The Biden transition team official who brokered an $87 million immigration contract for a nonprofit organization that he was simultaneously advising was never cleared by federal authorities to work on the deal and has since been banned from any future work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to agency documents.
A high-ranking ICE official in Washington, D.C., on June 2 sent his colleagues a message obtained by the Washington Examiner that stated Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, the senior director for migrant services and federal affairs at the nonprofit Family Endeavors, was denied the proper clearance to work on the contract he had secured for his organization months earlier.
BIDEN DRAWS IRE OF FELLOW DEMOCRATS FOR OPTING NOT TO REOPEN CANADIAN BORDER. Lorenzen-Strait was first identified as the broker in the $87 million ICE contract by Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Georgia Republican, as well as two other people with knowledge of the situation.
He has weaved in and out of government for more than a decade, working at ICE from 2008 to May 2019, where his last responsibility included overseeing all family detention centers, which ICE has chosen not to use since President Joe Biden took office in January, even as it continues to pay to operate the extensive facilities nationwide.
Another ICE official, Claire Trickler-McNulty, worked directly under Lorenzen-Strait at the time that he left ICE in 2019.
ICE signed an $87 million deal for Lorenzen-Strait's organization to oversee an operation involving 1,200 hotel beds to house migrant families for three days at a time in Arizona and Texas.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Former Biden official who won $87M to house migrants banned from ICE contracts
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