In 2021, early in America's historic border crisis, I wrote that the United Nations was fueling the problem by handing out debit cards and cash vouchers to would-be illegal border crossers heading north.
One outraged group of 21 lawmakers focused on border security has introduced a bill that would require the United States, the largest donor to the United Nations, to turn off the spigot of taxpayer money.
However, the reason HR 6155 did not catch fire was due in no small part to “fact-checking.” From reports such as AFP The United Nations insisted it had done no such thing.
The fact checkers lied.
The United Nations has just announced the 2024 Interagency Coordination Platform for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants (R4V for short), a planning and budget document to distribute $1.6 billion to 17 Latin American countries.
The report confirms that the United Nations, with the cooperation of 248 designated non-governmental organizations, is, in fact, providing debit cards to illegal immigrants, largely funded by U.S. taxpayers. It is covered.
Despite the R4V program's title listing Venezuelans as the target audience for this aid effort, the document's fine print (for example, a footnote on page 14 and a paragraph on page 43) states that large amounts of aid will go to “all nationalities.” and “several other nationalities.”
This document reveals all the mysteries about what the UN and NGOs are doing on the migrant trail, leaving no room for “fact-checking” to possibly debunk.
In short, the United Nations and its advocacy partners will provide cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and multipurpose cash assistance (MCA) to 624,300 migrants entering the United States during 2024. The company hopes to distribute $72 million.
According to other U.N. documents, that money is most often handed over, not only in prepaid, reloadable debit cards, but also in “cash in envelopes” that travelers heading to the U.S. border can use for anything they like, as well as bank transfers. , it has been shown that mobile money transfers are also being distributed.
This is just part of a broader United Nations hemisphere-wide vision to spend $1.59 billion to support nearly 3 million people in 17 countries who have migrated from their home countries.
A UN report predicts that migration to the north will continue to increase in 2024. The report attributes people's desire to leave to Venezuela's “xenophobia.”
And, ultimately, it tags the real culprit: the Biden administration's policies that created “opportunities for newly established legitimate routes to the United States.”
The only expression of apparent concern about supporting people who would clearly violate U.S. law appears on a map with thin red lines of migration routes leading to the U.S. border near El Paso.
Someone took the trouble to add a footnote to the page pointing out that the map “does not imply official endorsement or approval by the United Nations.”
Despite the lack of “official approval,” the United Nations spends millions to encourage such travel.
So why give cash to hundreds of thousands of people who plan to illegally cross that no-crossing line when these countries don't like it, don't want it, and have to endure political controversy? Do we need to give away hundreds of millions of dollars in services?
The plan says it will “support access to asylum procedures, migrant regularization activities, and socio-economic integration.”
Elsewhere, the paper describes the benefits program as “growing in importance.” The move is designed to give the growing number of immigrants “flexibility to cover their most urgent expenses and needs, enhancing their dignity and autonomy.”
For the past three years, from Reynosa and Monterrey in northern Mexico to Tapachula in the far south, I've been at the United Nations where long lines of U.S.-bound migrants apply for aid, with workers holding clipboards handing out cash cards and other goodies. Visited a way station. .
The RV4 plan calls for the majority of cash, cash equivalents and gift certificates to be distributed to immigrants to Colombia and Ecuador.
The plan calls for 24 NGO partners to donate funds to 95,000 people in Colombia and 59,000 people in Mexico.
Part of the so-called transportation assistance is a local taxi ride to the store or doctor's appointment.
However, UN agencies say the aid has resulted in “increased progress” of 105,000 migrants in Colombia, 25,000 in Brazil, 13,000 in Panama and 3,700 in Mexico, to name a few places. is also known to be promoted.
With the United Nations and NGOs on the front lines, the United States is paying the price for its own border crisis. That is a truth that cannot be removed by “fact-checking.”
Todd Bensman is a senior national security researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies.
