Top Biden Official Funneled Billions to Migrants

[CaptUSA]

More accurately, she gave billions of your tax dollars to her friends using "refugees" as her excuse. I'm sure if you dig deep enough, you'll find the kickbacks, too. Remember, they had an app and trained the NGO's on how to import illegal aliens and designate them as "refugees".

Top Biden HHS Official Funneled Billions To Migrants Through Her Nonprofit Connections

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/top-biden-hhs-official-funneled-billions-to-migrants-through-her-nonprofit-connections/ar-AA1z0Q8d?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=150d7ce701434cc3acdda86e3b76524f&ei=27

A watchdog report revealed Thursday that a top official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directed millions in migrant assistance grants to nonprofits where she previously held senior positions.

Robin Dunn Marcos, who led HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) <unreal that this office can even exist> under former President Joe Biden, oversaw $22.6 billion in grant distributions since 2020, with her former employers emerging as top beneficiaries. The International Rescue Committee (IRC), where she spent 23 years as a senior director, received $598 million, while Church World Service, her employer of four years, was awarded $355 million, according to an OpenTheBooks report.

“Consistent with the Ethics Pledge, Robin Dunn Marcos is recused from participating in particular matters involving specific parties in which IRC is or represents a party,” a spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families, ORR’s parent agency, told the outlet. “That recusal obligation lasts for two years from her date of appointment, which was September 11, 2022.”

While HHS officials maintained to the outlet that Dunn Marcos recused herself from decisions involving her former employers, OpenTheBooks reported that IRC’s funding increased dramatically during her tenure, jumping from $22 million in fiscal year 2021 to over $235 million in 2023.

Through a network of nonprofit organizations, ORR provided an extensive array of benefits to migrants, including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for vehicle and home purchases, small business loans up to $15,000 and credit repair loans up to $1,500. Additional services included “cultural orientation,” emergency housing support, legal assistance and Medicaid care. The OpenTheBooks report called the programs a “giant magnet for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.”

ORR dramatically increased funding in general during Dunn Marcos’ tenure, with annual grant disbursements soaring from $2.6 billion in fiscal year 2020 to a peak of $10 billion in fiscal year 2023, according to the watchdog group. The surge in spending coincided with record-breaking southern border crossings, as Customs and Border Protection reported 2.4 million apprehensions during the same period.

The most substantial portion of funding — $12.4 billion — went toward programs for unaccompanied minor children, even as the agency faced mounting criticism over its handling of minors in its care. Tom Homan, now President Donald Trump’s border czar, estimated that 300,000 migrant children were unaccounted for under the program’s watch, he said in a January 2023 interview with Fox News.

OpenTheBooks filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2023 for any emails exchanged between Dunn Marcos and IRC and has not yet received a response. Dunn Marcos left her post at ORR after Trump took office in January.

The report comes after the Trump administration clawed back over $80 million that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was using to house migrants in luxury New York City hotels Wednesday.

https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/cash-for-migrants-fema-not-the-only


I think our "open borders" supporters in this forum need to pay attention to what has really been going on. This hasn't been about peaceful people crossing an imaginary line to improve their lives. This is a racket to steal your money and give it to NGO's that fund politicians, while destroying the fabric of the nation in the process. I can be sympathetic to natural migration of people, but I don't know how anyone can support this!

 

[CaptUSA]

Favorite comment from the substack link:

"Seriously... when do the hangings begin?"

 

[CaptUSA]

https://openthebooks.substack.com/i/156952614/what-is-orr

What is ORR?

While Department of Homeland Security is often thought of as the main agency in charge of migration policy and spending in the United States, ORR spends tens of billions a year setting up refugees in the United States. Programmatic activities had a focus on, but were not exclusive to, unaccompanied children.

As Open the Books previously reported, one ORR program helped participants save for car and home purchases, another gave out business and personal loans to help them build credit. Another program helped with “legal assistance,” “cultural orientation,” and “emergency housing support.”

These acted as giant magnets for those seeking to cross the border and claim asylum.

As spending from ORR exploded, Open the Books also identified instances where the agency was expanding the scope of criteria for individuals eligible for its funding. For example, in its 2023 Congressional Budget Justification, the agency suggested the following changes to expand its mandate:

Advocating that “Special Immigrant Juvenile Minors” within the “Unaccompanied Refugee Minor” (URM) program access the same benefits as refugees, which include access to Medicaid and the same foster care services as American children.

Expanding legal assistance to Ukrainian and Afghan children and other URM-designated youth to legal assistance ensuring permanent residency.

Giving cash assistance to full-time college or technical school student refugees.

Removing the need for refugees to obtain economic self-sufficiency “as quickly as possible.”

Total amount of new grants awarded by ORR, from FY 2020-2024

2020: $2,682,493,224.22
2021: $2,352,120,351.54
2022: $3,378,055,499.50
2023: $10,035,487,466.68
2024: $4,207,541,746.00

 

[Occam's Banana]

"The State is a gang of thieves writ large." -- Murray Rothbard

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