Xavier Becerra promises free electricity during POLITICO event in Sacramento (Photo: Becerra X)
Becerra’s Baggage Would Have Taken Down Anyone Else
How is media not hammering Becerra on the missing migrant children, the Awan brothers scandal, and $22.6 billion in grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024?
By Katy Grimes, October 8, 2026 6:00 am
There are serious questions about Xavier Becerra’s long record in elected office that deserve answers. His tainted tenure as President Joe Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary, and the government’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children, which has been the subject of extensive investigative reporting, including by The New York Times. Migrant children are still missing and legacy media doesn’t seem too interested.
Whatever Becerra’s explanation is, shouldn’t California voters hear it directly from him? How is media not hammering Becerra on the missing migrant children?
The Globe has covered Becerra extensively for many years: Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary doubled down on tyrannical COVID policies, including mandatory masking and vaccines for everyone including pregnant women and infants, as well as business and school lockdowns.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer recently accused Xavier Becerra when he was HHS Secretary of potentially hiding Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era diary and cellphone from Congress — documents that contained references to “COVID-19,” “gain-of-function,” and “Wuhan” that Republicans specifically requested in November 2023. Becerra either intentionally withheld the materials or failed to conduct an adequate search, according to Comer.
The California Post recently reported that Xavier Becerra disparaged migrant children as “little Juanitos and Juanitas” while leading former President Joe Biden administration’s health department, a former colleague alleges — fueling Democratic insiders’ fears about California’s would-be governor.
“I never heard a single person disparage immigrant children,” a former Biden administration official who worked with Becerra told the California Post. “He was the only person who brazenly said, ‘these little Juanitos and Juanitas.’”
But wait! There’s more!
Under HHS Secretary Becerra’s authority, “the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ramped up grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024 — which included cash assistance to buy cars, homes and even build credit for startup businesses, according to a shocking watchdog report that found taxpayers were left on the hook for $22.6 billion.
According to the OpenTheBooks report:
Robin Dunn Marcos, who led HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under former President Joe Biden, oversaw $22.6 billion in grant distributions since 2020, with her former employers emerging as top beneficiaries. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she spent 23 years as a senior director, received $598 million, while Church World Service, her employer of four years, was awarded $355 million.
The corruption runs so deep it’s literally rinse and repeat.
A few years earlier, then-Congressman Xavier Becerra chaired the House Democratic Caucus, from 2013 to 2017, when IT aides Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal Awan, and other family associates, worked for many Democratic offices, including Becerra’s.
The Awan brothers logged into the Democratic Caucus server thousands of times without authorization. Capitol Police also investigated procurement irregularities, equipment that did not appear on inventories, and unauthorized network access.
Imran Awan was later arrested on federal bank-fraud charges.
Becerra’s office and the Dem caucus paid the family more than other members, Daily Caller’s Luke Rosiak reported.
When Becerra left Congress in 2017, he asked to have his server wiped while it was under investigation, I reported. It was also revealed that the Pakistani IT staffers were sending sensitive information to the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2017, I reported:
Becerra has his own troubles in D.C. as he was up to his eyeballs in the House Democratic Caucus Awan Brothers Congressional IT Scandal. Then-Rep. Xavier Becerra was the caucus chairman when he gave a fake server to the cops in order to obstruct their investigation. “The executive director of the Democratic Caucus was Sean McCluskie, who was Becerra’s chief of staff and is now chief deputy attorney general of California,” Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak reported in 2017. “The Awans and their associates collected more than $5 million in pay from congressional offices, often drawing chief-of-staff level pay though there is reason to believe many didn’t even show up. The House’s internal probe found they logged into servers they had no affiliation with, used members’ usernames, covered their tracks, and persisted even after being fired.”
Since the January 2017 appointment of Xavier Becerra to California Attorney General by California Governor Jerry Brown, I’ve questioned why Becerra was chosen out of all of the qualified Deputy AG’s and lawyers in-state, and suggested it was to provide distance between Becerra and DC, as well as a strong offense during the investigation into his leadership role in the Congressional IT scandal and cover up.
If the name Sean McCluskie, rings a bell, he is former chief of staff for the former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who pleaded guilty to stealing $225,000 from the former Biden Cabinet secretary’s campaign account in Governor Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson’s public corruption case.
The Congressional hacking suspects–the Pakistani born Awan brothers–ran the Information Technology (IT) for dozens of Democrat congressmen and women, and could read every email and communication sent or received. Members of the California Democrat House delegation also hired the Awan brothers, along with nearly 30 more House Democrats as a “shared employee,” according to Legistorm.
Members of the Awan family logged on to the Democrat Caucus server 7,000 times without authorization between October 2015 and August 2016, according to a House investigation.
“The Awans were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge, transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment — including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before making tracks,” former Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy reported in National Review. And none of the Awans could have qualified for a security clearance.
The unvetted Awans enjoyed unfettered access throughout the Democrat Caucus – and even had access to the accounts of members of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees.
Many believe Becerra departed Congress early to become Jerry Brown’s appointed attorney general far away in California to put him in a position in which he could not be prosecuted.
With this record of political baggage and nefarious history, Becerra is running for California Governor? This is just embarrassing that California voters may consider electing Becerra. Becerra should never be near government authority, or a government checkbook again, and likely should be serving time.
