In the one-party fiefdom of California, where Democratic dominance has turned governance into a self-perpetuating machine, Steve Hilton’s unofficial CalDOGE team has just dropped a revelation that should shock even the most jaded observer of Sacramento’s excesses. Taxpayer money—your money—is flowing through a heavily subsidized nonprofit to enlist illegal immigrants in the campaign to elect Xavier Becerra governor.
This is not community outreach or accidental overlap. It is, according to Hilton’s investigation, a direct violation of federal law that weaponizes public funds and non-citizen labor to tilt the scales of a statewide election.
The target is Xavier Becerra, the former Biden health secretary and California attorney general whose record of open-borders advocacy and expansive government makes him the perfect vessel for the state’s entrenched political class. Becerra has surged in recent Democratic polling ahead of the June 2 primary, positioning himself as a leading contender in the nonpartisan race. Yet the very groups propping him up are drawing from the same public coffers that California families struggle to fill amid sky-high taxes, unaffordable housing, and crumbling services.
At the heart of the scandal stands the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles—CHIRLA. This organization has received well over $100 million in California state grants over the years, much of it funneled through departments like Social Services for legal aid, citizenship classes, and outreach programs.
CHIRLA’s political arm, the CHIRLA Action Fund, endorsed Becerra on April 13 after its members reportedly saw him as a champion of their cause. Hilton’s team, conducting its review outside CHIRLA’s Santa Ana offices, laid out the evidence in stark terms: internal documents show the group using and paying undocumented immigrants for explicit campaign activities on Becerra’s behalf.
- CHIRLA, a nonprofit drawing tens of millions annually in taxpayer grants, endorsed Xavier Becerra for California governor on April 13 via its Action Fund.
- Hilton’s CalDOGE investigation found documents indicating payments to illegal immigrants specifically for campaign work supporting Becerra.
- The group’s own Immigrant Political Power Project deploys undocumented individuals as paid or volunteer canvassers and phone bankers for political outreach.
- Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer-funded nonprofit resources for partisan political activity, especially when it involves unauthorized workers.
- CHIRLA claims strict separation between its 501(c)(3) service grants and 501(c)(4) advocacy, but Hilton alleges the lines have been deliberately blurred.
- This comes amid Becerra’s separate campaign finance scandal involving a former chief of staff and operatives accused of stealing $225,000 in funds.
- Hilton, a Trump-endorsed Republican candidate, has used CalDOGE to expose broader patterns of waste exceeding $400 billion in state spending.
- The allegations surface in a tight gubernatorial race where Becerra is polling competitively against Hilton and other Democrats.
- Critics see this as part of a larger Democrat strategy to import and mobilize non-citizen support to maintain power in sanctuary-state California.
Hilton’s press conference made the charge unmistakable. “California taxpayers are funding an organization that uses illegal immigrants to campaign for Xavier Becerra,” he stated. “This is not just unacceptable and unethical and outrageous—a theft of taxpayer money for political purposes. It is illegal.”
The video circulating from the event shows the team detailing how CHIRLA’s programs explicitly recruit individuals of varying immigration statuses, including the undocumented, for voter engagement and political empowerment efforts that have now pivoted toward Becerra’s bid.
Consider the layers of irony here. California’s sanctuary policies, championed by the very politicians CHIRLA supports, shield illegal immigrants from federal enforcement while the state simultaneously taps public resources to amplify their political voice. Working Californians—citizens paying the highest state taxes in the nation—foot the bill for a system that undercuts their own electoral influence.
Meanwhile, Becerra’s tenure at Health and Human Services coincided with record border encounters and criticism over the placement of unaccompanied minors. The message to voters is clear: in today’s California, loyalty to the progressive agenda matters more than legal status or fiscal accountability.
This fits a well-established pattern. Hilton’s CalDOGE operation has repeatedly highlighted how Sacramento funnels hundreds of millions into activist networks under the guise of social services, only for those funds to fuel Democratic voter mobilization. Earlier probes revealed $370 million in substance-abuse grants redirected toward political infrastructure.
CHIRLA’s history includes organizing anti-ICE protests and advocacy that often blurs the line between service delivery and partisan activism. When government money bankrolls such efforts, the result is not neutral humanitarian work but an entrenched power structure that treats elections as extensions of the administrative state.
The practical consequences extend beyond one race. If public dollars can subsidize non-citizen campaign labor, what remains of the principle that American elections belong to American citizens? Federal statutes governing nonprofit tax status and employment of unauthorized workers exist precisely to prevent this kind of abuse. Yet in a state where one party controls every lever of power, enforcement appears optional. The very officials tasked with oversight often benefit from the arrangement. Rhetorical commitments to “democracy” ring hollow when the machinery of democracy is being oiled with taxpayer cash and staffed by those outside the polity.
Becerra’s campaign has faced other recent scrutiny, including the federal probe into alleged theft of $225,000 by longtime aides. That episode, like this latest claim, underscores a troubling pattern of loose accountability among those who lecture the rest of us on governance. Hilton, by contrast, has built his candidacy around exposing these failures—mirroring the federal DOGE model at the state level to claw back waste and restore priorities for working people.
Calls for a full federal and state investigation are not partisan theater; they are the bare minimum required to restore trust. Defunding organizations that cannot or will not separate service delivery from political warfare should be non-negotiable. California’s voters, already weary of unaffordable living and visible decline, deserve leaders who prioritize citizens over imported political muscle.
As the prophet declared, “But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” California’s political elite would do well to recognize that justice cannot coexist with the systematic diversion of public resources to entrench one party’s rule at the expense of the people it claims to serve.
The coming weeks will test whether this exposure forces real accountability or simply fades into the background noise of Sacramento scandals. For now, it stands as a stark reminder: when government and activist nonprofits merge into a single political engine, it is the citizen who pays the price—and the republic that bears the cost.
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