Posted on 07/12/2024 6:47:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is investigating how the United Nations is working with the Biden administration to “fast-track” thousands of migrants into the United States as the country reels from the ongoing border crisis.
Jordan demanded the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which are each part of the UN, hand over documents showing how they have coordinated with the Biden administration to resettle thousands of foreign nationals into the U.S., according to two letters obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday. Both the UNHCR and the IOM work with the State Department to resettle migrants into the U.S. via the Safe Mobility Offices, an initiative launched by the Biden administration.
The letter argued that the agencies took advantage of “illegal” immigration pathways created by the Biden administration, such as abuse of the parole system.
“Despite an unprecedented border crisis and the Biden Administration’s release of millions of illegal aliens into the United States, the Administration continues to create additional unlawful avenues to fast-track even more arrivals into the country,” the letter to UNHCR stated.
The letters to the UNHCR and IOM requested all communications the two organizations have had with the State Department and other offices regarding the Safe Mobility Offices initiative, as well as the amount of funding they’ve devoted to the initiative and other relative documentation. California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock co-signed the letters.
“Under President Biden, the State Department has announced its Safe Mobility Offices initiative, which allows illegal aliens to bypass the southwest border and, according to UNHCR, ‘avoid the risks associated with onward movement,’” the letter continued. “In other words, this new program fast-tracks aliens into the United States out of sight of the American people and without public transparency of the chaos at the border,” the letter continued.
Launched by the Biden administration in 2023, the Safe Mobility Offices initiative is a collection of processing centers in Latin America and elsewhere that give foreign nationals the opportunity to apply to migrate legally into the U.S., according to the State Department. Noncitizens are given different avenues for getting into the country, including through refugee resettlement, work visa programs, family visa programs or humanitarian parole.
“Far from simply expanding the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, Safe Mobility Offices give aliens outside the United States ‘several options’ to resettle in the United States, including through ‘family reunification, labor pathways,’ and expansion of the Biden Administration’s illegal abuses of humanitarian parole,” the letter stated.
UNHCR and IOM have both worked on outreach to foreign nationals about the initiative — while enjoying major funding from the American taxpayer. The U.S. doled out $1.9 billion in funding to UNHCR last year and gave $16 million in funds to IOM last year, according to the letters.
Over 21,000 individuals had been approved to resettle legally into the U.S. via the Safe Mobility Offices in Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala, according to Jordan’s office. By mid-April, the Safe Mobility Offices had already reached roughly 170,00 foreign nationals and conducted more than 33,000 refugee interviews.
Due to the significant number of migrants being facilitated through this initiative — and despite the country already facing financial and logistical strain over the refugee crisis emanating from the southern border — Jordan is demanding transparency.
The letters were addressed to UNHCR Commissioner Filippo Grandi and IOM Director General Amy Pope. Neither office immediately responded to a request for comment from the DCNF.
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Uh huh.
And there are how many days left in the current congress?
Exactly what is he supposed to do? Send it to Garland? Expect the alphabet media to cover it? Create a bill and send it to the Senate?
Ditto.
When you have an executive branch that is complicit in the problem, there is nothing congress can do but to publicize the fact.
At least people like Jordan and Comer are trying to expose the wrongdoing to the public. That’s about all anyone can do when the executive branch is in charge of policing itself and congressional rats and the senate won’t help.
EC
Fake news! Trump is going to import high skilled and exucated migrants per his big gov biz sugar daddies.
Remember when all the IT folks with great jobs had to train their replacements in the 90s… well this is the replacement of the remaining g job sectors.
Say goodbye to your decent job, your kids and grandkids also.
Jim “the eunuch” Jordan is useless.
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What else has anyone else done about this?
Anyone?
Did you even hear about the UN involvement in illegal immigration before this article?
Where’s he been?
Yes, of course. Anyone who has been paying attention has known that the UN, HIAS and Catholic Charities have been heavily involved in this for years.
Jim Jordan has known this too. His handlers have told him they want him to talk about it now.
You sound like the people in 2015 saying "You can't build a wall. The Hispanic voters will revolt."
Or the people in 2017 saying "You just have to fight in endless regime change wars. It's what we have always done."
Or the people in 2020 saying "You can't overturn RoeVWade. The women will revolt."
Every penny spent by the Biden admin to destroy our country has been authorized by Jim Jordan's Republican controlled House. They are as much to blame as the Biden admin.
Let me guess..."You can't just stop funding the executive branch. Voters will get mad."
I saw an article, probably about 6 months back, explaining how many NGOs, most of them no-profits, have been aiding migration. Groups like “Doctors without borders”. Do you like that? All this time all of us chumps just thought “without borders” meant that the doctors went anywhere. We didn’t know it was code for globalist free migration.
I’ve said this was a global effort for some time.
Someone was orchestrating this whole thing.
‘Jim Jordan investigating’ has come to mean about the same thing as ‘Lyndsey Graham promises’.
Pffft!
I’m not a defeatist. I’m a realist. Let’s brainstorm this.
Congress didn’t approve forgiveness of student debt. Despite a SCOTUS ruling, Biden did it anyway. Go ahead House. Defund what you didn’t fund in the first place. Next stop, Schumer’s trash can. Darn.
Okay, defund the executive branch. First, let’s overturn the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Of course that will also require Schumer and Biden to agree to it. Tough luck.
So sue. Who would have standing? The DOJ? The House? Would SCOTUS follow the Constitution, as we pray they are supposed to, and explain it is a separation of powers issue with a legislative solution, so pack sand?
It’s a given that the DOJ will not act. So where does that leave us? Publicize the issue. Politicians always have their finger in the air weighing public opinion. Change the opinion and the weasels in congress will cowardly follow.
Or we could just stomp our feet, criticize our own side, and make hairy chested posts on FR. That’ll get em to change things. Maybe even stay home on election day to really get even.
EC
Oh no! Jim Jordan is about to pen a strongly worded letter.
And barring that, the U.S. needs to withdraw from the U.N. and kick their evil HQ out of our country.
And I thought Trey Gowdy was bad
And I thought Trey Gowdy was bad
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You were correct. Lindsey is bad too. All hat, no cattle. Making a good living pro wrestlers without sweating.
Lindsey must have an apartment in every news building
The House has the power of the purse. They don’t need to pass the CRs.
The deep state always comes up with just enough votes to continue the destruction of the Republic.
Jordan and the other R’s could organize the party to stop funding this travesty. They don’t because they don’t really want to.
This is the best description I have heard of the situation…
A very large percentage of people would tell you they would want to go to Hawaii.
But of those people, only a very small percentage will actually save money, research hotels and flights, take time off work, etc…to actually do it.
When people like Jordan say they are “conservative” or want to “fix America” what they are really saying is…” I want to fix America as long as it is easy to do, the Democrats go along with it and it will cost me absolutely nothing to do it.”
They are worthless. They are traitors to the American people.
Yippee.
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