San Francisco advocacy groups Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and its affiliate Stop AAPI Hate have been distributing guides advising illegal immigrants on how to avoid encounters with federal immigration agents—materials funded, at least in part, by a $2 million grant from President Biden’s Department of Justice.
Describing themselves as a “progressive voice” for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, the two organizations have circulated instructions telling undocumented individuals to “refuse to open the door to ICE agents, avoid answering questions or identifying themselves, and report ICE activity in their neighborhoods,” reports The Daily Caller.
According to CAA, which received $500,000 of the DOJ award before the Trump administration canceled the rest in April, its mission is to advocate for “systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.” Trump officials said the funding was cut because the organizations’ activities were “inconsistent with the interests of the United States.”
The grant had originally been earmarked for Stop AAPI Hate’s work in conducting research, performing policy advocacy and implementing strategic communications and digital media to sustain public education and conversation on anti-AAPI hate and scapegoating.
But since President Donald Trump’s return to office in January, the groups have intensified their public outreach efforts, promoting flyers and hotlines advising illegal immigrants to “keep their doors closed, refuse to answer questions or present identification, call the San Francisco Rapid Response Hotline to report ICE and protect your community.” The materials also warn against carrying foreign documents such as passports, stating that “ICE can use these against you.”
After riots broke out in Los Angeles in June—causing over $32 million in property damage—Stop AAPI Hate issued a statement blaming the federal government for “tactics suited more to a battlefield than American neighborhoods” and for “provoking unrest.”
Despite the groups’ vocal opposition to immigration enforcement, their own data paints a more complex picture. A January survey by the Associated Press found that more adults who identify as AAPI support increasing the authority of ICE to detain or deport illegal immigrants than oppose it.”
This is not the first time that the Biden administration has been revealed to have been sending money to radicals to protest in America. In February, it was revealed that USAID had sent tens of milions of dollars to The Tides Foundation and its affiliated groups, an organization known for its leftwing activism.
Last year, The Tides Foundation came under scrutiny from the House Ways and Means Committee for allegedly obscuring the identities of donors behind organizations promoting the anti-Israel activism on college campuses that occurred on some of the nation’s most prestigious campuses, according to Jewish Insider.
Committee Chairman Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri, pressed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for transparency regarding $12 million it received from Tides, arguing that such funding arrangements may violate tax-exempt regulations. “Getting $12 million from Tides and then trying to say it’s really not from Tides, it’s from someone else, that makes me want to look harder,” Smith stated.
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