Donald Trump wants to hit the ground running when returns to the White House.
He has got a major problem at the top of his to-do list.
And a Florida man handed Donald Trump one plan that is bad news for open borders.
Bill introduced to stop the flow of federal money to aid illegal immigration
Illegal immigration has become a big business with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to fuel migration to southern borders.
NGOs help migrants on the journey through Central America to Mexico and eventually to the Southern Border.
Once an illegal alien crosses into the United States, they receive help from NGOs to get government assistance, resettlement, and other services.
The Biden-Harris administration has funneled tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to NGOs that help illegal aliens and encourage them to enter the country.
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) wants to bring this abuse of taxpayer money to an end.
NGOs are most often exempt from paying taxes because they are nonprofits.
Gaetz wants to strip them of their non-profit status under the tax code.
That is why he introduced the Helping Americans by Restricting Resources to Immigrant Services Act or the HARRIS Act.
The HARRIS Act would eliminate the tax-exempt status for NGOs and other organizations that could be fueling the border crisis if they send a “substantial” part of their budget to help illegal aliens.
“NGOs and non-profits that enable the Biden-Harris administration’s mass-migration policies — by focusing primarily on providing assistance to those who have broken federal immigration law — should not be receiving tax breaks,” Gaetz said. “If non-profits want special treatment under our tax-code, they should focus on doing genuine charity for genuine Americans, not illegal aliens.”
NGOs have become a big business in the illegal immigration industry
There are dozens of NGOs that the Biden-Harris administration is sending taxpayer money to that help illegal aliens.
Catholic Charities USA received $1.4 billion in taxpayer money to assist illegal aliens.
Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services gave $182.6 million in taxpayer money to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in fiscal year 2022.
Taxpayer funding made up more than 80% of the group’s budget.
Former Obama Home Security official Charles Marino told NewsNation that there were so many NGOs at the southern border that no one could keep track of them.
“The problem here is that the NGOs have taken over as the official travel agency of the Department of Homeland Security,” Marino said. “So now they’ve turned it over to the NGOs, not just to coordinate the shelter and the food, but also the travel, ultimately, we’re going to see billions of dollars of taxpayer money go to waste through fraud and abuse because there’s no oversight through FEMA.”
Marino said that NGOs were shipping illegal aliens all over the country.
“Let’s face it, they [NGOs] are going to help whoever they encounter. And that includes those that are gotaways, where there are no records of them with CBP at all. But they’re going to put them on planes, they’re going to send them around the country, they’re going to send them primarily to sanctuary cities, because of the protections that sanctuary cities offer to migrants,” Marino added.
Shutting down the NGOs aiding and abetting illegal immigration will need to be a top priority for Donald Trump.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
