The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has increased immigration grants between 2020 and 2024, spending more than $22 billion in taxpayer dollars on grants that include money for vehicles, mortgages and startup businesses. .
The agency's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has distributed $22.6 billion to many nonprofits, effectively serving as a “giant magnet” for immigrants who claim to asylum across the US border, and the Openthebooks Auditor I said New York Post.
The amount of non-citizens who are eligible to obtain funds derived from ORR under the majority of former President Joe Biden's administration has skyrocketed significantly, with more than $10 billion distributed to organizations receiving grants in just 2023 alone. It was done.
Meanwhile, the US has experienced a record number of border crossings coming in from the South Frontier as the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arrested 2.4 million migrants during that time.
Non-governmental organizations have scamped up to $1.7 billion from US taxpayers for services “including savings plans that match the dollars of cars, homes, university education or startups.” Small business loans up to $15,000. A loan to repair your credit history up to $1,500. “Cultural orientation,” “Emergency housing assistance, “Legal support, Medicaid care.” New York Post It has been reported.
But most of the money went to unaccompanied immigrant children who committed $12.4 billion over five years. hand over Many of the nearly 300,000 children are in that care, and sometimes not even abusive sponsors.
In particular, the ORR, tasked with resetting immigrants, asylum seekers and others who have entered the United States, has notoriously made the trajectory of 32,000 immigrant children.
Thursday's revelation from Openthebooks comes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) faced a fierce backlash to send about $80 million to fit immigrants into a hotel in New York City. In particular, President Donald Trump's administration rescinded the initiative on Tuesday.
New York Post However, please note that the funding segment is listed as “mandatory expenditures.” This means that not all the money has been released yet.
Meanwhile, Openthebooks pointed out that a major payday came when ORR expanded access to lawyers, repealing the need for non-citizens to become economically self-sufficient as quickly as possible. I did.
The Watchdog organization also pointed out that the Church's World Service and International Rescue Committee are two top groups that have received funding over the past four years.
Surprisingly, since 2020, Church World Services has won a grant of $355 million and the International Rescue Committee has won a $598 million.
Interestingly, Robin Dan Marcos was a senior HHS official who oversaw the ORR program during that time, but previously worked for both the Church's World Service and the International Rescue Committee for over 30 years.
In testimony to lawmakers in June 2023, Dan Marcos admitted that her office had not even checked the criminal history of immigrant juveniles.
Dan Marcos appears to have quit his government services after President Trump took office on January 20th.
“Dan Marcos may have disappeared from the ORR, but our questions remain as to whether certain nonprofits received special treatment within the grants provided by civil servants. ” said Openthebooks.
“What's clear is that ORR funds NGO constellations deployed across border states and across the nation.
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her Facebook and x at @armestrangeloand on Instagram.
