Last week, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announced the allocation of over $380 million of taxpayer funds through the Shelter and Services Program to communities and nonprofits accepting illegal aliens who are awaiting immigration court proceedings.
The money is in addition to another $259 million given to these communities and nonprofits in April for a total of $639 million in five months. The national debt now stands at $35.2 trillion, or $269,000 per taxpayer.
“Through the SSP, DHS directly supports communities that are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute medical care, and transportation to noncitizens recently released from DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings,” the federal government explained in its news release.
The more than half a billion dollars is to “help prevent the overcrowding of short-term CBP holding facilities.”
Last year, more than $780 million awarded through SSP and the Emergency Food and Shelter Program – Humanitarian Awards (EFSP-H). This brings the total for 2023 and 2024 to over $1.3 billion.
“DHS efforts to manage and secure our borders in a safe, orderly, and humane way include support for communities, as well as strengthened consequences for those without a legal basis to remain and an expansion of lawful pathways that have helped reduce the number of encounters from specific populations,” the federal government said. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)’s shows a significant decline in migrant encounters during the first full month after a Presidential Proclamation issued June 4, 2024, by President Biden to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border.”
U.S. Border Patrol encounters in July were 32% lower than in June 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since September 2020. July’s total numbers between ports of entry are also lower than July 2019, and lower than the monthly average for all of 2019, the last comparable year prior to the pandemic,” the government wrote. What the government does not say is that in August of 2023, illegal border crossings reached an all-time high.
The demand for funding from impacted communities far outstrips the grants available, the Department of Homeland Security said in a press release.
5 billion dollars for the border wall was a great deal. Our children will be paying for the democrats illegal invaders for decades. If you’re still a democrat, there’s no help for you.
There will always be Democrats at the rate they are pouring into America.
Money should go to American contractors that are having to compete with non-licensed and bonded illegal aliens.
At this point, why not? The fabric of society is tearing and we’re so far in debt it’s unrecoverable.
So just party like it’s September 1929, Democrats. Spend it all, bring everyone and their jihad brothers into the country and burn everything down in a blaze of irresponsible glory.
Then maybe responsible people, if any are left, can salvage whatever is left of the country.
Sad. But true.
Giving their own extorted money back after sticking them with supporting a bunch of invaders
Create the problem, then explain how the government is helping communities (with your tax dollars). Sounds like a big FU to american voters, the problem is half those voters are too stupid to recognize they are getting the shaft.
Shockingly(!) … I see in the picture of this story ‘one’ CBP Officer chasing a ‘multitude’ of illegal aliens. Seems like it would be much more effective to simply shoot them. I bet if this was implemented, you’d get better compliance.
Rob; I get what you mean, or a good president like Herbert Hoover could implement a repatriation act and send them back to they’re home countries.
Or(!), we have a ‘bad’ president (potentially future president) that allows and encourages this illegal behavior with, ‘bad’ senators – representative support. At the end of the day ‘we’ taxpayers are left with the expense and the risk!
Some people might get kinda upset with this approach, but I agree it might be quite effective in making our undocumented und unscreened “guests” comply with instructions.
WHEN(!?!?) … do us ‘taxpayers’ and ‘legal residents’ get upset with this unlawful and illegal ‘invasion’ (as well as our senators – representative doing ‘NOTHING’) while ‘we’ taxpayers are left with the expense and risk???
How about we “Go Green” and save precious ammo by electrifying the fence?
With a few components excepted, like The Border Patrol, I generally view the Department of Homeland Security as a criminal enterprise interested in doing harm to US citizens. The agency, and particularly Secretary Mayorkas, seem intent on waging war against the country.
I have been unable to find where Mayorkas was ever granted citizenship in the US.
I wonder what the cost per vote this will cost all said and done?
While reaping $$$ from the omnibus packages, the sanctuary states rack up the debt and cry until more Pork is granted to them. When is this going to stop?
PJ, it won’t stop because the NGO’s receiving these corpulent grants are headed up by prominent DEMOCRATS. These folks have created an industry which enables them to get paid big salaries funded by you the taxpayer. The more illegals the greater the need for more grants, job security for the wretched ” non- profit” honchos.
But, they are making a difference, so it’s cool…
“Program to communities and nonprofits accepting illegal aliens who are awaiting immigration court proceedings”, nonprofits is the key term identifier. Tens of millions of people migrating into the US, arguably the largest mass migration in history is fully funded by our government, largely through grants to “nonprofits”. The photo ops of pregnant women, children walking north are narrative affirming props. None of these people are walking until a few hundred yards from the border. There is a remarkably well organized migration system, to transport, feed and shelter the beneficiaries of this industry. Every country on the itinerary is waiving their immigration and custom laws to facilitate and profiting from the system. We have not had a federal budget passed by Congress since 2007. Continuing resolutions approve previous spending packages and add to them every year. In these massive resolutions are hundreds of billions allocated to immigration, approved by both Republicans and Dems in Congress. The border functions as designed if you are a US citizen entering a port of entry, you will pay duties, prove your a citizen, searched for drugs, smokes, alcohol and cash or if insurance is valid on the vehicle. The migrants are simply invited priority beneficiaries of programs, it is our Congress and Agencies which together have become an international criminal syndicate violating federal laws. If the migrants were Trump supporters, how long would Congress continue this? This also defines the contempt the GOP has for its’ voters.
Another Democrat Party money laundering operation!
Those 4 star hotels get expensive. We also can’t have our illegals in Walmart clothes. No, name brand and a pair of Nikes to complement them. Expensive backpacks round out the ensemble.
No person is “illegal” it is not possible to define someone as such, but your actions possibly can be. How many times do you have to be reminded that it was the Republicans who failed to secure the border, Trump didn’t do it, and they also failed to pass the border bill CBP wanted. When are you going to start looking up facts and stop following trash?
Correct, people are not illegal. The congress passes continuing resolutions funding NGOs, for thousands of projects. One of which is facilitating and transporting tens of millions into our country, contrary to federal law. Which makes the congress a criminal syndicate. The individuals themselves are committing federal crimes by crossing borders outside of official ports of entry and without visas. Depending on what they carry with them, drug smuggling, firearm violatons, human smuggling and currency laws are also broken. The administrative state, as has evolved over decades with Republican and Democratic congressional control is on auto pilot. Impervious to reform within constitutional boundaries. Presidential authority is very limited, as they are simply ignored by agencies without repercussions.
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