Immigration Bill Contains Slush Funds for Pro-Amnesty Groups

Center for Immigration Studies ^ | (May 1, 2013) | Center for Immigration Studies

[chicagolady]

The pro-amnesty lobbyists who helped craft the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill included within the bill two "slush funds" amounting to $150 million that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer dollars for years to come. Slush fund grantees are "public or private, non-profit organizations" described in the bill as including "a community, faith-based, or other immigrant-serving organization whose staff has demonstrated qualifications, experience, and expertise in providing quality services to immigrants, refugees, persons granted asylum, or persons applying for such statuses." In other words, the grantees would include many of the groups involved in writing and promoting the amnesty. [IRS]

Section 2537 of the Schumer-Rubio bill provides "Initial Entry, Adjustment, and Citizenship Assistance" grants to public and private, non-profit organizations that promise to help illegal immigrants apply for the amnesty (p. 384). For example, this includes help with "completing applications", "gathering proof of identification", and "applying for any waivers". But the recipients of these funds are given a lot of discretion, as the funds can also be used for "any other assistance" that the grantee "considers useful" to aliens applying for amnesty. The bill appropriates $100 million in grant funding for a five-year period ending in 2018, plus any additional "sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019 and subsequent fiscal years". (p. 392). There are no limits to the amount of money that may be given out to pro-amnesty groups.

Section 2106 of the Schumer-Rubio bill creates the "Grant Program to Assist Eligible Applicants" and the funds also go to public and private non-profit organizations (p. 131). The grants are to be used for promoting the amnesty through public information campaigns and helping illegal immigrants with the application process.

[Regulator]

So we can call it the Sedition and Treason funding bill.

When will the “Republican” party fund say, the John Birch Society, founded in devotion to the American nation and utterly against the Communist onslaught of Stalin?

Self impressed DC trash like McVain would go into meltdown at such a suggestion.

But give millions to agents of a hostile foreign power trying to subvert and colonize this country? No problem, right Johnny?

[Da Coyote]

“Washington DC is an open sewer.”

Agreed.

And we know which t*rd is floating on the top.

CW-II...I’m afraid it’s not going to be avoidable.

[lowbridge]

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