Governor Gavin Newsom—your staunch advocacy for policies shielding undocumented immigrants and positioning California as a “sanctuary” state has directly enabled the exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children under your watch, turning them into commodities in the state’s foster care and adoption trafficking machine. As you eye a 2028 presidential run, building your national profile on “resistance” to federal enforcement and “protection” for immigrant communities, the blood of these vulnerable kids is on your hands. This has happened in California—the largest foster warehouse in the nation—while you signed laws widening loopholes for strangers to grab guardianship and resisted measures that might disrupt the pipeline feeding subsidies and bonuses from severed families.

The facts are irrefutable:

• AB 495 (2025), signed by you in October, expands caregiver affidavits and joint guardianships to vaguely defined “nonrelative extended family members”—anyone claiming a “mentoring relationship” or affinity—with minimal verification, no strict kinship proof, and confidential records shielding abuse. Critics, including attorneys and parental rights advocates, documented this as a “trafficker’s dream,” bypassing safeguards and accelerating migrant kids into foster care when arrangements fail—creating “legal orphans” for ASFA bonuses and lifetime AAP subsidies ($300k–$600k+ per child).
• Border Pipeline Exploitation on Your Watch: Over 300,000 unaccompanied minors “lost” nationally, many raped or labor-trafficked en route. California absorbs massive numbers as a top release state. 2025 raids alone rescued 14+ migrant children from forced labor in California marijuana grow ops—facing gunfire, assault, neglect—yet your policies keep the door open, botching records to justify termination of parental rights and monetizing trauma through prolonged placements.
• No Accountability for Sanctuary Failures: Your administration resists federal cooperation on criminals, signs bills limiting ICE access to schools/hospitals, and frames rapid releases as “compassion”—while unvetted sponsors vanish, leaving kids exploited or dumped into the system you oversee, generating $500M–$800M yearly in fees/subsidies/bonuses.

This isn’t protection—it’s complicity in trafficking migrant children into the same rotten machine that severs domestic families for profit, seals our records as adoptees, and inflicts primal wounds overlooked for decades.

Governor Newsom, as a presumed 2028 contender selling yourself as a champion of the vulnerable, you must be held accountable for the kids exploited, lost, and commodified under your administration. Repeal AB 495. Close the loopholes. End the absorption for revenue. Stop overlooking the trafficking your policies enable.

Adoptees and foster alumni stand united. We’re disgusted by politicians like you with dirty hands in this legacy—building presidential ambitions on “immigrant rights” while children pay with their families, cultures, and lives.

The cleanup demands your direct action. The overlooked rights of these migrant kids—and all severed children—end with accountability from leaders like you.

We’re watching. The truth exposes everything.

Adoptees stand united. No more dirty political hands in child trafficking. Clean it up—or face the reckoning.

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