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Stonewalling from the Biden-Harris administration left a conservative group resorting to a lawsuit in search of answers about taxpayer money funding the resettling of illegal aliens.

After nearly four years of open border policies, close scrutiny of the federal government’s actions increasingly showed management and facilitation superseding deterrence and national sovereignty.

As an estimated 500,000 unaccompanied children have entered the United States since 2021, an unanswered Freedom of Information Act request led the Center to Advance Security in America to file a lawsuit to uncover how American tax dollars were being handed out.

Specifically, as reported by Fox News, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement had failed to respond to a FOIA request on documents “showing the total list of non-governmental organizations that received federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services — Office of Refugee Resettlement for years FY 2023, and FY 2024 to assist with housing, educational, medical, legal or other services made available to migrants apprehended at the Southern border.”

The lawsuit asserted public interest “because it will help the public understand whether HHS is using taxpayer dollars consistent with the law and whether appropriate oversight of federal funds provided to non-governmental organizations is in place.”

HHS’ support role to the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibilities in border security typically involved their resettling of unaccompanied children, more accurately defined as minors, “not attained 18 years of age,” without a legal guardian in the United States.

CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said in a statement, “The southern border is out of control, and American communities are being forced to deal with thousands of unvetted migrants pouring over the border each day.”

“The American people are entitled to know specifically how much money taxpayers are spending on non-profit organizations providing social services to illegal migrants. CASA’s FOIA requested this information, and now this lawsuit will force the Office of Refugee Resettlement to provide it for FY 23 and 244 just as they have provided it before,” he went on.

CASA’s lawsuit came as it had been reported that DHS’s Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman had used funds toward billboards promoting free legal assistance to illegal aliens.

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs (R) and Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford (R) had since sent letters to DHS & OIDO requesting details on the spending on the channels taken to facilitate them, as shared by Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin.

The concern also comes as it was reported that so-called “Dreamers,” illegal aliens protected from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, were now eligible to enroll in Obamacare to receive health insurance on the taxpayer’s dime.

Fox News noted that in response to GOP claims about a lack of vetting at the border, a White House spokesperson had previously said, “The administration has taken action to protect unaccompanied children through exacting sponsor vetting for those caring for unaccompanied children and post-release services for all children in sponsor care.”

“HHS is also implementing the strongest rule to protect unaccompanied children ever through the Foundational Rule on Unaccompanied Children, which further implements detailed policies and procedures providing for the safe and timely release of unaccompanied children to vetted and approved sponsors, requiring background and criminal records checks for all sponsors and adults residing in the potential sponsor’s household, strengthened post-release services to ensure child well-being and immigration compliance and enhanced standards for private care facilities that house unaccompanied children,” continued the statement. “It is outrageous that Republican members of Congress are trying to end these protections for children through use of the Congressional Review Act to repeal this critical rule.”

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