Thread by @njhochman

This is arguably the single most important aspect of Trump's funding freeze.

The immigration crisis isn't an accident. It's a well-oiled system, facilitated by powerful NGOs—and funded by your tax dollars.

By defunding the NGOs, Trump is crippling the entire system. 🧵

Here's what just happened: Last week, President Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions into the U.S.

Then, the State Department went a step further—they issued a "stop-work" order to their NGO "partners," suspending all funding for refugee resettlement.

The NGOs were beside themselves. And for good reason—very few of these groups are self-sufficient. Most of them are sustained by the federal tax-dollar gravy train. The immigration crisis is being financed by your government—with your money.

Hence, their outraged statements:

To be clear, these NGOs exist to subvert U.S. immigration law at every step of the process—actively transporting migrants into the country, fighting enforcement efforts at the border, resettling migrants in American towns and cities, and lobbying for open border policies in D.C.

And again, they've been doing it on your dime. For the past four years, The Biden State Department has been mainlining taxpayer funds to groups that run an end-to-end mass migration network, beginning deep in South America and finishing with resettlement in American communities.

They provide "humanitarian transportation" to ferry immigrants up to our border, waypoints with shelter and medical services along the way, Spanish-language maps showing the best route to the U.S., and legal services for immigrants to beat our immigration laws once they get here.

Oh, and money. They just give them cash cards, vouchers, and often even just stacks of cash in envelopes.

Tough to think of a more direct 1:1 redistribution: You pay your taxes. Your government sends that money to the NGOs. The NGOs hand it to immigrants. You work, they benefit.

Ten of these major immigration NGOs—known as VOLAGS ("Voluntary Agencies")—have contracts with the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), which provides them with the funding to resettle migrants in the U.S.

These are the ten VOLAGS in question:

Most of these groups are only able to operate because of the federal government.

Take the USCCB: In 2023, they received $129.6M in federal grants for migration services. They spent $130.5M on migration services.

Their immigration activities are almost 100% taxpayer-funded.

Or take the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (Which, unlike the USCCB as an overall organization, is exclusively focused on immigration).

In FY 2023, 96.65% of their revenue came from federal grants and contracts, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Or take the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society—a group that we made an entire video about last year. (See below).

Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas served on their board until taking a job in the Biden admin. Surprise, surprise—after he took office, their funding skyrocketed.

If you're looking for the villain at the center of the immigration crisis, it's these guys. The refugee NGOs are a fifth column in American politics. And they've essentially been acting as an extension of the federal government.

But not anymore. This is a big, big win.

You can check out my deep-dive thread on mass deportations from earlier this month here:

And yesterday’s thread on how the “online right” won:

Sorry pal—this kind of shameless gaslighting lost at the ballot box!

The reason these immigration lobbyists are making such cynical arguments right now is that they know they’re losing—badly.

Almost every VOLAG is actively involved in the border crisis, as I explicitly outlined in the thread. You can learn this with 5 minutes of googling.

Also, bizarre to say “it’s legal!” when I never said this was just about “illegal” immigration. It very much includes the gigantic swathe of migrants that have been brought in “legally” by powerful NGOs committed to subverting and twisting our immigration laws beyond recognition.

We’ll be discussing this tonight at 8:30 ET. Come listen:
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