A new report finds that the U.S. government doled out 1,272 awards to pay for programs costing $26.5 billion to encourage and welcome illegal migration.
\n\nThe site DataRepublican.com has gotten down into the financial weeds with a review of spending on migrant resettlement and Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) awards through January of 2025.
\n\nThe site also noted there are 217 contracts worth $5.2 billion that are still active.
\n\nThe active contracts include $3.4 billion to care for unaccompanied children who are already in the system. An additional $544 million is going to aid states with migrants who are already here and in the system, and $1.2 billion is being spent on other ORR grants that have already been granted.
\n\nOne other program costing five million dollars has been forced to remain active by a court order.
\n\nThe Trump administration has also canceled 63 awards, worth a total of $186 million.
\n\nIn September, the White House outlined nearly $1 billion in wasted tax dollars spent on migrants.
\n\nThe White House recently launched a new initiative to eliminate wasteful and harmful spending and pledged to “cut wasteful and harmful government spending that does not benefit American citizens.”
\n\n“Last year, President Trump…
Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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