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The Biden administration is investing more taxpayer money to transport, feed and provide homes for illegal immigrants around the United States. President Joe Biden has been providing tens of millions of dollars for nonprofit organizations to help in the transportation and resettlement of the illegal migrants into American communities.
Was the Federal Emergency Management Agency established to deal with illegal migrants?
The administration
is sending the funds through the Federal Emergency Management Agency via a
program created in the 1980s to deal with homeless people, according to The
Washington Times.
The program
has now been overtaken by the need to help illegal immigrants who have been
caught and released at the border, take their first steps toward settling in
the U.S.
Mr. Biden
demanded for extra funds for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program at FEMA,
arguing that the border situation could no longer be handled with the current
funding, The Washington Times reported.
The
administration also wants more money for U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement so the deportation agency can help shuttle migrants around the
country. The president specifically demanded for $1.8 billion more for the
Health and Human Services Department to house illegal immigrant children and
provide assistance more broadly to other border jumpers, according to The
Washington Times.
The request
for extra funding is part of the administration’s proposal for continuing
government funding into fiscal 2023, which starts October 1.
The White
House blamed “emerging needs along the southern border” for the immigration
spending plan in a document submitted to Congress.
Sen. Shelley
Moore Capito, the top Republican from Virginia on the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs appropriations subcommittee, said the money the White
House is requesting does not address the fundamental surge in trafficking of
persons in the border area.
“The Biden
administration needs to address the crisis at the border more broadly than in
any CR anomaly,” she told The Washington Times in a statement. “We have
surpassed over 2 million migrants for the fiscal year, yet they continue to
avoid the decisions that can help us actually stem this crisis.”
How many illegal migrants entered the U.S. in July?
In July,
U.S. officials encountered nearly 200,000 illegal migrants at the border who
were mostly caught and then released into the U.S.
The surge in
migrants at the Texas and Arizona borders prompted the affected states to bus
migrants to Democratic sanctuary cities; a move the White House said undermined
the Homeland Security Department’s ability to keep track of the released
migrants.
The administration
is now using the 1980’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program as a chief vehicle
for helping illegal migrants who were caught and released at the border to
travel to any part of the country of their choice.
The program
provides bus, plane or train at economy seat pricing for the illegal migrants
as well as provide housing and food.