Biden Shovels Millions to Nonprofits to Aid His Open-Border Schemes. Congress Must Cut Off Cash Spigot.

For more than two years now, the Biden administration has been encouraging and mass-releasing millions of illegal aliens into the country.

The House Homeland Security Committee, led by its chairman, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., just debated the role of NGOs in the border crisis and successfully voted the Border Reinforcement Act out of committee.

Given the facilitation of mass migration and reported misuse of funds by NGOs, it's worth noting just a few examples of the federal grant money given to the most prominent groups.

In its 2021 financial statement, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service reported it received more than $93.1 million in U.S. government grants, and $23.2 million in church, foundation, corporate, and other contributions, making taxpayer-funded grants more than 80% of its total support.

In fiscal year 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services alone issued the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service a whopping $182.6 million in grants for unaccompanied alien children and refugee services.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Migration and Refugee Services lists 10 federal grants for migration and refugee services on its website, including eight from HHS; one State Department grant; and one DHS grant.

When the Biden administration's open-border policies and operations, including use of NGOs, have clearly resulted in the trafficking of children and women, lost children, child labor, and historic numbers of unaccompanied alien children, these NGO grants warrant rigorous scrutiny from Congress.

In the same rule, the administration describes the role of NGOs "Both along the border and in the interior of the United States" as "Key partners, providing shelter and other key social services to migrants and facilitating the onward movement of those conditionally released from DHS custody.”

Based on the administration's own descriptions of the cartels and nongovernmental organization "Movement" services, it's not unreasonable to allege that the administration is paying NGOs to smuggle illegal aliens the final miles of their journey.

The Heritage Foundation has confirmed the onward movement of illegal aliens processed through southern border NGOs based on one month of phone-tracking data.

In 2022, Heritage reported that approximately 30,000 aliens who went through dozens of known NGOs at or near the southern border then traveled to every congressional district in at least the contiguous 48 states.

The few members of Congress who have challenged the NGOs and voted to defund their open-border federal grants deserve commendation and more support.