• Immigration Industrial Complex Struggling to 'Keep Their Lights On' Aft

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 28 21:14:45 2025
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    https://amac.us/newsline/society/immigration-industrial-complex- struggling-to-keep-their-lights-on-after-trump-decree/

    Did you know that your tax dollars have been propping up a system of
    nonprofit organizations that house and transport illegal aliens across the country? President Donald Trump has paused some of the programs that
    propped up that system, and now those nonprofits are taking him to court.

    HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Services) and Church World Service�two faith-based nonprofits that receive federal grants and oppose efforts to enforce immigration law�filed a lawsuit Monday aiming to block Trump�s
    order pausing the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

    The lawsuit admits that Trump�s action has essentially defunded what I
    call the Immigration Industrial Complex�and left them struggling to pay
    their bills.

    �In the meantime, Plaintiffs HIAS Inc. and Church World Service
    Inc.�national faith-based nonprofit organizations that receive a majority
    of their funding from the federal government�are already struggling to
    keep their lights on and their staff employed, let alone continue to serve
    the vulnerable refugees at the core of their missions,� the lawsuit
    states.

    The Immigration Industrial Complex
    As I explain in my book �The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating
    the Federal Government,� HIAS and Church World Service helped abet the
    border crisis by transporting illegal aliens across the country�paid for
    by your tax dollars.

    Alejandro Mayorkas, then-secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
    under then-President Joe Biden, went from assistant DHS secretary under President Barack Obama to the board of HIAS during the first Trump administration. In an April 2022 memorandum, Mayorkas listed groups like
    HIAS as part of his border security plan. In that plan, �Border Security
    Pillar 4� involves �bolstering the capacity of non-governmental
    organizations to receive noncitizens after they have been processed by
    [Customs and Border Protection] and are awaiting the results of their immigration removal proceedings.�

    Both HIAS and Church World Service lobbied against the border security legislation HR 2 in 2023.

    As I note in the book, HIAS received 33% of its total revenues in 2021
    from the State Department and the Department of Health and Human Services. Church World Service, meanwhile, received $20.5 million in government
    grants in the year ending in June 2022, about 40% of its $51 million in
    total assets.

    Church World Service received $25,000 from Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the left-leaning nonprofits founded by the for-profit company Arabella
    Advisors. The Sixteen Thirty Fund forms a part of what I call the Left�s
    dark money funding network�a series of nonprofits that fund the
    �Woketopus,� the woke activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

    Church World Service has urged Americans to contact their representatives
    in Congress, pressuring them to support $4.447 billion for the Migration
    and Refugee Assistance program�a program from which Church World Service received $28 million between November 2022 and September 2023.

    When approached for comment about the claims in my book, Church World
    Service emphasized that funding from the Migration and Refugee Assistance account only funds refugees resettled under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, and the �individuals arriving in the U.S. via these programs are
    in the United States lawfully, having been granted admission from the U.S. Government following rigorous vetting.�

    Church World Service did not address the grants it receives through other programs that are eligible to fund the transportation of illegal aliens,
    such as the �Unaccompanied Alien Children Program� run through the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and
    Human Services.

    Lora Ries, director of The Heritage Foundation�s Border Security and Immigration Center, countered that �the Left has greatly watered down the standards to grant refugee status to economic migrants who make weak
    claims of fear from ineligible conditions like general crime, civil
    strife, and climate change.�

    �Our refugee system has strayed significantly from what the U.S. committed
    to following World War II,� Ries added. �We need to return to a system
    with integrity, not use resettlement as just another pathway to bring more aliens into the U.S.�

    All these funds and programs are separate from the Federal Emergency
    Management Agency�s efforts. According to Elon Musk, the head of the
    Department of Government Efficiency, FEMA just last week spent $59 million
    to house illegal aliens in New York City hotels.

    The Lawsuit
    The lawsuit, Pacito v. Trump, seeks an injunction to block Trump�s
    executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.

    Download Full Document Here

    https://static-asset.amac.us/wp- content/uploads/2025/02/12130116/202502_Pacito-v.-Trump-1.pdf

    The order notes that the U.S. �has been inundated with record levels of migration� over the past four years, causing even major cities to declare states of emergency and seek federal assistance to �manage the burden of
    new arrivals.� The order suspends the refugee program �until such time as
    the further entry into the United States of refugees aligns with the
    interests of the United States.�

    In the lawsuit, HIAS and Church World Service joined with nine individuals
    who stood to benefit from the refugee program and Lutheran Community
    Services Northwest, another nonprofit that helps resettle refugees. Those plaintiffs are suing Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland
    Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and acting Secretary of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink.

    The plaintiffs claim the Trump administration violated the Refugee Act of
    1980, which established the refugee program; that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act; that it violated the due process clause; and
    that it violated the separation of powers established by the Constitution.

    Perkins Coie, the law firm that infamously hired Fusion GPS to compile the dossier suggesting that Trump had been a Russian asset, is representing
    the Immigration Industrial Complex in the lawsuit. The International
    Refugee Assistance Project is also representing the plaintiffs.

    Tyler O�Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of two books: �Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law
    Center,� and �The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.�


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