When is Enough Really Enough
Segment # 107
Enough is Enough
You won’t read this in the New York Times, but I think you might agree that it is “all the news that fit to print”. By their own admission, the United Nations and NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) are supporting migration from Central America through Mexico, across our southern border into locations all over the United States. Although you never voted for this, it has become a priority for you, the taxpayer. Migration is purposeful from the beginning, middle, and to the end of sham, as unvetted illegals pour into our country. City services are being shut down, crime is increasing, people are dying of fentanyl, and this is what the beginning of a disaster looks like.
YOU are paying for them to lower your standard of living and take away the rights guaranteed you
by the Constitution and the Bil of Rights.
The United States pays approximately 22% of the United Nations' regular budget and 25% of the peacekeeping budget, although there is a cap of 25% set by the U.S. Congress for peacekeeping contributions. In 2022, the U.S. paid $3.1 billion in assessed contributions to the UN, which accounted for about 23.7% of all assessed contributions paid by governments
Biden Sets Record on U.S. Taxpayer Funding for an Unappreciative U.N. | The Heritage Foundation
Since the founding of the United Nations nearly eight decades ago, the United States has been the largest financier of the organization. When it comes to U.N. funding, America stands far above China. By any objective measure, the U.S. is doing its share and more. The reality is that other governments and the U.N. have come to view American taxpayer dollars as an entitlement… and too often the Biden administration agrees.
As the world’s most prosperous nation, the U.S. is the largest contributor to the UN. The U.S. pays 22% of the regular budget and is assessed at 27% of the peacekeeping budget.
In 1993, however, U.S. Congress placed a 25% cap on American contributions to peacekeeping. That means that although the U.S. is billed at 27%, we pay just 25%. That difference has been building for years, yielding more than $1 billion in total arrears owed to the UN.
The Scales of Assessment: Understanding the UN Budget - Better World Campaign
Additionally, in 2022, the U.S. provided nearly $15 billion in voluntary contributions to the UN, representing over 38% of all voluntary contributions provided by governments
NGOs (Non Government Organizations)
NGOs working on the southern border receive significant funding from the U.S. government to support migrants. For example, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service reported over $93.1 million in U.S. government grants in 2021. Catholic Charities USA received $1.4 billion in government support compared to $1 billion in private donations
NGOs use American tax dollars to relocate migrants
Nongovernmental organizations use tax payer funds to help migrants (newsnationnow.com)
Nongovernmental organizations relocate migrants using taxpayer dollars……..DHS: NGOs are under scrutiny over misspent funds, no record-keeping………..Expert: "Problem is, NGOs have taken over as official travel agency of DHS"
Biden Admin. Sends Millions to Religious Nonprofits Facilitating Mass Illegal Migration (cis.org)
Biden Admin. Sends Millions to Religious Nonprofits Facilitating Mass Illegal Migration A CIS examination of one subset of 200-plus NGOs helping a mammoth UN-led immigration assistance project reveals pass-through taxpayer funding of the worst mass migration in U.S. history
By Todd Bensman on January 30, 2024
The Biden administration has allocated millions to religious nonprofits facilitating mass illegal migration, with some organizations receiving millions of dollars to aid immigrants in Latin America
The UN plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars as cash and services to migrants heading towards the U.S., with a significant portion allocated for those planning to cross the U.S. border
These NGOs play a crucial role in providing shelter, social services, and facilitating the movement of migrants, but concerns have been raised about the lack of oversight and potential misuse of funds
Behind the Chaos at US–Mexico Border
Panama’s former SENAFRONT director says the U.N. and its nonprofit partners made mass migration worse when they moved into his country.
|February 22, 2024………. By Darlene McCormick Sanchez
PANAMA CITY—The former director of Panama’s border patrol told The Epoch Times that the United Nations’ migration agenda is behind the chaos at the U.S. southern border and that U.N. partners are making things worse instead of better.
Oriel Ortega, now a security and defense consultant to Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo, said during a Feb. 22 interview that he saw a jump in migration in 2016, at the same time that more nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) moved into Panama. That increase corresponded with the U.N.’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration meeting in 2016. Two years later, 152 nations—including Panama—voted in favor of the compact to manage global migration. The United States voted against it.
But under the U.N., the migration process has been anything but orderly, Mr. Ortega said. “It’s completely opposite right now,” he said through an interpreter. Documents show that in 2023, a record 500,000 migrants traveled through the dense jungle known as the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. Migrants from around the world are flying into South and Central America to start their journey because countries such as Suriname and Ecuador don’t require a visa to enter. Their final destination is the United States.
The book “Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy,” written by Kelly Greenhill, suggests that weaker countries are using migration to destabilize their more powerful adversaries.
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Joseph Humire is the executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and an expert on unconventional warfare. He told The Epoch Times that he believes that’s what Americans are seeing at the U.S. southern border now.
“This isn’t a conspiracy theory,” he said; the “invasion” at the U.S. southern border is “strategic engineered migration.” Mr. Ortega agreed that the NGOs have “exacerbated” mass migration problems.
