(Headline USA) A federal watchdog found that nonprofit charity organizations fraudulently spent more than $100 million in government funds that were meant to be used to feed and house illegal immigrants near the southern border.
A Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report released this week found that many of the organizations awarded with Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to submit receipts with reimbursement requests and spent funds on illegals who were ineligible for government assistance, the Washington Examiner reported.
Recipients “did not always provide the required receipts or documentation for claimed reimbursements,” and “some of the [local recipient organizations] were unable to provide supporting documentation for families and individuals to whom they provided services,” the report says.
A closer look at $12.9 million of the more than $80 million awarded to these organizations found that “they did not always use the funds consistent with” FEMA’s guidelines. And more than half of the $12.9 million — $7.4 million — was missing required paperwork.
Conservatives have raised concerns about the government’s funding of these organizations for years, accusing the groups of hauling in millions in taxpayer dollars to sponsor illegal immigration.
“It’s money laundering,” New York Post columnist Betsy McCaughey wrote last year. “Democratic politicians want to maximize illegal immigration, but they don’t want their fingerprints on it. The remedy: pay so-called charities that will do the work for them. Who’s in on this scam? President Joe Biden, and politicians across the country including Gov. Kathy Hochul, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and our own Mayor Eric Adams.”
One organization, for example, Organization for Migration, handed out debit cards loaded with $800 to migrants in Mexico — before they even crossed into the U.S.
To fight back against the organizations and leftists incentivizing illegal immigration, 25 state attorneys general filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month asking it to protect a federal law that’s been used to prosecute those who “encourage” or “induce” illegal immigration.
