California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reported plan to assist unlawful immigrants and their households threatened by President-elect Trump’s mass deportation plan was slammed as a present of “damaging management” on Thursday, two days after POLITICO published details from an internal memo detailing a draft of the plan.
“We simply had an election on November 5. People voted for safe borders, secure streets and realizing that the president was going to provoke a deportation effort, not simply because he needs to, however as a result of we simply had about 12 million individuals enter the nation and be encountered by CBP crossing the border illegally. Something should be achieved about what simply occurred over the past 4 years, and now he needs to make use of the state’s funds and the state infrastructure to flout federal regulation,” Ron Vitiello, former U.S. Border Patrol chief stated Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”
He continued, “This is a state that has among the highest earnings taxes within the nation, among the highest gross sales tax within the nation, and has obtained a $68 billion deficit… so he will use taxpayer assets to guard who, precisely? People who’re within the nation illegally, who broke the regulation to be there and have additionally damaged the regulation within the jurisdictions by which they dwell in California.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom greets individuals, Monday, July 8, 2024, close to the Common Man Roadside Market and Deli, in Hooksett, N.H. Newsom is amongst main Democrats who has already voiced disdain for President-elect Trump’s plans for mass deportations. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
The memo, titled “Immigrant Support Network Concept,” proposes the “creation of an Immigrant Support Network comprised of regional ‘hubs’ to attach at-risk people, their households, and communities with group techniques — similar to authorized providers, faculties, labor unions, native governments, and many others.,” in response to POLITICO’s report.
The drafted plan, although “sparse on particulars” and “nonetheless underneath evaluate,” seems to echo broader efforts by blue state Democrats to problem Trump’s stringent stance on unlawful immigration. After Trump was elected, Newsom known as a particular legislative session and talked of a $25 million “Trump-proof” authorized protection fund.
When contacted about the reported proposal, Gov. Newsom’s workplace beforehand instructed Fox News Digital the doc has not been reviewed in Sacramento, including it was as an alternative drafted by the state’s division of social providers.
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President-elect Donald Trump factors at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Scott Murray, the Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Outreach Programs for the Department of Social Services, instructed Fox News Digital the doc is “not a remaining proposal.”
“This doc is an inner and deliberative draft doc meant for inner discussions as a part of a lot of doable concerns given the incoming federal administration’s public remarks,” he stated in an announcement.
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Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
