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‘Refugee Resettlement’ Nonprofits In Panic As Trump Freezes Federal Grants and Loans

Last week’s executive order from President Trump halting refugee admissions into the U.S., combined with a State Dept. “stop work” order suspending all funding to resettlement agencies, is highlighting a much larger problem than illegal immigration alone.

Numerous nonprofits and non governmental organizations (NGOs) who work with refugees who have already arrived in the U.S. say they depend upon those taxpayer dollars distributed through the State Dept.

Journalist Nate Hochman, who helped produce the immigration crisis documentary “Erasing Charleroi” last year, says the reason for the panic is that very few of these groups are self-sufficient and they depend on “the federal tax-dollar gravy train.”

Hochman also points out that these are the same NGOs and nonprofits who have been actively transporting migrants into the country, fighting border enforcement efforts, supporting open border policies and actively resettling migrants in American cities and towns.

Those efforts, done on the taxpayer’s dime, include providing transportation to the U.S. border, waypoints with medical services and shelter along the way, maps showing the best routes to the U.S. and legal services to help migrants evade immigration laws when they arrive here.


Hochman says part of the services provided by these NGOs and nonprofits is the amount of cash cards, vouchers and straight up envelopes of cash that are handed directly to immigrants by these agencies.

Ten of these major immigration NGOs, known as voluntary agencies or VOLAGS, have contracts with the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration which gives them the taxpayer funding to resettle migrants in the U.S.

Voluntary Agencies who receive federal funding for resettling migrants

Hochman states that most of these groups are able to operate only because of the funding they receive from the federal government.

He points out that refugee NGOs have become a kind of fifth column in American politics where they can act as an extension of the federal government and that nearly every VOLAG is involved with the border crisis.

A federal judge may have paused President Trump’s executive order to freeze the federal grants that these NGOs have counted on but the bigger problem of American taxpayers being forced to subsidize the immigration crisis with their own money is finally coming into view.

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Photo: PHARR, TEXAS - JUNE 30: Former President Donald Trump speaks during a tour to an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30, 2021 in Pharr, Texas. Gov. Abbott has pledged to build a state-funded border wall between Texas and Mexico as a surge of mostly Central American immigrants crossing into the United States has challenged U.S. immigration agencies. So far in 2021, U.S. Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 900,000 immigrants crossing into the United States on the southern border. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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