President Biden has kept his promise to reverse his predecessor’s immigration policies with a hurricane of executive orders, but doing so has required more than signing documents he doesn’t understand.
As President Trump spent tens of millions of tax dollars to keep illegal aliens out of the country, Biden is spending tens of millions to let them in.
Two news reports suggest that figure has already surpassed $100 million. Biden is housing illegals in hotels because “detention facilities” are packed to the rafters, and he will fly them all over the country. And he’s spending millions more to stop building the border wall President Trump started.
1,200 Illegals in Hotels
A nonprofit in Texas has received $86 million to put illegals up in hotel rooms, Axios reported on Saturday.
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The big bucks come from a six-month contract with an outfit called Endeavors “to provide critical services” to the illegals, a spokesman told the Washington Examiner. The tax money will pay for 1,200 illegals to stay in hotels:
The contracts come after border officials warned that an unprecedented number of children, 117,000, will arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021. Eighty thousand unaccompanied minors arrived during the 2019 crisis on the southwestern border.
Endeavors has been awarded $178,100,000 from the federal government since 2011, with this most recent contract to house migrants making up their largest contract to date.
More than 14,000 migrant children were in the custody of either Customs and Border Protection or the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement.
In January, the Biden administration changed the policy of its predecessor by stopping the return of unaccompanied minors to Mexico, which was instituted as the COVID-19 pandemic began. Customs and Border Protection and Health and Human Services have opened several facilities in Texas to house the minors, including one that critics said was holding “kids in cages” during the Trump administration.
Even worse, Biden plans to continue waging germ warfare on Americans by permitting the illegals to stay. As The New American reported in early March, Biden has been releasing COVID-infected migrants to hop buses and head for who knows where. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that his agency released migrants without testing.
But now, apparently, Biden thinks buses aren’t good enough for the illegal migrants. Instead, he’ll fly them where they need to go, the Examiner reported:
The administration will also allow border officials to fly migrant families and children to facilities along the northern border. Republican Rep. Lisa McClain said the plan was “deeply troubling,” raising concerns about the spread of COVID-19.
“We already know these illegal aliens are not being tested for the coronavirus before being released into Texas communities. We cannot let this happen in Michigan,” McClain said.
The Examiner did not report how much that would cost.
Stopping Wall Costs Millions
Meanwhile, a former border agent reported that stopping construction on the border wall is costing taxpayers a fortune.
Writing for Bretibart and citing a government source, former border lawman Randy Clark wrote that idling construction sites cost $6 million daily.
The pause will end on March 21, he wrote:
According to the source, the expenditures are required for materials orders placed before the pause and expenses for the cost of equipment sitting idle. When the issuance of a stop work order causes a contractor to idle equipment, they are entitled to be compensated for rental expenses or costs of ownership.
Shortly after taking office, President Biden signed an executive order temporarily halting any further progress on the border wall so individual contracts could be evaluated. With the exception of “make-safe” activities at the worksites, construction projects immediately came to a standstill, Breitbart Texas reported.
Yet ending the pause does not mean starting construction again, he wrote, because “the Biden administration has not indicated which direction they will take regarding the end of the pause.” Be that as it may, the bills are piling up; taxpayers will write the checks:
As the deadline looms for a decision to be reached, equipment still sits idle. In Eagle Pass, Texas, a $51.9-million fence contract hangs in the balance. The equipment gathers dust and the contractor still awaits a decision. Other problems appearing along the border may be taking precedent over the status of the border wall contracts.…
In addition to the daily expenses related to the pause of border wall construction, additional costs to taxpayers are likely on the horizon if the administration does decide to close out the contracts permanently.
