Posted on 06/09/2025 9:00:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When ICE conducted raids Friday morning at multiple locations in downtown Los Angeles, violent protesters impeded their work at both the staging location at a Home Depot in Paramount and outside the targeted business in downtown. Things might have stayed somewhat contained but for the involvement of two powerful and high-profile leftist community "leaders."
One of those people, SEIU California President David Huerta, was arrested for interfering with federal officers after he got in the way of ICE officers. After his arrest, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Gil Cisneros, and other Democrat elected officials decried the action.
Then Angelica Salas, Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) held a press conference calling for broad demonstrations against ICE, and tensions and violence escalated from there.
Hundreds of "protesters" turned into thousands of rioters before long, complete with matching t-shirts and professionally printed signs, signaling the involvement of organizations with some degree of funding behind them.
As Data Republican found, CHIRLA and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSLWEB) are two of the NGOs implicated in this ongoing riot.
CHIRLA and their friends at the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) are well-funded, and well-connected, and have been astroturfing protests against Donald Trump and his belief in upholding our country’s immigration laws for a decade now. I first encountered them outside the Luxe Hotel on July 10, 2015, when they organized a protest against Donald Trump when he spoke to the conservative Friends of Abe group just after announcing his candidacy. But guess whose YouTube channel has video from the event?
Yep, the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Attorney Laura Powell looked into CHIRLA's funding and made some startling findings. Yes, there's government money going into the org; that's not startling. What is startling is the amount. According to a financial audit submitted to the State of California, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, CHIRLA took in $34 million from various government contracts, and 96 percent of the government funding was from the State of California. That amount is nearly three times the prior year's government contract total. CHIRLA's total revenue for the year ending June 30, 2023, was $45 million, meaning that 75.5 percent of its revenue came from government contracts.
Agencies contributing to CHIRLA’s funding during this period included the California Department of Social Services, the California Arts Council, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Yes, the Department of Homeland Security. Mayor Bass secured that contract for CHIRLA from her old pal (and Beverly Hills High School grad) Alejandro Mayorkas. Powell wrote:
For her part, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has defiantly opposed federal immigration enforcement in the city, stating on social media Friday, “We will not stand for this” and “No vamos a permitir estas acciones,” (“We are not going to permit these actions”). She added that her office would collaborate with community-based organizations that serve immigrants. She has a long relationship with CHIRLA and bragged last year about obtaining federal funding for CHIRLA’s programs. That grant is part of a broader stream of public dollars that the organization receives from government sources.
In announcing that $450,000 federal grant, on August 30, 2024, Bass said:
“The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Clínica Romero, and the Central American Resource Center have been on the frontlines providing assistance to new immigrant arrivals in our city. I want to thank Secretary Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security for their partnership and for providing these organizations in the L.A. region with support to provide life-saving assistance.”
(There was $100,000 remaining on the grant when Donald Trump again took office. DHS froze the funding, CHIRLA sued, then DHS canceled the contract and the lawsuit was dropped.)
What were they doing with that money? Well, their efforts are centered in their newly-opened "Immigrant Welcome and Empowerment Center" in downtown Los Angeles, which Bass toured in May 2024.
What does this mean, @MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA?
What is @CHIRLA doing at that center to "advance justice and full inclusion for all immigrants"? pic.twitter.com/1B098c5TdN— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) June 8, 2025
According to their website, their core leadership development activities are:
Basically, our taxpayer dollars are going to train high school and college students in how to break immigration law and become Marxist agitators, to ensure illegal aliens are counted in the U.S. Census, to organize illegal aliens already in the country, and to fund their legal representation against deportation.
And that's just in their leadership development section. They also have a filmmaking section, an affiliate organization in Mexico, the CHIRLA Action Fund (through which they can endorse political candidates), and more.
Powell concludes her X post by saying:
"To sum up how this works: Your tax dollars fund an organization that organizes efforts to directly interfere with the federal government’s lawful exercise of authority. Then, through its lobbying arm, that organization helps get Democrats elected to office, who then repay the favor by ensuring increased funding."
Case in point: Karen Bass.
You can read CHIRLA Action Fund's 2024 voter guide here; there won't be any surprises.
This is just the beginning of our investigation into CHIRLA and PSL's involvement in the ongoing riots; we'll publish those results as we go.
Insurrection!
Declaration of war!
RICO now!
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CHIRLA - The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
[Without there actually being a fire] . . . YELLING FIRE! in a crowded theature, is supposedly not free speech.
But for Democrats inciting destruction of property promoting dangerous fires . . . that is now, in the hands of “federal judges,” “free speech.”
Yep.
Community organizers, Karen Bass, one that really stands out.
Where’s BHO and his role? After all, he was the great community organizer. So great he became king/ czar through his presidency.
Yep.
Community organizers, Karen Bass, one that really stands out.
Where’s BHO and his role? After all, he was the great community organizer. So great he became king/ czar through his presidency.
And this guy and not Jewish lefty by the way
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
Sri Lankan Cuban Maoist tech lord
Refreshing in a sad way
Why do we let NGOs run the World? We elect a government to make the rules, not totalitarian organizations we know little about.
Sue ‘the organizers’ for all damages done to LA...
NGO’s, nonprofits, foundations - all the ways left wing nuts rip off citizens - ALL need to lose their tax exempt status.
Arrest every president and officer of every NGO who funded these riots.
Okay - I am dropping Karen Bass SPAM again into this thread.
Karen Bass - She is part of a covert project to destabilize the California and the USG or President Trump. Most of the people surrounding her have been hand picked using DEI to install them for this task against the US. The LA Wild Fires Response is a text book destablization operation. Mayor Karen Bass specialized in orchestrating foreign unrest for the CIA-linked NED. Now chaos hits HER city. Coincidence?
Karen Bass was a member of the Black Panther Party.
Bass was heavily involved with the Maoist Line of March.
Line of March was a Bay Area Marxist-Leninist organization founded in 1980. It became the Frontline Political Organization and later Crossroads, founded in conjunction with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization whic is now called Liberation Road.
Semi-annual trips to Cuba. Member of Cuban Solidarity Brigades. British organisation that campaigns against the inhumane and illegal 62 year old blockade of Cuba, for an end to the US occupation of Cuban land at Guantanamo Bay, and to defend the Cuban people’s right to be free from foreign intervention. Recieved bomb making and other revoluntary cadre training.
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) created in 1983 - does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. Transition Integrity Project is under NED. Publishes Democracy Digest.
Action for Democracy
Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Africa
Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus
Bass was sent with Samatha Powers to Rwanda by Obama.
2. California’s Lt. Governor, Eleni Kounalakis, was the Ambassador to Hungary under President Obama and is listed as a member of AFD’s advisory council. Turns up in California after being a co-swamp creature with Burns. Another one of the people Obama has used to plot the destabilization of California. He served on the Board of NED with Bass, but later denied actually being familiar or actually knowing her....
3. Gov NewScumb - what needs to said. He is part of the Getty, Newsom, Pelosi, Brown family tree. Adopted by the Getty’s.
National Endowment for Democracy has been highly critical of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, is linked to a group called Action for Democracy (AFD) which, according to the man who ran the opposition to Orbán in last year’s election, provided the opposition with at least $4.4 million, a violation of Hungarian law.
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