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Political Corruption The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 5/9/22 by WALTER784; 103529 views.
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From: WALTER784
May-26
Because useful information to help the make their own opinions has been stifled on big tech platforms.
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From: WALTER784
May-27
U.S. Spent $13 Billion Sponsoring Unaccompanied Minor Children At The Border Since 2012
Breaking news: Last year, the feds spent $2.7 billion – roughly $18,000 per unaccompanied child at the border. For context, the average cost of education in Texas K-12 schools was $9,800 per student.
ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI
2023/05/25
GRAPHIC: Federal funding sponsoring unaccompanied minors at the border spiked to an all-time high in 2022.
The chaos on America’s southern border has had unintended consequence – a human catastrophe hurting tens of thousands of unaccompanied, defenseless children.
Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure to provide for these children and ensure their safety is woefully incompetent.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a part of the Administration for Children and Families, provides social services for unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Earlier this year the office came under fire for reports children were being placed with abusive “sponsors” and made to work full time in grueling conditions, violating child labor laws. An Inspector General report released in 2023 additionally criticized the agency for not conducting background checks on employees and contractors charged with caring for children.
Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that the agency spent $2.7 billion to “sponsor” unaccompanied minors – a staggering $18,000 per child. Roughly 150,000 unaccompanied minors were encountered at the southern border in fiscal year 2022.
However, today, reports indicate that up to 85,000 “sponsored” children are missing – their locations and whereabouts are not known.
Background
Unaccompanied children are defined as those under 18 who have no lawful immigration status in the U.S. and who do not have a parent or legal guardian that can provide custody.
According to the agency’s Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program website, the office oversees making placement decisions for these minors, releasing them to “qualified sponsors and family members,” and providing the children with legal representation and advice, among many other responsibilities.
Big Spikes in Federal Funding
OpenTheBooks auditors found that between 2012-2022, the program has doled out $12.8 billion in grants, with a substantial increase in 2018 and again in 2022.
Grant spending in this area has increased by about a billion dollars in 2022 over 2021. This year the budget is $2.7 billion, up from $950 million in 2017.
Most spending on unaccompanied minors takes place in Texas ($7.8 billion) followed by New York ($1.4 billion) and Florida ($660 million).
The biggest grant recipients have collected over $3 billion from FY2012-2022: Southwest Key Programs ($3.7 billion) and Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) Health and Human Services ($3.1 billion). Three other organizations have split another $1.3 billion in funding: Comprehensive Health Services ($484 million), Cayuga Home For Children ($453 million) and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service ($395 million).
GRAPHIC: Crisis Profiteering? Top executive pay at the leading non-profits running the federal Unaccompanied Child Program.
85,000 Missing Children And Allegations Of Child Trafficking
Earlier this year ORR came under fire for reports from the New York Times that children were being placed with abusive “sponsors” and made to work full time in grueling conditions, violating child labor laws.
The report also noted that while the agency is supposed to check in with children one month after being placed with their sponsors, 85,000 children could not be contacted.
A Florida grand jury report also accused the agency of “facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children, and some of our fellow Florida residents are (in some cases unwittingly) funding and incentivizing it for primarily eco
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From: WALTER784
May-27
With all the monies BLM has received... they're going bankrupt? Perhaps they've gotten fat enough and now want to bow out!
2022 Tax Records Show Black Lives Matter in the Red — Heading Toward Insolvency
ELAINE MALLON
24 May 2023
Black Lives Matter (BLM) had an $8.5 million deficit, and its investment accounts lost nearly $10 million in value, according to 2022 tax records.
The non-profit has blown through 2 ⁄ 3 of $90 million raised since the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s (BLMGNF) most recent filing of Form 990 paints a grim picture of BLMGNF’s financial health, indicating a trajectory toward financial insolvency. In 2022, the charity logged a $961,000 loss on a security sale of $172,000.
In this June 2020 photo, a rioter raises their fist as a fire burns in the street after clashes with law enforcement near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct shortly after midnight. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
In this June 2020 photo, a rioter raises their fist as a fire burns in the street after clashes with law enforcement near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct shortly after midnight. (David Ryder/Getty Images)
Co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned from the organization in May 2021 due to allegations that she was spending foundation funds for her own personal use. Breitbart reported last year that Cullors hosted personal parties at a $6 million property in Los Angeles owned by the organization. She admitted the organization was ill prepared to handle the large wave of funds but denied any wrongdoing. Even after her resignation, a 2022 tax return revealed her friends and family were still reaping heavy financial benefits from the organization.
Patrisse Cullors attends the Frieze Project Artist Patrisse Cullors x Summit x Cultured Magazine Dinner at The West Hollywood EDITION on February 13, 2020 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for The West Hollywood EDITION)
Patrisse Cullors attends the Frieze Project Artist Patrisse Cullors x Summit x Cultured Magazine Dinner at The West Hollywood EDITION on February 13, 2020, in West Hollywood, California. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for The West Hollywood EDITION)
Cullors’ brother, Paul Cullors, collected a salary of $126,000 as head of security despite not having a background as a bodyguard. He was one of only two paid employees in the organization. Cullors and his two companies made $1.6 million dollars providing “professional security services” to Black Lives Matter.
Last September, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s board member Shalomyah Bowers was accused of siphoning $10 million from donors to pay his consulting firms. Last year, Black Lives Matter paid $1.7 million to his company Bowers Consulting. Black Lives Matter’s former sister organization Black Lives Matter Grassroots filed a lawsuit accusing Bowers for using the charity’s fund as his own “personal piggy bank.”
The lawsuit stated:
His actions have led [Black Lives Matter] into multiple investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and various state attorney generals. Instead of using the donations for its intended purposes, Mr. Bowers diverted these donations to his own coffers and intentionally took calculated steps to prevent those same resources from being used by BLM for on-the-ground movement work.
In February 2022, Black Lives Matter was forced to shut off its online funding streams due to transparency issues. In 2022, Black Lives Matter raised just $9.3 million — down by 88% from the previous year. The charity spent $10.5 million on contractors and $12 million on real estate properties in Canada and Los Angeles.
Last summer, Black Lives Matter brought on a new board of directors led by Cecily Gay. Since 2006, she has reportedly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy three times, according to the New York Post.
2022 Tax Records Show Black Lives Matter in the Red (breitbart.com)
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From: Showtalk
May-27
Many of those children are being abused by a system that claims to care about them. Their lives will be ruined.
Host
From: Showtalk
May-27
They may have flared up and burned themselves out. Unlimited spending will do that and now that they aren’t the in thing, they can’t raise enough money to support spending.
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From: WALTER784
May-27
Showtalk said...
Many of those children are being abused by a system that claims to care about them. Their lives will be ruined.
Sadly, that' exactly what's happening.
Our current government used our taxpayer dollars to sell out these kids to the cartels and others who have less than favorable desires for those kids. I would assume that a good majority... if not all of them... have ended up in the sex trade business.
And they're spending more on these illegals that it would cost an American to go through K1~K12! Illegals first, Americans last!
And yes, they will be marred for life.
However, it does make one wonder whether in the future, they will eventually vote Democrat (for the one who sold them into slavery) or Republican?
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From: WALTER784
May-27
Burned our... or just the ones at the top taking the money and running away?
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From: Showtalk
May-27
Many are working in sweat shops and factories, hidden from view. There is no hope for them unless authorities find out where they are.
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