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After USAID, another shocking report came, revealing the data of the US department of health and human services' (HHS) migrants grant and throwing light on misuse.
According to the watchdog investigation, the grants for migrants significantly increased between 2020 and 2024, providing them financial support for vehicle purchases, housing, and business credit development. The report revealed that a total expenditure of $22.6 billion has been done from the money paid by tax payer, New York Post reported.
The HHS
Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR), previously criticised for losing contact with 32,000 migrant children, distributed substantial funds to various non-profit organisations. According to auditors from OpenTheBooks, who shared their findings with The Post, this created substantial incentives for asylum seekers at the US border.
ORR, responsible for refugee settlement in America, substantially expanded the number of non-citizens eligible for funding during President Joe Biden's administration. The fiscal year 2023 alone saw over $10 billion allocated to grant-receiving organisations.
School-age children are dropped off by a school bus at the Row Hotel on Eighth Avenue between 44th and 45th Streets in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
This coincided with unprecedented southern border crossings, as Customs and Border Protection recorded 2.4 million apprehensions during this period.
Non-profit organisations received up to $1.7 billion for various services, including matched savings schemes for vehicles, properties, education or enterprises; business loans up to $15,000; credit repair loans up to $1,500; cultural orientation; emergency accommodation; legal support and healthcare access.
Certain programmes had specific eligibility criteria, including residency duration, employment status, and income thresholds relative to federal poverty levels.
The largest allocation, $12.4 billion over five years, went towards unaccompanied migrant children. This occurred despite federal whistleblowers raising concerns about ORR placing many of the 291,000 children with unsuitable sponsors.
"The Shining City on a Hill, with its walls and doors, makes room for legal immigrants and legitimate refugees and asylum seekers, but the ORR has made a mockery of that vision in recent years," OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told The Post.
"ORR is part of a troubling trend of using nonprofit groups as ideological proxies. Vast sums are being outsourced to evade accountability and prop up an immoral, exploitive system that is hurtful to both American citizens and people in other countries who are longing for a better life."
President Joe Biden speaks at the 115th NAACP National Convention at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on July 16, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This report follows controversy surrounding FEMA's allocation of approximately $80 million for migrant accommodation in New York City hotels and related services, which the Trump administration recently recovered.
Fiscal disbursements included $2.6 billion in 2020, $2.3 billion in 2021, $3.3 billion in 2022, $10 billion in 2023, and $4.2 billion in 2024. These figures represent obligated spending, with some funds yet to be distributed.
The programme encompassed various groups including Cuban and Haitian migrants, humanitarian parolees from Afghanistan and Ukraine, special visa holders from Afghanistan and Iraq, and unaccompanied minors.
The watchdog highlighted this funding increase coincided with ORR expanding migrant legal support and removing requirements for refugees to achieve rapid economic self-sufficiency.
Church World Services and the International Rescue Committee were primary fund recipients. These organisations received significant funding despite the former opposing a Biden-Trudeau agreement addressing northern border asylum issues.