Talk about failing up.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Now that is investigative journalism! The Truth will set us free! Get out and vote everybody! Make it way to big to rig!
That is sad that the truth about his corrupt career is not forefront in the news for such an important position . We must not let him win!!!!
Felix, this is a CA. Here they will vote for a Dem even if one is the saddest SOB.
CA is lost forever. It used to be something great.
How completely deranged and frustrating is it that we have a candidate for governor who has done things in all of his previous incarnations in govt jobs — never mind outside of those positions — that would make a mobster blush, and we have NO NO NO scrutiny from typical media? It’s not just a few people who are wondering, asking, desperately wanting to know WHY WHY WHY this is. We ALL want to know!
PLEASE VOTE AND VOTE STEVE HILTON FOR GOVERNOR
….and vote in the team: Michael Gates for A.G., Herb Morgan for Controller, Sonja Shaw Supt Public Instruction, Don Wagner for Secty of State, Gloria Romero, Lt Gov.
A dream team that will finally break up the ruinous, decades too long Sacramento Democrat industrial complex.
Vote GOP: Hilton – Gates – Morgan- Shaw -Wagner – Romero
We can do this. From your keyboard to God’s ears.
YES!
I’m glad Katy mentioned the Awan Brothers scandal. If she didn’t, I would have.
Funny how that story disappeared, and yet Becerra and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Xavier’s clueless co-conspirator in that mess, are as hard to get rid of as a bad case of hemorrhoids. Which isn’t the only thing Becerra, Wasserman Schultz and hemorrhoids have in common.
No kidding.
The tragedy is that there is no information being played on TV. There are no ads for Hilton. How is the general public to be informed about what a good candidate Hilton is and what a bad candidate Becerra is unless we give them the information. The Republican Party is failure in this state.
California Post is giving Hilton good coverage and rubbing Becerra’s face in his own excrement.
Support its publication—-not because you like its Hollywood sleaze and tabloid format —– but because it reaches a new audience with solid political reporting that finally offers another message to California residents besides this ridiculous Leftist media monoculture machine.
Plus The California Post is a guy thing for those who also love sports, as well as its surfeit of T&A.
California Post : A print home delivery daily where we can all find something to love.
Katy is the only reporter repeating the truth about Xavier Becerra. Her sentiments, “Talk about failing up.” align with Susan Rice’s reference to Becerra as b…. a.. and idiot, “
In his own words, “When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I’m willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I’ll even be water boy.”
California needs a competent executive leader, not a failing, fouling, futile left fielder mASScot.
We aren’t called KleptoFornia for nothing!
Thankfully we have Katy Grimes and California Globe to document and report on Democrat Xavier Beccera’s years of grift, graft, and corruption because the mainstream legacy propaganda media certainly won’t do it.
For example, this morning radio station KFBK in Sacramento affiliated with ABC News regurgitated sound bites over and over again of Xavier Beccera falsely claiming that President Trump was advocating an attack on LA and San Diego by Iran instead playing what President Trump actually said.
So he’s a crook. Shocking!
Do the Awan Bros know who killed Seth Rich? Was that not also happening about the same time – breaking into the DNC computers and passing things on to WikiLeaks.
The whole Awan family thing was 100% curious, including how quickly it was swept under the rug and the entire issue getting a free pass from the Democrats at that time. A thread that still needs to unravel.
Unfortunately, regardless of Becerra’s gross incompetence and corruption he will easily be elected our next governor. Public employee unions will fund his campaign. As mentioned, the legacy media will not mention even one of his transgressions. The majority of California voters are morons. All Becerra has to do is scream Trump, Trump and Trump. Game over. Trump didn’t do us any favors by attacking Iran. They could have been dealt with through other means.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the California Democratic voter. He will be elected and California will sink deeper into that tub of goo that is failure.
Take a look at the full compensation packages on Transparent California to see how the Big Government Employee unions get to their profoundly loyal Democrat voters. Democrat voters would be stupid to not to vote Democrat. Please do not ignore this political truth. We are paying for it. We cannot ignore this.
Democrats run in the worst pay to play schemes in this nation, that would make even Illinois blush. But only because California generates more money to throw at their full government employee union “friends”.
Raid the treasury and hire the relatives – Democrat’s secret sauce.
Throw the bums out – they have run this one-party insider trading racket far too long .
Jaye- Just for giggles, look up the total compensation numbers for Sac Metro Fire’s three public information officers. They are Justin Sylvia, Mark Nunez and Parker Wilbourn.
Or I could save you the trouble. These three gentlemen together pulled down over a million bucks in pay and benefits in 2025.
Nice work … if you can get it.
Becerra is Hillary Clinton 2.0. He should be jail along with Hillary.
When Becerra left Congress in January 2017 to become California’s Attorney General, he requested his server be wiped.
Investigators stated that when they requested an image of the server for the criminal probe, Becerra’s team deliberately turned over a fake server.
Law enforcement and senior officials characterized this act as obstruction of justice and interference in a criminal investigation.
This is who you want to have as Governor of California?
Well done , Katie! Hope this story is read by more Democraps so they can escape their liberal stupidity!