The director of this country's largest immigrant shelter worked himself into a peak of outrage recalling the largesse of a United Nations program that, unknown to most Americans, has been showering millions of dollars in cash to help foreign nationals on their way to cross the U.S. southern border.
In his irritation, Flores would find unlikely common cause with some of the few Americans who know about this UN cash giveaway program, which is widespread and provides tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of thousands of immigrants on their way to illegally cross the American southern border.
One group of 12 Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives, led by Texas Rep. Lance Gooden, last year proposed legislation calling for the United States to defund the United Nations for ironically, to them, using American tax money to inflict what they see as a catastrophe on Americans who pay those taxes.
The "Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan" for 2023-2024, coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the UN's International Organization for Migration, both of which receive substantial annual U.S. taxpayer contributions, calls for a quarter of the $1.72 billion it wants for 2023 - some $450 million - to go directly as cash or cash equivalents to "Migrants and refugees" on the move throughout Latin America.
Published in mid-December 2022, the new document warrants attention because it provides a rare, fairly detailed glimpse into the migration-support activities of the United Nations and the migrant advocacy organizations, which last year drew angry political criticism from some in the United States who have perceived that it was helping to facilitate a mass migration event that broke every border-crossing record in American history over a 24-month span.
Of the $450 million, $149.5 million would be given out in cash or debit card form to 631,000 "In-transit" immigrants moving mostly northward, about half of the 1.2 million the group estimates will be on the march this year.
302 million in vouchers would be granted to in-transit or potential immigrants in 17 Latin American countries and used to pay for lodging and a laundry list of other road-ameliorating programs, like $25 million for "Humanitarian transportation" along the migrant trails.
https://cis.org/Bensman/United-Nations-Hand-Out-Hundreds-Millions-Cash-USBound-Immigrants-2023
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