That’s not vacation pay, that’s COMBAT PAY!
There are millions of American citizens who could use a hand, but that won't look as good as 'rescuing' a bunch of so-called 'refugees' who turn out to be all males who could have served in their country's military and saved it. Instead, they ran away, leaving their families behind to jump on the Gravy Train to America, land of the freebies and home of the clockwork welfare checks.
Then again, who would they want to work in their own country. Come to America, play dumb, be supported until you die of old age.
I remember meeting, talking with, and working with folks who were thrilled to have immigrated here. Many of them proudly showed me their green cards. So not like the scum we have infiltration our nation now, with the express consent and urging of the douchebag in the off-white house.
"Why are the republicans in congress funding this?"
When you say republicans, are you referring to the conservative front-end of the corrupt Washington cartel?
The bottom line is that the Founding States did not intend for anything in Congresss constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to be interpreted as giving Congress the specific power to tax and spend for vote-winning welfare purposes for citizens or aliens.
The reason that Congress is wrongly providing welfare funding is this. The corrupt, post-17th Amendment Senate is hurting the states by not doing its Job to protect the states as the Founding States had intended for it to do. In this case senators are hurting the states by helping to pass unconstitutional legislation that steals 10th Amendment-protected state funding for unconstitutional federal welfare spending.
Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States. - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help the likewise corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills which steal state revenues along with it.
[[What the heck is Congress doing, with their power of purse? Why are the republicans in congress funding this?]]
Some figure the true cost of illegal immigrants (not the refuges) cost this country between $400 BILLION and $600 BILLION dollars every single year- and now we are going to add refugees as well apparently