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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) denied that the federal government provides help or financial assistance to illegal immigrants, prompting a torrent of fact-checkers to come along and state that they are lying.
“NOTICE: Claims that migrants will be provided free travel and transportation to their destination are false,” the CBP’s official Twitter feed posted Thursday. “The U.S. government does not provide help or financial support for noncitizens.”
It is the second time they have made such a claim, posting a duplicate tweet roughly one month ago.
It is unclear what “claims” they are referencing or if the group was simply trying to get out in front of a situation in which illegal aliens coming in are expecting travel and transportation to new locations to be provided.
Regardless, several sources were quick to jump all over the CBP’s claims calling them alternately misleading, false, or a flat-out lie.
The Heritage Foundation think tank came along and, not pleased with the length of time Twitter’s Community Notes was taking to correct the CBP statement, provided their own fact check.
“Since @CommunityNotes hasn’t shown up yet, we’ll say it. This is a lie,” they wrote. “The U.S. Government pays NGO’s to do the work for them.”
The Heritage Foundation provided a link to their research showing the federal government uses charities “to hide the true cost of the border crisis.”
The report calls the funding of NGO’s through taxpayer funds Biden’s “dirty little secret” and describes them as “charities or religiously affiliated nonprofits but who spend most of their money and time helping illegal immigrants settle in the United States.”
That’s right. Your money helping to resettle illegal aliens into America so they can take even more of your money through social services or by taking jobs from Americans or legal immigrants.
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Twitter’s Community Notes did catch up to the situation and slapped the CBP’s tweet with a little fact-check of their own.
“This statement by CBP is misleading as the federal government funds non-government organizations such as Catholic charities to assist in the travel, food, and shelter for illegal aliens and is coordinated by FEMA,” the label reads.
They provide a link to FEMA’s website promoting over $332 million in grants to provide “food, shelter, and services to individuals and families … who entered through the Southwestern Border and who are now awaiting their immigration court proceedings.”
Oh, good. So they’re only providing help and financial assistance until their court dates. Well, at least that shouldn’t take long, right?
Except, as The Political Insider reported earlier this month, documentation provided to illegal immigrants at the border had some being provided with court dates set as late as 2032 and 2035 in Chicago and Florida.
Potentially twelve years of financial assistance and the CBP wants you to believe that nah, we don’t provide financial support for illegal immigrants.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin also called the CBP out over their statement.
“This is blatantly false,” he tweeted.
“The U.S. government indirectly provides financial support for migrants by giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to NGOs via FEMA’s Emergency Food & Shelter Program,” Melugin continued. “The NGOs then assist migrants w/ transportation around U.S & other services.”
Melugin just weeks ago posted a video showing a female National Guard soldier opening a gate and allowing a large crowd of illegal immigrants across the border onto private property in Texas.
The soldier did so, Melugin reported, because she “was following CBP directives to open the gate because the migrants had already crossed onto US soil and needed to be processed.”
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This is a bunch of garbage. NGO's should not be providing them housing period because those very same NGO'S are in charge of placing low income american citizens in low income housing so in reality half the housing that should be going to united states citizens is getting syphoned off and given to illegal immigrants. I say it was good enough for the democrats when clinton did it all over africa it is time to build tent city refugee camps and tell theme you live here until your assylem is decided and you go thru the immigration process. Save the housing for the millions of homeless united states citizens.
How can government provide funding to religious organizations when part goes to religious indoctrination?
The Democrats in power insults our intelligence with their LIES, DECEPTIONS AND DENIALS. THEY ARE REALLY Satan's AGENTS NOW. ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS TO BOOST THEIR VOTER ROLL, so they can stay in power forever, while depriving our poor citizens with the help they need. Anything to buy votes, Demoncrats will do at our expense. Trash them all in every election to regain our rights and help our own homeless poor.
Once again our government is caught blatantly lying to us. It isn't even trying to hide it very much. So easy to catch them. Yet nothing happens. Nothing. Do we just accept it and give up trying?
THE BORDER PATROL HAS BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A BUNCH OF SORRY BIDEN BUTT KISSERS .IF THEY HAD OPENED A GATE AND LET THEM ONTO MY PRIVATE PROPERTY THER WOULD HAVE BEEN HELL TO PAY. WE ARE BEING INVADED, LOCK AND LOAD.
If the government breaks the law by allowing illegal immigration, why should we obey the law ?
Ok for thee, but not for me?
Revolt.