NGOs, Feds Collude on Migrant Travel
House Republicans are launching a long-overdue investigation into three nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for aiding and abetting illegal aliens’ entry and resettlement into the United States, federal crimes. Rep. Lance Gooden (Texas) is leading the effort, along with his congressional colleagues Tom Tiffany (Wis.), Jake Ellzey (Texas) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.). Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has joined with the congressmen to lend his support in their attempt to keep the immigration process lawful.
Gooden, Tiffany, Ellzey and Biggs sent a letter to the NGOs asking them to preserve all their documents and communications that may be related to their role in assisting in the migrant surge from the border into the U.S. heartland. The letter defined “preserve” to mean “securing and maintaining the integrity of all relevant documents, communications, and other information….”
The representatives’ letter, sent to Catholic Charities, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and the Jewish Family Service, accused the NGOs of violating federal law and regulations. Specifically, they wrote that the Biden administration is “circumventing the security and safety standards federal agencies must uphold by allowing NGOs to harbor, transport, and encourage unauthorized aliens to resettle in the U.S.” By facilitating illegal immigrants in their journey, the letter further states, the NGOs have put American communities at risk and impose upon them “unreasonable burdens” that include fiscal and societal costs, e.g., public education and medical care.
Catholic Charities posted an indignant response on its website wherein it claimed that it did “lifesaving, humanitarian work, and that the accusations were “incredibly disturbing,” as well as “fallacious and factually inaccurate.” The rebuttal closed with a plea for Americans to join in the effort to reform the “broken immigration system,” an often-used term.
Long before President Biden took office, NGOs had accelerated illegal aliens’ path into the U.S. interior. But since Biden’s inauguration, and his immediate opening of the border, the role of NGOs has become more prominent.
Putting your tax dollars to work, here’s how the NGOs operate. They go to the border to take would-be asylum seekers into their fold after the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection arm has released them. DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services pay the NGOs, thus creating an incentive for others to surge the border and to have their transportation into the interior, their food and their shelter paid for in full. The estimated outlay reaches into the millions of dollars. Gooden believes that the Biden administration is assisting illegal alien trafficking. And, in fact, CBP directly violates its obligation to prevent aliens’ illegal entry through the U.S. borders or to arrest those who were not stopped from entering. This facilitates smuggling.
The GOP letter to the NGOs emphasized that taxpayers should not subsidize organizations that ease the movement of illegal immigrants. When NGOs transport illegal aliens into the interior, the task of federal immigration enforcement agencies to monitor them becomes more difficult, and communities are put in greater danger.
NGOs working with illegal immigrants along the border is SOP for the organizations. However, their involvement in the invasion is under greater scrutiny now because of the historic surge of illegal immigrants during the Biden-created border crisis. More than 2.8 million migrant encounters occurred in FY 2022, and FY 2023 is tracking to exceed last year’s totals. Thousands are lined up along the Southwest border’s Mexican side, knowing that if they can reach American soil, they’ll likely be allowed to remain.
Statistics show that few border surgers are deported. That includes illegal aliens with fraudulent asylum claims. Most are released after their arrest on their own recognizance. More than 60,000 illegal aliens were freed in April, with only a token 8,000 removed under Expedited Removal. The expedited removals were mostly Mexicans citizens who didn’t claim asylum. Those let into the country received “humanitarian release” into the interior, a category that includes mostly families and unaccompanied minors.
Taxpayer-funded NGOs working in tandem with the lawless federal government make the free and easy flow of illegal migrants into the general population possible. Most released aliens are granted parole, an immigration provision which includes work permission that allows them to compete with U.S. citizens for blue-collar jobs, an unjust reality that the Biden administration wholeheartedly endorses.
Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at guzzjoe@yahoo.com.
This column's subject matter is a major reason why I no longer attend Catholic services. These NGOs may argue they are only doing God's work, but since when did such work include helping to destroy this republic that allows their participants to live as well as they do and, most importantly, worship as freely as they do? This is not about altruism, compassion, kindness, etc. It's about money. If you want to see greater detail about the damage these NGOs are doing, please read the third chapter of Michelle Malkin's "Open Borders Inc. - Who's Funding America's Destruction?"
I’m glad I learned of your substack on a recent podcast. I enjoy learning more about what’s going on, or should I say “what’s Really Going On”. I see that you have decades of experience with this topic, I am wondering if on a personal level, you ever get frustrated, discouraged or just plain ready to quit.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/feds-announce-massive-takedown-fraudulent-nursing-diploma-scheme/story?id=96619487
The link is to the fraudulent nurses that purchased nursing credentials, I believe I knew some of them personally.
On the subject of immigration, I often ask myself if there is an overriding benefit to promoting large volumes of immigrants, legal or otherwise. Some theories I’ve considered are relevant to genetics, for instance every population needs genetic diversity to avoid inbreeding and diseases that occur, or perhaps it’s infertility that is affecting up to 10% of Americans. In my local community, which is rural, there are young couples unable to conceive. We’ve had an explosion of autism diagnoses nationally, plus a mental health and obesity epidemic…. That’s the things I think about when I get distressed about the volumes of people just pouring in. Maybe we need new blood to keep our population thriving. Maybe the USA I has a vested interest in facilitating this population transfer?
When I think that this is just about money, it makes me sick.
What of the history of immigration, I read somewhere that there was a law that allowed unrestricted entry and settlement in the USA until 1888 and have to assume there was a reason of some sort.
Clearly I’m not anti immigrant but it was tough going through the job drama where Americans weren’t put on the schedule, in favor of fraudulently licensed migrants in Florida. Anti American discrimination is the rule not the exception where I lived before I moved 3 years ago…. It was really hard on me and lonely being outcast in my own country, scorned by the new arrivals. I don’t mean to vent but every once in a while I need to get it off my chest.