Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Watchdog: Obama Spent $100 Million to Transport Foreign Migrants to Their U.S. Destinations

Breitbart News ^ | December 12, 2016 | Katie McHugh 

The Immigration Reform Law Institute revealed that a border protection agency has spent more than $100 million in taxpayers’ cash transporting young Central American migrants from the Texas border to ... destinations in the USA..... “the administration has been less than forthcoming [for 2 years] and why they’ve repeatedly tried to blame the costly… surge [of migrants] on Central American crime rather than its own amnesty policies.”
The decision to spend $100 million since 2014 to help the migrants adds “insult to injury,” ...
Under rules set by Obama, ICE must classify most Central American migrants as asylum seekers,... assigns agents to work at holding centers, pays for hotel rooms to house migrants, and escorts them to people in the U.S. interior who claim to be the migrants’ relatives, including resident illegal aliens and employers of illegal immigrants.
[25% on hotels; 58% on plane tickets.]
The government is burning through taxpayer cash, according to the Washington Times:
Government figures obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute:... ICE spent ... $665 per juvenile in 2014,...
ICE will spend about $4.5 million flying children nabbed at the border in October, and north of $100 million since 2014…
Obama’s deputies are delivering an average of 255 illegal alien minors per day...
The relentless surge of migration also means domestic programs that help vulnerable Americans being cut to fund the migration: The Democratic administration slashed funds from cancer research, disabilities services to spend at least $167 million so HHS can feed, house, clothe, transport, and amuse the migrants.
Another immigration reform group found that in October alone, immigration authorities temporarily apprehended 46,195 illegal aliens attempting to cross the border, the most extreme surge since June 2014. More than 300,000 migrants have been let into the country.... since 2012.
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