New California Gubernatorial Frontrunner Caught in a Major Hypocrisy as He Releases This Outrageous Immigration Platform

by Cullen Linebarger Apr. 15, 2026 9:45 am



California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

The frontrunner to be California’s next governor has perhaps released the nation’s most radical immigration platform, but is not practicing what he preaches.

Radical billionaire and Democrat donor Tom Steyer, who launched a short-lived run for president in 2020, has now emerged as the person to beat after Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race due to major sexual assault allegations Steyer has already burned through over $100 million to buy the election.

On Tuesday, Steyer released an immigration platform so far to the left that he almost makes Gavin Newsom look like President Trump on the issue.

Not only does he want to abolish ICE completely and throw agents in jail, but he also wants to ensure California taxpayers pay for every dime to support legal representation for illegals.

Steyer is even vowing to ignore a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of ICE. And people have the gall to call Trump a tyrant?

Read Steyer’s immigration platform and weep:

– Abolish ICE – Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”.

– Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.” – Give CA AG power to imprison ICE agents & their leadership.

– Taxpayer-funded legal representation & support for illegal aliens.

– Ignore a SCOTUS ruling that allows ICE to utilize race, language, job, and location to contribute to “reasonable suspicion” for immigration arrests, and instead, “California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to its residents, despite the federal government’s failure.”

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NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It includes:

- Abolish ICE- Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”.

- Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.”

- Give CA AG power to

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7:11 PM · Apr 14, 2026

But Steyer seemed at one point to be okay with putting illegal aliens into custody as long as it enhances his bottom line. As The New York Post reported, the billionaire Democrat once invested almost $90 million in a company responsible for some of California’s largest immigration detention center.

From The Post:

Steyer founded a hedge fund named Farallon Capital Management in 1986. Under his management, the fund put money into CoreCivic, which runs private prisons. Farallon’s shares in the company were valued at $89.1 million at one point.

Now, the company runs five facilities in California, according to its website. At least two of them house people detained by federal immigration agents — one near San Diego and another in Kern County.

Steyer, who sold his stake in the Farallon back in 2012, is now attempting to do damage control as his poll numbers rise.

“We never had anything to do with running the company,” Steyer said in an interview with the Sacramento Bee. “But it was a mistake to think that that was a place where it was decent to make money.”

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