{"id":4010,"date":"2026-05-30T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/california-gives-free-solar-panels-to-illegal-aliens\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:45:49","slug":"california-gives-free-solar-panels-to-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/california-gives-free-solar-panels-to-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gives Free Solar Panels to Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scheme, known as the Farmworker Housing Component of the Low-Income Weatherization Program, explicitly targets agricultural workers regardless of their immigration status, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Rufo<\/strong> and co-author <strong>Austen Hufford<\/strong> exposed how the initiative operates as part of California&#8217;s sprawling cap-and-trade system, which levies taxes on carbon producers and redistributes approximately $3 billion annually to energy programs and progressive social causes, all marketed under the guise of combating climate change.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2059416647186911552\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christopherrufo\/status\/2059416647186911552\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit organization La Cooperativa Campesina de California administers the program and has partnered with MAROMA Energy Services, a self-described minority-owned company, to contract out the solar panel installations.<\/p>\n<p>The two organizations have aggressively promoted the program to California&#8217;s estimated 900,000 agricultural workers, of whom between half and three-quarters are illegal immigrants, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Official documentation from California&#8217;s Department of Community Services and Development confirms that non-citizens qualify for the program and that foreign government-issued identification is accepted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natalie Velores<\/strong>, a program manager for MAROMA, stated in a Spanish-language radio broadcast that participants do not need legal status in the United States and may use a matr\u00edcula consular\u2014identification commonly issued by the Mexican consulate to migrants who have crossed the border\u2014to apply for the free solar systems.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the participating companies conducted extensive outreach campaigns throughout farmworker communities across the state to inform residents about the program and how to access the free solar power systems.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the massive expenditure, only approximately 2,000 families have received the free solar installations to date. This translates to roughly $23,000 per household allocated by the State of California for solar panels, refrigerators, and related services\u2014a figure the researchers argue raises serious questions about financial accountability and oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation also uncovered that a politically connected activist appears to be profiting substantially from the program. <strong>Mauricio Blanco<\/strong> has served as a project manager for La Cooperativa Campesina de California, which has received at least $10.7 million in state funding. He is currently listed as an executive of MAROMA Energy Services, which has been granted nearly $34 million from La Cooperativa for weatherization services since 2017. Blanco also serves as CEO of John Harrison Contracting, a firm that appears to have performed much of the solar installation work.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco&#8217;s network of companies has systematically redirected millions in state climate funding through these interconnected entities, creating what appears to be a lucrative arrangement for the politically connected operator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has funneled $49 million through a climate program to provide free solar panels to farmworker homeowners, including illegal migrants, according to a City Journal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[651,3168,4280,3167,543,4279,3166],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-christopher-rufo","tag-farmworkers","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-la-cooperativa-campesina","tag-solar-panels","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}