Homeland Security Subpoenas California For Possible Cash Benefits To Illegals

The Department of Homeland Security issued subpoenas to nan authorities of California connected Monday seeking records related to alleged disbursements of national costs to forbidden immigrants.

ICE's Homeland Security Investigations [HSI] agency successful Los Angeles revenge nan subpoenas this week, targeting nan state's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants [CAPI]. 

According to nan program's website, CAPI is intended to supply monthly rate benefits to aged, blind, and abnormal non-citizens who are ineligible for national Supplemental Security Income, but nan White House claims it provides benefits to forbidden immigrants who cannot entree societal information benefits.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem criticized California politicians successful a statement, saying, "Radical near politicians successful California prioritize forbidden aliens complete our ain citizens, including by giving forbidden aliens entree to rate benefits. The Trump Administration is moving together to place maltreatment and exploitation of nationalist benefits and make judge those successful this state illegally are not receiving national benefits aliases different financial incentives to enactment illegally."

She added, "If you are an forbidden immigrant, you should time off now. The gravy train is over. While this lawsuit focuses only connected Los Angeles County – it is conscionable nan beginning."

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The DHS is targeting California Gov. Gavin Newsom's authorities pinch an investigation into benefits for forbidden immigrants. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

HSI's subpoenas seeks records including nan sanction and day of commencement of CAPI applicants making love backmost to 2021, arsenic good arsenic copies of applications, nan migration position of those applicants and different documents relating to nan program.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's agency did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

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The investigation comes much than a period aft a abstracted study recovered that California is funneling billions of national payer dollars into paying for forbidden immigrants. The Economic Policy Innovation Center [EPIC] study drew a statement betwixt California’s Medicaid supplier taxes and what, connected paper, appears to beryllium astir $4 cardinal successful authorities backing going toward forbidden immigrants’ healthcare and different initiatives.

But that backing is really coming from nan national government, according to EPIC, via reimbursements to California.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is targeting California pinch subpoenas connected forbidden immigration. (AP)

"The authorities of California, colluding pinch security companies who screen Medicaid beneficiaries, has created 1 of nan astir outrageous ones yet, a money laundering strategy that results successful California obtaining much than $19 cardinal successful national money without immoderate authorities publication complete nan play from April 2023 done December 2026," EPIC's study says.

The insubstantial continued that those costs were "used to instrumentality awesome description s successful nan Medicaid programme to money forbidden immigrants and semipermanent attraction (LTC) for nan wealthy."

President Donald Trump's management is targeting national discarded and forbidden migration programs crossed nan country. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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A spokesperson for California's Department of Healthcare Services pushed backmost connected EPIC's report, arguing it is "misleading" and urging group to visit a link connected their website "for meticulous accusation connected this topic."

Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.