Exclusive: GOP Lawmakers Demand Details About U.S. Funding Of Migrant Shelters In Mexico
BY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
FEBRUARY 24, 2022U.S. tax dollars are funding migrant shelters inside Mexico, but the Biden administration won’t release any details.The Biden administration is sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to northern Mexico as part of the reinstated Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, a Trump-era program requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated.
The problem is, the administration won’t say how much, or what these funds are being spent on, or who is receiving them. Republican lawmakers have been asking the State Department for answers to these questions since December, but so far heard nothing in response. On Tuesday night, a dozen Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken demanding more information.
The background here is that President Biden terminated the MPP program, commonly known as Remain in Mexico, soon after taking office, but a federal judge ruled last August that the administration had acted in violation of federal law and ordered it to restart the program. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case but did not block the lower court’s ruling that the program be reinstated.
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https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/24/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-demand-details-about-u-s-funding-of-migrant-shelters-in-mexico/
