Sacramento - Latino lawmakers criticized Gavin Newsom for its proposed budget cuts to Medi-Cal on Monday afternoon, saying plans to freeze enrollment rates and premiums were unrecorded, a betrayal of California's commitment to protecting vulnerable.

The legislative impetus for Newsom's revision of the May budget released last week comes after the governor announced an additional $12 billion budget shortage in the upcoming fiscal year.

State Senator María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) said the plan to charge $100 for adult undocumented immigrants is a form of re-line, while the congress approved Mia Bonta (D-Alameda) that she suspected that the two levels of the system were constitutional.

"The governor is making an unsettling precedent - raising the price of a group of Californians based solely on their immigration status. It is illegal for Kaiser to do so. United Healthcare to do so is illegal. No doctor, hospital or clinic can charge any higher prices for any doctor, hospital or clinic for any doctor or clinic," Durazo said on California Capit.

The influential Latino legislative caucus strongly opposes cuts to the state's expanded Medicaid program. Although California expects revenue to decline, this objection arises due to President Trump’s tariff policies and increased state spending, including the recent expansion of Medi-Cal coverage to cover all qualified Californians, including immigrants who lack documents.

Newsom's proposal for scapegoat immigration is a proposal for California's economic hardship, state Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-Panorama City) said. She said immigration was crucial to California's strong economy and was recently named the fourth largest in the world.

“If you’re going to remove the name from this document — if you’re going to remove the state, people will just read it to you, you close your eyes — you’re going to think, ‘Oh, this is the budget that Republicans have proposed in Alabama.”

During a press conference Wednesday, Newsom encouraged state lawmakers and Latino caucus members in particular to offer alternatives to balance state budgets if they disagree with his proposal.

"Good people have different ideas, and I look forward to their ideas," Newsom said.

On Monday, members of the Latino Caucus did not mention any specific measures they would take, rather than cutting Medi-Cal visits, but promised to provide budget balance advice in the coming days and weeks.