Hundreds of millions of cash from the federal government are being given to illegal immigrants and border crossers by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated this week that the department will be allocating $350 million to the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, which would be used to pay for aid services for illegal immigrants and border crossers who arrive in cities and towns around the United States.
Here is what Mayorkas had to say:
Already, DHS has paid $75 million “to pay expenditures incurred by communities and non-governmental groups” under the program.
Social support services for freshly released border crossers and illegal aliens will cost an estimated $800 million, a sum allowed by Congress and paid for using public cash.
As American towns struggle to absorb the thousands of border crossers and illegal immigrants who are released each month into the U.S. interior through Biden’s enormous Catch and Release network along the southern border, the financial sources through this program have become necessary.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found that thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens had been sent to all 50 states by a wide variety of NGOs in collaboration with Biden’s DHS.
Recent calculations suggest that between February 2021 and January 2023, the Biden administration discharged approximately two million illegal border crossers and immigrants into the interior of the United States.