Homeland Security subpoenas California for possible cash benefits to illegals

The Department of Homeland Security issued subpoenas to the authorities of California connected Monday seeking records related to alleged disbursements of national funds to amerciable immigrants.

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

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

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem criticized California politicians successful a statement, saying, "Radical near politicians successful California prioritize amerciable aliens implicit our ain citizens, including by giving amerciable aliens entree to currency benefits. The Trump Administration is moving unneurotic to place maltreatment and exploitation of nationalist benefits and marque definite those successful this state illegally are not receiving national benefits oregon different fiscal incentives to enactment illegally."

She added, "If you are an amerciable immigrant, you should permission now. The gravy bid is over. While this subpoena focuses lone connected Los Angeles County – it is conscionable the beginning."

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

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

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

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

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

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is targeting California with subpoenas connected amerciable immigration. (AP)

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

The insubstantial continued that those funds were "used to instrumentality large expansions successful the Medicaid programme to money amerciable immigrants and semipermanent attraction (LTC) for the wealthy."

President Donald Trump's medication is targeting national discarded and amerciable migration programs crossed the 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 radical to visit a link connected their website "for close accusation connected this topic."

Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.