The Biden administration quietly diverted $50 million in taxpayer funds that were meant for clean energy to two groups that oppose immigration enforcement.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected the New York Immigration Coalition and the New Jersey Immigrant Justice Alliance as partners to allocate $50 million of the $3 billion set aside for environmental and climate action in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Wall Street Journal report.
The mission of both groups has nothing to do with environmental protection.
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Instead, they staunchly support abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, believe border patrol is “racist and classist,” and want to block state and local government officials from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-Va.) said: The office is investigating IRA spending.
Capito said her findings prove that President Biden’s recent tough rhetoric on border enforcement is just lip service.
“This is hypocrisy at its worst,” Capito said at a Senate Republican leadership press conference. “At the very least, it’s extremely lax oversight.”
“It’s extremely disingenuous to tell the American people that the goals of the Green Climate Fund are being determined by immigrant justice and immigrant coalition groups.”
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Last month, Capito announced that the EPA had discovered that the same grant program had awarded $50 million to the Climate Justice Alliance, a group that supports anti-Israel protests.
The EPA did not return a message.
But the agency previously said immigrant organizations and Fordham University, which was selected as a grant donor, would take an “intersectional approach to placing frontline communities in positions of power” to advance climate justice in “disadvantaged and hard-to-reach communities, communities disproportionately affected by climate change, pollution and other environmental stressors.”
