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Home Todd Bensman In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
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Haitian complaining that he did not get UN payment
Luis Ponce of Haiti outside the United Nations facility in Tapachula, Mexico, to complain the agency had not made his January debit card deposit. Photo by Todd Bensman.
TAPACHULA, Mexico — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is handing out cash debit cards and other funds for lodging and prescription medicines to U.S.-bound migrants who spill out into this southern Mexican city by the hundreds of thousands.
Every day, word of the UN’s cash assistance draws long lines of hopeful U.S.-bound migrants to a large, grey building staffed by application-takers and interviewers who determine who gets the money.
Haitian Luis Ponce was in line one recent day, not to get his application going, but to complain to the officials inside that the UN is in arrears. The international agency had not recharged his debit card-linked local bank account, a yellow and gray plastic affair with a UNHCR/ACNUR insignia in the upper third left corner, with the 3,600 pesos owed (about $180).
“We don’t have money now,” Ponce complained, flashing the empty card.
And, as the Center for Immigration Studies has previously reported after first seeing the cash cards distributed at a Reynosa, Mexico, migrant camp, the United Nations is sharply escalating the amounts of cash and other direct financial assistance to immigrants all along the migrant trail from Panama to Texas, at an uncharted series of some 100 waystations like this one in Tapachula. It is part of a program the United Nations calls “cash-based interventions” (CBI). UN documents say the program is meant to “restore feelings of choice and empowerment to beneficiaries”, a part of which may well mean that migrants are able to keep moving north rather than returning home.
Not much has been publicly reported about CBI, such as the extent to which it is used. But I have reported that families can receive hundreds of dollars a month for “unrestricted ... unconditional” use in local country areas depending on where they are on the trail (in the northern Mexican town of Reynosa, families were getting $400 every 15 days). One UN document said the money can be handed out in envelopes and transferred to bank accounts for lodging assistance and even for transportation costs to move with migrant concentrations. The United Nations began ramping up CBI in 2019, spending $60 million on 29,000 migrants in Latin America, and then doubling the outlays in 2020, with plans to vastly increase its use in the Americas during 2022 and beyond.
Growing American Knowledge — and Rising Resentment. But as word of this under-reported UN cash assistance program has spread, it has given rise to gathering outrage among some Americans, including a growing group of Republican members of Congress. They see the aid as U.S.-taxpayer-funded material support for illegal immigration over the southern border that has helped fuel the greatest mass-migration event in U.S. history, which is ongoing
. One outgrowth of the congressional outrage is the recently introduced No Tax Dollars for the United Nations Immigration Invasion Act, sponsored by Texas Rep. Lance Gooden (R) and 11 other House Republican co-sponsors. It would prohibit the $3.8 billion in contributions currently proposed in the White House’s 2022 budget to UN-supported organizations.
“All of this sounds like they’re using U.S. tax dollars to encourage this invasion into the nation, and it seems strange to me that we would support an organization that encourages and funds this,” Gooden said in a recent interview. “It’s totally crazy. I am baffled that there’s not more outrage, but I think the lack of outrage is due to the lack of knowledge.”
Finally, the UN Speaks, Somewhat. To date, the United Nations has remained mum about any of this nascent public controversy. But in Tapachula, the agency’s local public information officer for Mexico, Silvia Garduno, agreed to answer some written questions about the program for the Center for Immigration Studies, but did not answer follow-up questions by publication time. What Garduno did say follows:
had no idea we are funding the invasion of our country thru the UniN
So the UN is now openly funding the invasion of the US. Can we declare war on them now?