A recent report says non-governmental organizations are reaping huge profits from the Biden administration’s open borders crisis. free press.
In particular, NGOs tasked with providing services to unaccompanied minors receive large amounts of taxpayer funding through generous federal grants. The funds have been used by organizations to increase CEO salaries and provide services such as pet therapy, music therapy, “human-plant interaction” and “horticultural therapy.”
The Free Press reveals that the combined revenue of three prominent NGOs, Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc., grew from $597 million in 2019 to $2 billion in 2022. Did. Numbers for 2023 have not yet been released. The CEO of Global Refuge and Endeavors has an annual salary of more than his $500,000, and the CEO of Southwest Key has an annual salary of more than his $1 million, the news outlet reported.
“Amount of taxpayer money” [the NGOs] It’s becoming obscene.
A music therapist employed by Endeavors earned $533,000 in 2021. That same year, Endeavors paid a hotel management company $8 million to house illegal immigrants. According to a report in the Free Press, the NGO receives more than 99% of its income from federal taxes.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Children and Families distributes funding to NGOs, and its budget increased by 250% between 2018 and 2023.
Jessica Vaughn, director of policy research at the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Free Press that the Biden administration has increased the amount of tax dollars donated to NGOs. She said there was “a lack of accountability for performance and a lack of interest in problem-solving.”
News outlets revealed that Global Refuge housed 2,591 unaccompanied children in 2019 with a budget of $30 million. A few years later, the organization was spending $82.5 million and housing only 1,443 unaccompanied minors.
“Unaccompanied children receive six hours of education each day and participate in recreational activities, both in school settings and in the community,” Global Refuge told the Free Press.
Charles Marino, a former adviser to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano during the Obama administration, told the news outlet: [the NGOs] It’s becoming obscene. ”
“The waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money will rival what we have seen with federal coronavirus funding,” Marino said.
Endeavors declined a request for comment from the Free Press. The Southwest Key Program did not respond to requests for comment from the government. Daily Caller News Foundation.
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