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Exclusive: GOP Lawmakers Demand Details About U.S. Funding Of Migrant Shelters In Mexico
The Federalist ^ | February 24, 2022 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 02/24/2022 9:48:49 AM PST by Kaslin

The Biden dministration is sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to northern Mexico as part of the reinstated Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, a Trump-era program requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated.

The problem is, the administration won’t say how much, or what these funds are being spent on, or who is receiving them. Republican lawmakers have been asking the State Department for answers to these questions since December, but so far heard nothing in response. On Tuesday night, a dozen Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken demanding more information.

The background here is that President Biden terminated the MPP program, commonly known as Remain in Mexico, soon after taking office, but a federal judge ruled last August that the administration had acted in violation of federal law and ordered it to restart the program. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case but did not block the lower court’s ruling that the program be reinstated.

So far, it seems, the Biden administration is dragging its feet, even as the border crisis drags on with record numbers of illegal immigrants being arrested every month. In their letter, the Republican lawmakers said they have “serious concerns with the Department of State’s refusal to provide information on U.S. foreign assistance funds” being used for Remain in Mexico. The GOP lawmakers, led by ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul, have been asking for information about the reinstatement of the program since December, when the Biden administration announced it had reached an agreement with Mexico to resume Remain in Mexico.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aliens; funding; mexico

1 posted on 02/24/2022 9:48:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If you call the illegal invaders “migrants” the debate is already lost.


2 posted on 02/24/2022 9:52:22 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Kaslin

Do they include voter registration kiosks?


3 posted on 02/24/2022 9:58:11 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

“Do they include voter registration kiosks?”

Why bother? A few bytes here…a few bytes there…


4 posted on 02/24/2022 10:09:27 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Kaslin

Forget all this noise. Start talking about impeachment and treason.


5 posted on 02/24/2022 10:09:41 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Kaslin

Ukraine’s borders are sacred

Ours are not.


6 posted on 02/24/2022 10:13:43 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Kaslin

This has been going on since the ‘80s.
Which is more likely?
1) The GOP has finally discovered it.
2) They are worried about their base discovering they were involved since the ‘80s.


7 posted on 02/24/2022 10:37:44 AM PST by Zathras
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To: cgbg

If they haven’t yet crossed the border into the United States, they could be considered migrants. As long as they keep waiting their turn down there, however many years that might take.


8 posted on 02/24/2022 10:42:55 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Kaslin

How about investigating the NGO’s who are greeting and moving these illegal aliens all over the country. Tell us exactly who they are, how they operate and how much they are paid for this nefarious work they do!!!


9 posted on 02/24/2022 12:30:27 PM PST by elpadre (And here in NCini)
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To: FoxInSocks
Taking in poorly-educated 3rd Worlders who defy assimilation while chasing the dole drags America down. Prior to Ted Kennedy's ruining our merit-based immigration policy back in 1965 we didn't have enough illegals crashing to warrant the term "invasion". Today with over 40 million already here the deluge has a vast base to "hide among - in plain sight of law enforcement rendered impotent by a wrongful double standard.

The wall must be completed while immigration policy is brought back to a semblance of sanity. A government that abandons 80 billions-worth of armaments to terrorists can't complain over 2 billion to finish what should have been accomplished twenty years ago. There is no acceptable excuse.

10 posted on 02/25/2022 12:12:05 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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