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The California Republican Representative, Bill Essayli, is looking for liberal Gov. responses. Gavin Newsom’s Administration on whether the bills introduced in the special session of the legislature in “Trump’s test” would frustrate the president’s mass deportation program.
During a Tuesday audience to discuss two bills that have proposed, which allocates a $ 50 million initiative to strengthen the state’s legal defenses against the expected federal policies of the President. Donald Trump’s The Administration, Essayli interrogated the Newsom office officials on whether the funds would be used “to defend illegal immigrants from deportation”.
“It is not very clear to me, but basically, these groups provide free legal services to illegal immigrants,” Essayli told Fox News Digital in an interview. “And what I wanted to know is whether they will defend illegal immigrants from the deportation of criminal history and could not answer the question. I think the answer is absolutely.”
The California Assembly, the bill, questions state officials as to whether the money in a bill before the assembly could be used to defend criminal immigrants from deportation. (California State Assembly)
During the hearing, Essayli asked one of the Newsom officials if the money would be used to defend criminal immigrants from deportation.
“A member of the assembly, as a budget staff, I can only say -what the subsidy is for, I don’t know that I can get this level of guarantee,” he said.
He later added that he is “not safe from this” when asked if any funds given to non -profit organizations would go to defend criminal illegal immigrants.
Newsom’s proposal includes $ 25 million in the California Department of Justice to improve their capacity to demand the Trump administration for policies that could “damages Californians,” Including environmental regulations and access to abortion. An additional $ 25 million is designated for non -profit organizations to defend “immigrant families”.
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Newsom and Trump face the President’s trip to California to examine forest fire damage. (Fox News)
“All this is to show, just to say,” Oh, we had a public audience on these bills, “and then we should vote,” said Essayli. “We have not received any questions.”
Spokesman for Newsom officeBrandon Richards told Fox News Digital in a statement that “none of this funding will be used to support immigration services for criminals.
Fox News Digital tracked the Newsom Office to ask -if the funds would be used to defend illegal immigrants in California of deportation. In response, Richards repeated his previous statement.
Trump administration has been advancing the first step with the first deportation illegal immigrants they have already been convicted of committing crimes. In the last week, the National Security Department said “law officials have withdrawn and returned 7,300 illegal aliens”.
Newsom proposes $ 25 million from state legislature to Trump test in California
President Donald Trump after signing executive orders at the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday, January 23, 2025. (Yuri toads/abaca/bloomerg through getty images)
Newsom quickly convened a special legislative session after Trump’s election victory to achieve additional funding for the legal defense of the state against the administration. Trump, reacting to the development of his true story, Trump said: “He is using the term” Trump test “as a way to stop all the fantastic things that can be done to” become again of California again “but I barely won the election overwhelmingly. “
The state has a history of legal battles with the Trump administration, after having filed 123 demands during its first term, mainly on environmental problems, illegal immigration and health care. California was also one of the first states to be established as a “State of the Sanctuary” for transgender transitional treatments for minors, a practice that Trump prevented from receiving federal support through a executive order On Wednesday.
The Senate of California has already approved the proposal of Newsom and the assembly will vote on Thursday. If the Assembly approves the measures without modifications, they will be sent to the Newsom desk on Friday.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
