The situation on the southern border has become a multi-layered crisis, and it has turned out to be very costly as well.
The Biden administration has spent $20 billion of hard-earned US tax money on “refugee” resettlement in the last two years alone. Of course, the vast majority of illegal border crossers are not refugees at all.
Democrats sure enjoy spending other people's money.
Daily Caller reports:
The Biden administration has spent $20 billion on refugee resettlement in just two years
The Biden administration has pumped billions of taxpayer dollars into the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement since October 2022, according to a new report from Open the Books.
The Biden administration spent $8.925 billion in fiscal year 2022 and $10.928 billion in fiscal year 2023 on the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at ORR to accommodate and transport migrants and provide them with various other services such as medical care and loans, according to the report released Tuesday. In recent months, the Department of Health and Human Services has faced scrutiny over the Office of Resettlement's alleged mishandling of cases of unaccompanied migrant children, some of whom have been released to poorly vetted sponsors where they are used in child labor, according to The New York Times.
Illegal immigration at the southern border has reached record levels under the Biden administration, with federal authorities recording more than 2.2 million encounters with migrants crossing illegally in fiscal year 2022 and more than 2 million in fiscal year 2023, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP). ) statistics.
The agency lost contact with 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children, according to the New York Times. Meanwhile, the Biden administration spent more than $5.5 billion separately in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 on unaccompanied migrant children, according to an Open the Books report.
That $20 billion could have been enough to build a lot of border wall, veteran housing, or pay for any number of other things.
Instead, Biden wasted his money destroying the country.
