Vice President JD Vance is heading straight into the belly of the progressive beast on Friday, traveling to Los Angeles as tensions simmer following President Donald Trump’s decisive crackdown on illegal immigration.

Vance’s schedule includes a tour of a federal multi-agency Joint Operations Center, a Mobile Command Center, meetings with federal and military leadership, and a brief address to the press. The visit comes as the Trump administration continues restoring law and order in a city long overrun by open-borders chaos.

President Trump previously deployed National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles after far-left activists staged violent anti-ICE riots across the city. The streets have since quieted — not due to local leadership, but because the military presence has stabilized the area.

Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom, clearly rattled by the administration’s firm response, tried to block the deployment by suing the federal government to regain control of the California National Guard. On Thursday, a federal appeals court shut him down, delivering a legal win for President Trump and a rebuke of Newsom’s reckless resistance.

The city’s unrest reached new levels of absurdity when the Los Angeles Dodgers — echoing the left’s hostility toward immigration enforcement — claimed they denied ICE agents access to their parking lot. The team alleged on X that ICE had “requested permission” to enter the stadium grounds.

But ICE swiftly debunked the Dodgers’ claim: “ICE was never at Dodgers stadium, and thus never tried to gain access.” The agency publicly responded, “False. We were never there.”

Earlier in the day, law enforcement vehicles near the stadium led protestors to wrongly assume ICE was conducting an operation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) clarified the confusion, stating their vehicles were “in the stadium parking lot very briefly,” and had “nothing to do with the Dodgers” or any immigration action. A spokesperson emphasized the presence was “unrelated to any operation or enforcement.”

Meanwhile, federal investigators are now probing who’s behind the riots — particularly the big-money sources funding the chaos. According to Fox News Digital, a prominent California protest-staffing firm, Crowds on Demand, revealed it had received “numerous high-budget requests” to participate in anti-ICE demonstrations but declined due to concerns over “violence, vandalism, or blocking off roads without a permit.”

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, confirmed that his committee is sending formal letters to several organizations suspected of financing or organizing the unrest.

One group in the crosshairs: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a radical open-borders group believed to be a key player behind the recent protests. California Rep. Kevin Kiley (R) noted that CHIRLA has long advocated for the abolishment of ICE and questioned Governor Newsom’s potential ties to the movement.

IRS data obtained by Fox News shows CHIRLA has received $34 million in government grants, including three separate $750,000 payouts during the Biden administration. Another group, the Million Voter Project, which opposed Newsom’s recall and also received funds from the same pool, has openly supported anti-ICE marches.

While neither group has admitted to funding the riots directly, their track records and political objectives raise serious questions about whether taxpayer dollars are indirectly fueling the far-left’s anti-border agenda.