Congress Needs to Stop Funding DHS’s Anti-Enforcement Boondoggles
August 13, 2024
FAIR
During August, while Members of Congress are in their home districts holding townhall meetings and hearing from constituents, legislative staff are in the nation’s capital planning a strategy for funding the government for the next fiscal year (FY) starting October 1. A key part of those discussions involves how to secure the border. But lawmakers must also decide whether taxpayer funding should be prioritized on detention or releasing illegal aliens into the interior of the country with a range of social services.
Specifically, Congress will have to determine how to proceed with funding a relatively new immigration program known as the Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP) – a program that goes against the core mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). CMPP provides taxpayer-funded services to illegal aliens in removal proceedings, awarding funds to nonprofit organizations to provide “mental health services; trafficking screening; legal orientation programs; cultural orientation programs; connections to social services; and departure planning and reintegration services for individuals returning to their home countries.”
Illegal Alien Allocations of $55 million from House Committee on the Judiciary
First funded in the FY 2021 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CMPP was initially provided $5 million, and that amount increased to $15 million in FY22, $20 million in FY23, and $15 million in FY24 – for a grand total of $55 million.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/08/13/congress-needs-stop-funding-dhss-anti-enforcement-boondoggles
