousands. Mr. public safety.
Funny thing: That litigation thing works both ways, libtards. I hope when he found out about it he bled from his arse.
Excellent, V K!
So true. We’re not talking about the need for pruning the tree, it’s more about pulling that unproductive fig tree out by the roots.
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