You bet they are.  This is a great little article which explains exactly why that's so, if you haven't figured it out for yourself, already.

Most of us could see this coming back in 2003 or so.  People are a lot smarter than our gubmint officials give us credit for being.  They really don't want us to be awake because they can take advantage of us so much easier when we aren't. Si?  So just take a wild-ass guess where allllllll those "imported Mexicans" are going to end up??

Uh, yup.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/gavin_newsom_your_carbon_offsets_are_burning.html