Homeland Security subpoenas California's immigrant assistance program in latest crackdown on illegal immigration

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Source: CBS News

May 12, 2025 / 7:00 AM EDT


In its latest legal challenge, the Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed California's cash assistance program for immigrants. It is demanding a slew of records from Los Angeles County to determine if individuals in the United States illegally received payments stemming from the Social Security Administration, dating back to 2021.

The legal action centers on California's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, or CAPI, providing cash assistance to "certain aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants" ineligible for social security payments due to their immigration status.

The pending investigation led by Los Angeles' Homeland Security Investigations – an investigative arm of DHS – has sought the following records:

Applicant's Name and Date of Birth

Copies of Applications

Immigration Status

Proof of Ineligibility for SSI from the Social Security Administration

Affidavits in Support of the Application

Recipients of Los Angeles County's CAPI program must be non-citizens who have been lawfully admitted into the U.S., paroled, granted conditional entry, or whose removal has been withheld. Candidates include Afghan and Ukrainian humanitarian parolees. According to Los Angeles County's website, the payments are designed for recipients who are ages 65 or over, blind, or disabled. According to the Department of Homeland Security, "more than 2 million ineligible illegal aliens received a Social Security Number in fiscal year 2024 alone."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-subpoenas-california-immigrant-assistance-program/

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This is nothing more than stunt harassment. If the person is "ineligible for SS" then the STATE is providing money, NOT the feds. "States Rights" and all that. They should blow it off like DHS blows off court orders.

[Walleye]

1. They received a Social Security number, so they could work, not to cheat the system. They will never see that money

I’m really getting sick and tired of the way. They constantly accuse Americans and others of being dishonest and cheating. Without any proof whatsoever, I think most Americans are honest and trustworthy. They don’t understand that because they’ve never been that way.

[Lovie777]

2. Apparently Homeland Security GQP run while in office.............

has used up their allocation of monies, just over 100 days. If that is the case, other departments are in the same fate. How?

That's what congress needs to find out. In my opinion, tax payer monies to going elsewhere.

[William Seger]

3. People who have shown that they don't CARE about "legal status" should NEVER be given that info!!!

ICE is a sadistic criminal mob! I sure hope there's someone at CAPI with the integrity and guts to stand up against this.

[Eugene]

4. Trump probe into Calif. program for elderly, disabled legal immigrants attacks 'most vulnerable,' groups say

Trump probe into Calif. program for elderly, disabled legal immigrants attacks 'most vulnerable,' groups say (NBC News)

No federal funds go toward the state cash assistance program and undocumented immigrants are not eligible to participate, an immigration advocate said.

A federal investigation into a state program providing monthly cash benefits to elderly and disabled noncitizens legally present in the U.S. is raising alarms among immigrant rights groups in California, who say the probe unfairly attacks the community's "most vulnerable people" at a time when immigration authorities are working to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise of mass deportations.

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday it has launched an investigation into the California Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants to see if ineligible undocumented immigrants received federal benefits from the Social Security Administration over the past four years.

But no federal funds go toward the state assistance program and undocumented immigrants are not eligible to participate, Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, told NBC News on Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-probe-calif-program-elderly-disabled-legal-immigrants-attacks-vu-rcna206510

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5. I just saw a story with a partial Newsom cave on a related front

California governor proposes pausing expansion of health care to low-income immigrants

By TRÂN NGUYỄN
Updated 9:02 AM EDT, May 14, 2025


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging those already enrolled a monthly premium the following year.

The decision is driven by a higher-than-expected price tag on the program and economic uncertainty from federal tariff policies, Newsom said in a Wednesday announcement. The Democratic governor’s move highlights Newsom’s struggle to protect his liberal policy priorities amid budget challenges in his final years on the job.

California was among one of the first states to extend free health care benefits to all poor adults regardless of their immigration status last year, an ambitious plan touted by Newsom to help the nation’s most populous state to inch closer to a goal of universal health care. But the cost for such expansion ran $2.7 billion more than the administration had anticipated.

Newsom in March suggested to reporters he was not considering rolling back health benefits for low-income people living in the country illegally as the state was grappling with a $6.2 billion Medicaid shortfall. He also repeatedly defended the expansion, saying it saves the state money in the long run. The program is state-funded and does not use federal dollars.

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