“Instead of helping, they’re being part of the problem,” he said. “It’s not the migrants themselves that are creating a national threat; it is the organized crime, and it is these international organizations.”
At the Lajas Blancas camp in Panama, migrants have access to a number of large maps provided by NGOs that display detailed migration routes heading to the United States. One map is from HIAS, an NGO founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which recently received $11 million from the United States in two grants awarded for Latin American migrants.
The HIAS map shows the migration route from Colombia to Costa Rica, including detailed bus stops, temperatures, altitudes, and “migration kiosk” locations.
The Epoch Times visited all four migrant camps in the Darien Gap this week, speaking with migrants from China, Somalia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and others who hiked out of the treacherous jungle leading from Colombia into Panama.
Many suffered from infections and injuries such as trench foot and broken limbs. Several complained that the water was untreated at the camps and that they lacked basic items such as diapers.
Migrants also told The Epoch Times that the NGO staff, several of which are funded by U.S. taxpayer money, only visited the camps for several hours each day. “I do not know where the funds are going,” Mr. Ortega said of the NGOs when told about complaints from migrants. “The funds are supposed to be there to help the migrants.”
The only NGO workers spotted during the weekend of Feb. 17–18 were with the Red Cross, which was building a temporary structure for their workers, and Doctors Without Borders, whose medics were speaking with migrants. The NGOs should be educating and helping migrants in their own countries, not Panama, Mr. Ortega said.
Former SENAFRONT Panama director Oriel Ortega speaks to The Epoch Times in Panama City, Panama, on Feb. 22. Instead of curtailing mass migration, they are facilitating it, he said.
International organizations even filed lawsuits against Panama, alleging human rights violations for holding 2,500 migrants from Haiti. But Mr. Ortega said the migrants were only being held “because of unsafe conditions,” but he didn’t elaborate. While the U.N. has aided migrants for decades, the scope of its operation has dramatically expanded, with the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States surging. Nearly $1.3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money was given to the U.N. and other agencies assisting migrants in 2023, according to a government spending database.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the U.N.’s migration arm, is paying for the expansion of camps, including ones near the Darien Gap, one in Lajas Blancas, and another new facility near camp Bajo Chiquito, Mr. Ortega said. It’s up to the NGOs to sustain their operations, he said. SENAFRONT, the border patrol for Panama, which he once headed, should only be there for security, he said.
A migrant sits under a detailed migration map provided by an NGO, at a migrant camp in the Darien Gap, Panama. (Darlene McCormick Sanchez/The Epoch Times.)
Mr. Ortega said he pushed for the NGOs to be responsible for “their own problem that was caused by the global migration.” “SENAFRONT should not be the one that does all the processing, attending [to] them and taking care of them,” he said.
Panama has tried, to no avail, to get governments in South America to provide personal information on migrants who are moving across different countries, he said. “We don’t have collaboration because the Global Compact does not work,” Mr. Ortega said.
The migrants are fleeing because of issues within their countries, such as unstable governments or cartel activity, he said. “There’s a triangle of things that are happening in the central parts of the continent that pushes people out of their countries so they can migrate to the United States,” he said.
He noted that mass migration has already caused problems in many countries, including the United States. “As we have seen in New York, bad people are arriving in New York,” he said. “And they are causing a lot of damage and a lot of disturbances to the government of the United States of America.” IOM and HIAS didn’t respond to requests for an interview.
What is the anticipated budget cost for debit cards and phones for migrants crossing our border
The anticipated budget cost for debit cards and phones for migrants crossing the border varies based on different programs. In New York City, a pilot program allocates $53 million to provide prepaid debit cards to migrant families for food and baby supplies, with an average of $12.52 per person per day for 28 days
… The program aims to save $600,000 per month and $7.2 million annually 1
… Each family could receive up to nearly $1,000 per month, equivalent to $35 per day for food, with cards refilled every 28 days 2
… On a broader scale, the UN plans to distribute $372 million in cash assistance to around 624,000 immigrants in-transit to the United States during 2024, often through prepaid debit cards among other methods 3
… This is part of a larger vision to spend $1.59 billion assisting migrants in the Western Hemisphere
… In the US Senate's bipartisan bill on border security and aid, $118 billion is allocated for various purposes including border security, support for Ukraine and Israel, and humanitarian assistance for civilians in conflict zones like Ukraine and Gaza 4
… This bill also includes provisions related to immigration policy changes.Therefore, the budget cost for debit cards and phones for migrants crossing the border can vary significantly depending on the specific program or initiative being implemented.
Testifying at the State Capitol in Albany, the mayor told lawmakers that the state would need to pony up at least half the cost of caring for migrants to keep the city from making drastic budget cuts, a figure his team put at $4.6 billion. “We're the economic engine of the state,” Mr. Adams said.Feb 6, 2024
Mayor Adams Says Migrant Influx Will Cost New York City $12 Billion As newcomers continue to arrive in the hundreds each week, the city increased its estimate for how much it will cost to house them and provide other services. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/nyregion/adams-nyc-migrants-cost.html
Migrants in New York City will receive prepaid debit cards, not credit cards, for designated goods
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