The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has increased immigration grants from 2020 to 2024. This included cash assistance to build credit for cars, home purchases and even startup businesses, according to a shocking Watchdog report that found taxpayers remain. Hook for $22.6 billion.
HHS' Refugee Resettlement Office (ORR) – flares up after losing track of 32,000 immigrant children in the US – has handed out high prices to numerous nonprofits and is “huge” for people crossing “An auditor who claims US borders and exile” effectively functions as an auditor Money Monitor Openthebooks It was only published in the post.
Taking on the task of resetting immigrants, asylum seekers and other refugees in the United States, ORR paid more than $10 billion to organizations that receive grants in 2023, President Joe Biden The number of non-citizens who are eligible to receive funds for most of their term has increased significantly. .
It has set a record high for the southern border intersection to the US, and at the same time there was 2.4 million fears due to customs and border security.
Non-governmental groups have burned taxpayers with up to $1.7 billion in services, including savings plans that cater to cars, homes, university education or startup dollars. Small business loans up to $15,000. A loan to repair your credit history up to $1,500. “Cultural orientation,” “Emergency housing assistance,” legal assistance, and Medicaid care.
Some programs were only available to migrants or refugees who lived in the United States for several years, those who were employed or who, among other provisions, were about twice as high as below federal poverty levels.
But the most funds are 12.4 billion over five years, even if federal whistleblowers were calling for ORR because they were ignored and sometimes cared for by abusive sponsors. Dollars were spent on unaccompanied immigrant children.
“The shining city on the hill has its walls and doors, creating room for legal immigrants, legal refugees and asylum seekers, but ORR has chuckled at its vision in recent years.”
“ORR is part of a nasty trend to use nonprofits as ideological proxy. It is harmful to both American citizens and other countries that are hoping to live better. A huge amount of money is outsourced to support the system.
Thursday's report comes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) fired fire on Tuesday after sending around $80 million by the Trump administration.
Over $2.6 billion opened doors in 2020, with $2.3 billion in 2021, $3.3 billion in 2022, $10 billion in 2023, and $4.2 billion in 2024. All the money has been paid so far.
Immigrants from Cuba and Haiti, humanitarian paroles in Afghanistan and Ukraine, special immigrant visa holders from Afghanistan and Iraq, and unaccompanied minors from overseas were all eligible for the grant program.
The Watchdog Group said that windfall came as ORR has expanded access to immigrant lawyers and eliminated the need for other non-citizens, such as refugees, to become economically self-sufficient. I pointed it out.
Two top groups that received funding in the last four fiscal years have been Church World Services. This opposed the joint agreement between Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the closing of the asylum loopholes at the northern border and the International Rescue Committee.
The former has won a grant of $355 million since 2020, while the latter received $598 million, according to a report by Openthebooks.
Robin Dan Marcos, a senior HHS official who oversaw the ORR program for solo child immigration during some of that period, previously worked for both nonprofits for over 30 years.
In June 2023, Dan Marcos put in hundreds of thousands of immigrant children and as part of the ORR's most expensive program, her office had not checked the juvenile for criminal history. He testified to house lawmakers.
Xavier Beterra's secretary then forced staff to release immigrant children to sponsors as soon as possible.
Hart condemned the treatment of immigrant children by Orr, saying it revealed “the left-wing counterfeit compassion regarding immigration.”
“Tracking 300,000 children violates dignity and puts them at risk,” he said.
In its report, Openthebooks alleged that Dunn Marcos' past work for nonprofits that received the ORR grants led to a “conflict of interest.”
A representative from Dunn Marcos' office said in a statement that after being appointed in September 2022, she refused to approve funds for past employers.
Nevertheless, Openthebooks submitted a request for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to Orr's Parents' Office, which Dunn Marcos had recently served. He said it suggests that after President Trump took office on January 20th, she left government service.
“Dan Marcos may have disappeared from the ORR, but we remain questioned whether certain nonprofits received special treatment in subsidies provided by bureaucratic agencies. ” concludes the group's report.
“What's clear is that ORR funded border states and NGO constellations deployed throughout the country.
An HHS representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
