Topline: The Workplace of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal 12 months 2024, bringing the company’s five-year whole to $22.6 billion since 2020, in keeping with new findings from OpenTheBooks.
Key info: The Workplace of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, is a part of the Administration for Youngsters and Households, and its grant spending for immigrants consists of authorized help, “cultural orientation,” loans for faculty tuition and small companies, and even direct money help — arguably incentivizing immigrants to cross the border and search asylum.
The company has just lately tried to make its providers even simpler to entry. Immigrants counting on ORR are required to develop into self-sufficient “as shortly as potential,” however the company tried to take away the requirement in its 2023 finances request.
The ORR has spent $12.4 billion since 2020 on grants for unaccompanied minors, the New York Post reported, whereas critical errors befell.
The New York Times reported in 2023 that 85,000 youngsters went lacking after being despatched to sponsors permitted by ORR. Tom Homan, the brand new “border czar” beneath President Donald Trump, said he believes the variety of lacking youngsters is definitely 300,000.
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Background: ORR’s former director Robin Dunn Marcos now not works on the company, in keeping with an automatic e mail response OpenTheBooks obtained this February.
When Dunn Marcos was in charge in 2023 and 2024, ORR awarded $337 million in grants to her former employer of 23 years, Worldwide Rescue Committee, greater than every other recipient. Their whole funding since 2020 amounted to $598 million.
Church World Service, the place Dunn Marcos labored for 4 years, was one other prime awardee, at $355 million since 2020.
ORR instructed OpenTheBooks in an e mail that Dunn Marcos was not concerned in any conversations about funding for her former employers. OpenTheBooks filed a Freedom of Info Act request for Dunn Marcos’ emails in Could 2023 however we’ve but to obtain any information.
Abstract: Tax {dollars} must be spent transparently on providers that assist authorized immigrants and people legitimately searching for asylum, not despatched to nonprofits with various ideological agendas to draw extra migrants.
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