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A spending bill from House Republicans includes billions for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), which facilitates mass migration.
This continues large-scale funding for IOM despite criticism that provisions claiming to restrict promotion of migrant caravans are unenforceable.
“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to encourage, mobilize, publicize, or manage mass-migration caravans towards the United States southwest border,” the provision states.
The bill adds, “not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall report to the appropriate congressional committees with analysis on the organization and funding of mass-migration caravans in the Western Hemisphere.”
Significantly, IOM recently hired a former Democratic Congressional staffer to lobby lawmakers for “consistent core funding” of the agency.
IOM and the UN Refugee Agency play a key role in providing assistance to migrants along travel routes to the US border, having received over $1.4 billion from the US in the last year alone.
While IOM officials have backed President Biden’s expansive migration agenda, taxpayer funding of the organization effectively aids the high border crossing levels predicted under Biden, with nearly 8 million encounters to date just as Republicans are set to approve more IOM monies.
“The IOM, the United Nations Agency for Migration, has repeatedly and publicly criticized the MPP [“Remain in Mexico” program], which it considers inhumane and against international law,” IOM officials wrote in 2021.
