A Los Angeles-based immigrant activist group could soon face congressional subpoenas or other legal action as a result of ignoring a June 23, 2025, letter from the House Judiciary Committee seeking multiple documents related to the widespread media reports that the organization is deeply involved in violent anti-ICE protests on the West Coast and elsewhere.

The organization is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which has received $34 million in federal and state grants. In the letter, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and two of the panel’s key subcommittees asked CHIRLA Executive Director Angelica Salas to provide the documents no later than July 8, 2025.

Joining Jordan in the request were Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, and Rep. Tom McLintock (R-Calif.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement.

Referring to the Los Angeles demonstrations against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency within the Department of Homeland Security earlier in June, Jordan and co-signers said those “protests quickly turned violent and continued for nearly two weeks.” According to media reports, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) is one of the groups leading and funding the protests. During the Biden-Harris administration, CHIRLA received taxpayer-funded grants worth nearly $1 million.

“This raises concerns that CHIRLA may be using federal funds to support violent criminal activity that impedes the enforcement of federal immigration law. As part of our constitutional oversight responsibilities, we request your voluntary cooperation with our oversight of this matter,” the signers told Salas.

More than six months later, however, no response has been received from CHIRLA officials. A committee spokesman told The Washington Stand Monday that the committee has never received a response from Salas or anybody else at CHIRLA. TWS also received no response to its January 8, 2026, request to CHIRLA media office for comment.

Salas did tell a local Los Angeles media outlet during a news conference she shared with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) that congressional pressure “is not going to intimidate us from standing with our immigrant community, standing by our families, by demanding due process, by demanding that there be accountability for the violations of human and civil rights that have occurred in our city.”

Failing to even acknowledge receipt of a request from a congressional committee for documents or other materials is a serious matter. Asked by TWS if a subpoena will be issued or other legal actions taken to compel a response from CHIRLA, the spokesman replied, “All options are on the table.”

Among the documents sought by the Judiciary panel were the following:

1. All documents and communications referring or relating to any grants, cooperative agreements, or other awards that CHIRLA received from the federal government from January 20, 2021 to the present, including, but not limited to, the Application, Proposal Abstract, Grant Agreement, Financial Management and System of Internal Controls Questionnaire, and Consolidated Budget Summary documents.

2. A detailed breakdown of how funds CHIRLA received from the federal government from January 20, 2021 to the present were spent, including the amount, date, recipient, and purpose of each expenditure, along with any relevant supporting documentation.

3. All documents and communications referring or relating to any donations, grants, or other financial contributions CHIRLA received from or gave to any other non-governmental organizations from January 20, 2021 to the present.

4. All documents and communications from January 20, 2025 to the present referring or relating to protests against ICE, DHS, Customs and Border Protection, enforcement of immigration laws, or the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.

The New York Post reported January 8 that a group suspected of funding the current anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has received substantial funding from a non-profit advocacy group founded by George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire who funds a wide range of activist organizations on the Left.

“Indivisible Twin Cities, which describes itself as a grassroots group of volunteers, has led many of the protests against ICE raids in Minnesota, where Renee Nicole Good was shot dead Wednesday after allegedly trying to mow down an ICE agent with her vehicle. Indivisible is an offshoot of the Indivisible Project in Washington, DC, which bills itself as a movement to defeat the ‘Trump agenda,’ and received $7,850,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2018 and 2023, according to public records,” the Post reported.