Border Czar Kamala Harris is working with the UN to import millions of illegal aliens, funded by American tax dollars
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In less than four years, President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris
have released into the United States nearly 5.8 million illegal aliens. At least 1.9 million
additional illegal aliens entered the country as “gotaways” by evading apprehension entirely.
With the Biden-Harris Administration allowing nearly eight million illegal aliens to enter the
United States since January 2021, the American people have watched as the Administration
erased any semblance of border security and made a mockery of immigration enforcement. As
Americans rightly objected to the Administration’s open-borders policies, the images of mass
illegal immigration and chaos at the southwest border became a political liability for President
Biden and Vice President Harris. But rather than fix the actual problem of illegal immigration,
the Biden-Harris Administration engaged in misdirection—teaming up with open-borders
bureaucrats at the United Nations to allow aliens to bypass the southwest border altogether.
Under President Biden and Vice President Harris, in June 2023 the State Department
announced its Safe Mobility Initiative, which allows aliens to sidestep the southwest border and,
according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “avoid the risks
associated with onward movement.” In other words, this new Biden-Harris program fast-tracks
aliens into the United States out of sight of the American people and without the politically
damaging optics at the border. The initiative’s Safe Mobility Offices (SMOs) allow aliens
outside the United States to consult with foreign national employees from UNHCR and the
International Organization for Migration (IOM), who then provide the aliens with several options
to resettle in the United States, including through family reunification parole, labor pathways,
and additional expansions of the Biden-Harris Administration’s illegal abuses of humanitarian
parole. The U.S. taxpayer-funded SMOs are located in 13 cities across Guatemala, Costa Rica,
Colombia, and Ecuador.
Since 2023, the Committee on the Judiciary and its Subcommittee on Immigration
Integrity, Security, and Enforcement have conducted rigorous oversight of the Biden-Harris
border crisis, including the Administration’s abuses of immigration law. This oversight has
uncovered the Biden-Harris Administration’s open-borders alliance with United Nations
bureaucrats to ensure that additional aliens are fast-tracked into the United States on the U.S.
taxpayers’ dime. For example:
• Under the Biden-Harris Administration, more than 18,000 aliens from Central and South
America have departed for resettlement in the United States through the Safe Mobility
Initiative, with nearly 67,000 total aliens referred to the U.S. Refugee Admissions
Program for potential resettlement in the U.S.7 and at least 7,000 aliens identified by
IOM as potentially eligible to enter the U.S. through other means.
• For aliens who are not eligible to resettle in the United States through the U.S. Refugee
Admissions Program because they could not establish that they are refugees, IOM
staffers at SMOs counsel the aliens on alternative avenues to enter the country. Only 14
percent of IOM employees devoted to the Safe Mobility Initiative are U.S. citizens,
however, meaning that the Biden-Harris Administration uses U.S. taxpayer dollars to pay
foreign national employees of the United Nations to counsel other foreign nationals on
the best ways to enter the United States.
• UNHCR has spent $67.1 million of U.S. taxpayer funding on SMOs,11 with IOM
devoting another $14.6 million of U.S. taxpayer funding to the initiative, totaling more
than $80 million between UNHCR and IOM.
This interim staff report highlights how the Biden-Harris Administration has directed
U.S. taxpayer money to the open-borders United Nations to allow foreign national bureaucrats to
expedite more alien arrivals into the United States. The Committee and the Subcommittee will
continue to conduct aggressive oversight of the Biden-Harris Administration’s open-borders
policies to inform legislative reforms to end President Biden and Vice President Harris’s open-
borders policies.
Tom |
