Makes perfect bureaucratic sense. Colorful, quaint, "refugee" Somali border bandits, camel rustlers; goat-buggering, polygamous girl mutilators picking up welfare checks.
Good luck with that.
FedGov brings ‘em in, plops them down, gives them enough taxpayer money to survive for a little while... and then cuts them loose - with no job skills, no English language capability, etc. A sort of ruthless, Darwinian approach - the sort of thing of which the robber barons of evil capitalism were once accused. Except the robber barons at least provided actual jobs...