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   As parts of Los Angeles burn under the fury of riots, there are burning   
   questions in Washington about who instigated the protests against   
   immigration enforcement operations and whether any funding is coming from   
   foreign sources.   
      
   FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News the bureau is investigating the   
   money trail behind those organizing and promoting the demonstrations   
   spreading across the country.   
      
   “The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for   
   these riots,” Patel said in a statement sent late Monday to Just the News.   
      
   After initial—and largely peaceful—demonstrations in response to several   
   immigration raids in Los Angeles late last week, the anti-Immigration and   
   Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests escalated over the weekend to include   
   more than 1,000 rioters filmed assaulting immigration officers, burning   
   self-driving vehicles, looting, temporarily closing down at least one city   
   highway, and throwing concrete rocks at law enforcement officers.   
      
   The images of violent rioters waving Mexican and other foreign flags as   
   cars burned in the background circulated the country and drew attention   
   from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.   
      
   Month-old footage of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatening to   
   “mobilize” over legislative proposals to tax remittances to Mexico   
   resurfaced in light of the protests, raising concerns about whether   
   rhetoric from south of the border could be inflaming tensions. Sheinbaum   
   responded to the violence on Monday, condemning it but promising Mexican   
   government commitment to all Mexicans, “regardless of immigration status.”   
   Biggs: “They hate this country”   
      
   “[You] got the outside influences…the Mexican flags and all these people   
   and the Mexican president…Sheinbaum,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told the   
   John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday. “[All] these people…they hate this   
   country, and they want to change this country, and it’ll turn, basically,   
   the country into a Third World hellhole.”   
      
   Biggs said that he has “no doubt” that foreign influence is driving the   
   protests, at least in part.   
      
   “Not a doubt in my mind. Not a doubt in my mind,” he said. “I mean, even   
   if you just take the statements of President Sheinbaum of Mexico, tacitly,   
   she’s basically encouraging this,” Biggs continued.   
      
   Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., said he fears some of the protesters are being   
   paid, and it is essential for Congress to follow that money trail.   
      
   “Well, I do think it’s important for Congress to raise those questions and   
   do that, look into it and find out what we can,” he told Just the News. “I   
   also think the Justice Department will play an important role in trying to   
   see these kind of things through, because, again, these ICE agents are   
   there simply carrying out their responsibility.”   
      
   Former FBI Executive Assistant Director Chris Piehota told Just the News   
   that the FBI likely began looking immediately into how these violent   
   protests were sparked.   
   Law enforcement likely focusing on sources of funding   
      
   “[What] they will do is they’ll start looking for those connections   
   between the financial and logistical networks that these people depend on   
   to create these, I would say planned disturbances or augmented   
   disturbances,” Piehota told the John Solomon Reports podcast.   
      
   “So you’re going to see them start going after some of those, you know,   
   supporting functions. So you can cut down on some of the people who,   
   basically, have become professional rabble-rousers and troublemakers. They   
   get financed around the country to show up at different events and cause   
   problems,” he continued.   
      
   “So yeah, I think you’re gonna see the FBI make a much more aggressive   
   push into some of those areas to cut off their funding and their   
   logistics,” Piehota added.   
      
   One group involved with the protests last week that eventually evolved   
   into riots over the weekend is the Party for Socialism and Liberation   
   (PSL) — a Marxist group with reported ties to the Chinese Communist Party.   
   That group has also helped organize the anti-Israel protests recently   
   ravaging college campuses.   
      
   PSL said that the demonstrators have “taken a courageous stand against   
   Trump’s reign of terror targeting immigrant families” and that those   
   “taking to the streets” are being falsely labeled as “rioters.”   
   The larger network   
      
   “But the people are not deterred – in Los Angeles and across the country,   
   protest is continuing with even more determination,” the group wrote in a   
   post to Instagram. “This could be a turning point where the entire working   
   class unites to push back Trump’s efforts to shred our basic rights and   
   dignity.”   
      
   The PSL is part of a larger network of protest and organizing groups that   
   have connections to the Singham Network, a collective of nonprofits,   
   fiscal sponsors, and alternative news sources tied to pro-CCP businessman   
   Neville Roy Singham, Just the News previously reported.   
      
   Singham lives in Shanghai and is identified as a “conduit for CCP   
   geopolitical influence,” according to a report from the Network Contagion   
   Research Institute—a research institute that monitors “cyber-social   
   threats.” The group found that PSL was involved in the Shut It Down for   
   Palestine (SID4P) protest movement, started by the New York-based The   
   People’s Forum—a group funded by Singham.   
      
   According to a profile of Singham by The Free Press, the financier’s   
   wealth came from his software consulting company, Thoughtworks, which he   
   sold in 2017 to Apax Partners for $785 million. The New York Post reported   
   that Singham poured the fortune he made off the sale of his software   
   company into at least a dozen nonprofits, including the communist People’s   
   Forum in Midtown Manhattan.   
      
   Singham has a radical Marxist past that eventually grew into an admiration   
   for China and its socialist system. Singham married Jodie Evans, the co-   
   founder of the radical left-wing group Code Pink, in 2017. The antiwar   
   group has become increasingly pro-China in recent years. Singham now lives   
   in Shanghai, China, where he backs or promotes several pro-China news   
   outlets, such as the India-based website Newsclick, The Free Press found.   
   Taxpayer funding under Biden and Newsom   
      
   But, some funding may be coming from much closer to home. State financial   
   documents show the progressive activist group at the center of the initial   
   anti-ICE protests in California received a large portion of its budget   
   revenue in recent years from taxpayers, through California and federal   
   government grants, Just the News reported on Monday.   
      
   The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) staged one of the first   
      
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