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It's a good thing MAGA is back to clean up this mess that the democrats
have created.


'Billions of dollars spent on controversial aid for immigrants'
'Taxpayers funded legal advice, tuition, business costs, even direct
cash assistance'

<https://www.wnd.com/2025/03/billions-of-dollars-spent-on-controversial-aid-for-immigrants/>

'Topline: The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on
grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency's five-year total to
$22.6 billion since 2020, according to new findings from OpenTheBooks.

Key facts: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, is part of the Administration for Children and Families, and its grant spending for
immigrants includes legal aid, "cultural orientation," loans for college tuition and small businesses, and even direct cash assistance — arguably incentivizing immigrants to cross the border and seek asylum.

The agency has recently tried to make its services even easier to
access. Immigrants relying on ORR are required to become self-sufficient
"as quickly as possible," but the agency tried to remove the requirement
in its 2023 budget request.

The ORR has spent $12.4 billion since 2020 on grants for unaccompanied
minors, the New York Post reported, while serious mistakes took place.

The New York Times reported in 2023 that 85,000 children went missing
after being sent to sponsors approved by ORR. Tom Homan, the new "border
czar" under President Donald Trump, said he believes the number of
missing children is actually 300,000.

Background: ORR's former director Robin Dunn Marcos no longer works at
the agency, according to an automated email response OpenTheBooks
received this February.

When Dunn Marcos was in charge in 2023 and 2024, ORR awarded $337
million in grants to her former employer of 23 years, International
Rescue Committee, more than any other recipient. Their total funding
since 2020 amounted to $598 million.

Church World Service, where Dunn Marcos worked for four years, was
another top awardee, at $355 million since 2020.

ORR told OpenTheBooks in an email that Dunn Marcos was not involved in
any conversations about funding for her former employers. OpenTheBooks
filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Dunn Marcos' emails in
May 2023 but we have yet to receive any records.

Search all federal, state and local government salaries and vendor
spending with the AI search bot, Benjamin, at OpenTheBooks.com.

Summary: Tax dollars should be spent transparently on services that help
legal immigrants and those legitimately seeking asylum, not sent to
nonprofits with varying ideological agendas to attract more migrants

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On 2025-03-03, John Smyth <[email protected]> wrote:

It's a good thing MAGA is back to clean up this mess that the democrats
have created.

'Billions of dollars spent on controversial aid for immigrants'
'Taxpayers funded legal advice, tuition, business costs, even direct
cash assistance'

<https://www.wnd.com/2025/03/billions-of-dollars-spent-on-controversial-aid-for-immigrants/>

'Topline: The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on
grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency's five-year total to
$22.6 billion since 2020, according to new findings from OpenTheBooks.

Key facts: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, is part of the Administration for Children and Families, and its grant spending for immigrants includes legal aid, "cultural orientation," loans for college tuition and small businesses, and even direct cash assistance — arguably incentivizing immigrants to cross the border and seek asylum.

The agency has recently tried to make its services even easier to
access. Immigrants relying on ORR are required to become self-sufficient
"as quickly as possible," but the agency tried to remove the requirement
in its 2023 budget request.

The ORR has spent $12.4 billion since 2020 on grants for unaccompanied minors, the New York Post reported, while serious mistakes took place.

The New York Times reported in 2023 that 85,000 children went missing
after being sent to sponsors approved by ORR. Tom Homan, the new "border czar" under President Donald Trump, said he believes the number of
missing children is actually 300,000.

Background: ORR's former director Robin Dunn Marcos no longer works at
the agency, according to an automated email response OpenTheBooks
received this February.

When Dunn Marcos was in charge in 2023 and 2024, ORR awarded $337
million in grants to her former employer of 23 years, International
Rescue Committee, more than any other recipient. Their total funding
since 2020 amounted to $598 million.

Church World Service, where Dunn Marcos worked for four years, was
another top awardee, at $355 million since 2020.

ORR told OpenTheBooks in an email that Dunn Marcos was not involved in
any conversations about funding for her former employers. OpenTheBooks
filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Dunn Marcos' emails in
May 2023 but we have yet to receive any records.

Search all federal, state and local government salaries and vendor
spending with the AI search bot, Benjamin, at OpenTheBooks.com.

Summary: Tax dollars should be spent transparently on services that help legal immigrants and those legitimately seeking asylum, not sent to nonprofits with varying ideological agendas to attract more migrants

And this is exactly why people are fed up with the government, all of it.
While it's nice to help out other nations, when our own nation is in trouble it's time to fix our problems and then when things stabilize we can once again begin to help other nations.
And this applies only to reasonable requests for aid that have oversight.

The list above screams of slush funds and pay to play.
--
Pothead
Liberalism is a mental disease.
"The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline" https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/

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pothead <[email protected]> wrote in
news:vq2vpl$118ri$[email protected]:

And this is exactly why people are fed up with the government, all of
it.

Conservatives SAY they "fed up with government"

Then they go back to their home districts,
BRAGGING about all the federal spending they
are bringing with them.



Republicans Are Taking Credit for
Infrastructure Bill They All Voted
Against
June 28, 2023

Senator Tommy Tuberville lauded the
news Tuesday, celebrating the law�s
impact on Alabama�s rural communities.

Representative Nancy Mace on Wednesday
hosted a press conference celebrating
the law�s allocation of nearly $26
million to a Charleston, South Carolina,
regional bus hub featuring electric buses.
Mace has previously called the bipartisan
infrastructure law "absurd" and a fiasco"

Senator John Cornyn also tweeted an
article boasting about Texas receiving a
whopping $3.3 billion for broadband, more
than any other state in the nation. https://newrepublic.com/post/173963/republicans-taking-credit- infrastructure-bill-voted-against

While it's nice to help out other nations, when our own nation is
in trouble it's time to fix our problems and then when things
stabilize we can once again begin to help other nations.

Where is that "take care of America first"
when Trump shovels billions at Israel?

And this applies only to reasonable requests for aid that have
oversight.

The list above screams of slush funds and pay to play.

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