Non-profits making billions from Biden’s open border, and you’re paying for it

I found a very interesting article about how non-profits are making big money off of Biden’s open border. Biden’s bringing in millions of unskilled illegal trespassers. Some of them are dangerous. But that isn’t stopping non-profits from cashing in. How much money are we talking about? Where is it coming from?  Let’s take a look at this article from The Free Press and find out.

It says:

The Free Press examined three of the most prominent NGOs that have benefited: Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc. These organizations have seen their combined revenue grow from $597 million in 2019 to an astonishing $2 billion by 2022, the last year for which federal disclosure documents are available. And the CEOs of all three nonprofits reap more than $500,000 each in annual compensation, with one of them—the chief executive of Southwest Key—making more than $1 million.

Where is the money coming from? You’re paying them this money through your taxes:

The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, funds the nonprofits through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, and its budget has swelled over the years—from $1.8 billion in 2018 to $6.3 billion in 2023. The ORR is expected to spend at least $7.3 billion this year—almost all of which will be funneled to NGOs and other contractors.

And it’s not just you. Biden’s socialist regime is spending more and more money, so much that they have to borrow in order to spend. And who is going to pay for all this borrowing? Well, young adults and children, some of who aren’t even born yet. They’re going to be paying for Biden’s “generosity”. And the harder you work to teach your children how to earn money, the more they’re going to pay in taxes.

Well, maybe these non-profits NEED all that money, because the need for their services is so great.

Nope:

But while it’s true the number of migrants has exploded in recent years, critics say these enormous federal grants far exceed the current need. The facilities themselves are generally owned by private companies and are leased to the NGOs, which house the unaccompanied minors and attempt to unite them with family members or, if that’s not possible, people who will take care of them—their so-called sponsors. The ORR does not publicly list the specific number of shelters it funds in its efforts to house migrants, a business The New York Times once described as “lucrative” and “secretive.”

Well, stop worrying. Because the money is being well spent, and the people getting it are transparent and accountable.

Just kidding:

While some NGOs have long had operations at the border, “what is new under Biden is the amount of taxpayer money being awarded, the lack of accountability for performance, and the lack of interest in solving the problem,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that researches the effect of government immigration policies and describes its bias as “low-immigration, pro-immigrant.”

Well, even so. At least this isn’t some kind of Democrat boondoggle where taxpayers are just handing over money to Democrats. Right? Right?

WRONG:

Vignarajah, a former policy director for Michelle Obama when she was first lady, took the top job at Global Refuge in February 2019 after she lost her bid to be elected governor of Maryland. She has since become one of the most prominent advocates for migrants crossing the southern border, appearing frequently on MSNBC and other media as an immigration advocate. Her incoming salary was $244,000, but just three years later, her compensation more than doubled to $520,000.

Well, I’m sure they are doing a good job. At least they’re not sexually abusing all the kids that taxpayers are paying them to provide for. Right? RIGHT?

WRONG:

The man with the $1 million salary is Dr. Anselmo Villarreal, who became CEO of Southwest Key Programs, headquartered in Austin, Texas, in 2021.

[…]Despite a number of scandals in the recent past, including misuse of federal funds and several instances of employees sexually abusing some of the children in its care, Southwest Key continues to operate—and rake in big government checks. In 2020, the year of Covid-19, its government grant was $391 million; by 2022, its contract was nearly $790 million.

And then there’s this guy, who was in the Obama administration:

Endeavors, Inc., based in San Antonio, Texas, is run by Chip Fulghum. Formerly the chief financial officer of the Department of Homeland Security, he signed on as Endeavors’ chief operating officer in 2019 and was promoted to CEO this year.

In 2022, Fulghum was paid almost $600,000, while the compensation for Endeavors’ then-CEO, Jon Allman, was $700,000. Endeavors’ payroll went from $20 million in 2018 to a whopping $150 million in 2022, with seven other executives earning more than $300,000.

This was a very interesting article and there was more to it than I quoted here. But it really makes you understand what the attitude of these people is towards future Americans – your children. They expect your children to pay for their expensive living today. And Biden is making it happen for them.

Corey DeAngelis: Teacher’s unions fanatical hatred for children

One of my favorite people on Twitter is Corey DeAngelis. Every day I see him fighting for the rights of parents to get the education that they want for their kids. And he follows all the legislation that is being pushed in all the states. What I like about him is that like Ron DeSantis, he always seems to be taking ground from the secular left. Well, he has a new article in the The Federalist. Let’s read it.

It says:

Not a single state had universal school choice prior to 2021. In the past three years, eleven states have enacted it. This is a monumental achievement — and more victories for America’s children are imminent. School choice advocates are grateful to the power-hungry teachers unions, which overplayed their hand and sparked a parent revolution.

He says that there 11 states that have it, but there are more that have introduced legislation to get it.

What I like about Corey is that he’s not afraid to have an enemy in life. I was raised on Cyrano de Bergerac, a play about a French musketeer who always speaks his mind, and offends a lot of bad people. For me, it was always a good sign for your honor if you could point to bad people who opposed you. But today, it seems like the default view, especially of feelings-focused people, is to try to be liked by everyone. Well, Corey likes parents, and parents like Corey. But the teachers unions… they’re his enemies.

He writes:

The teachers unions-induced school closures harmed students academically, mentally, and emotionally, with virtually no reduction in overall coronavirus transmission or child mortality. Parents were understandably furious at the public schools that had broken faith with them during their time of need, and they weren’t going to just sit there and take it.

How did the unions respond to efforts to exert more control? By attacking parents, of course. No, it wasn’t the virus that needed to be defeated. It was you, mom and dad.

The unions publicly smeared parents who had the temerity to suggest that schools should do their jobs. In Chicago, home of the nation’s third-largest public school system, the local union took to Twitter to demonize those who favored reopening schools: “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny,” tweeted the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) on Dec. 6, 2020.

By the way, I noticed a Daily Wire article last week about how the Chicago Teachers Unions wanted 50 BILLION DOLLARS to fund abortions and migrant services, even as student performance is dropping:

Last year, Chicago Public Schools spent nearly $22,000 per student, much higher than the national average of $14,347.

Meanwhile, in 2022, only 12% of Chicago’s eighth graders were proficient in math, and only 19% were proficient in reading.

But let’s get back to Corey’s article. It’s funny that the teacher unions are claiming that parents who wanted schools to re-open were motivated by “racism”.

Take a look at this:

According to McKinsey, by the end of the 2020–21 academic school year, students “in majority-Black schools ended the school year six months behind in both math and reading, while students in majority-white schools ended up just four months behind in math and three months behind in reading.” If any policy had racist results, it was the union-pushed school closures and remote learning — which really should be called remotely learning — not parent-backed school re-openings.

Wow! So, the teacher unions fighting against re-opening schools actually hurt BLACK students the most. To me, it looks like the teacher unions are the real racists – the ones who deliberately cause harm to visible minorities.

I just want to quickly add that there are plenty of studies showing the harm that school shutdowns did to kids:

• Science Advances: The youth mental health crisis: Quasi-experimental evidence on the role of school closures
• Perspectives on Psychological Science: The Impact of School Closures on Learning and Mental Health of Children: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic

But it’s not just name-calling, there’s also spying on parents and persecuting them for wanting the schools open:

The California Teachers Association (CTA) even stooped to spying on parents, conducting what amounts to opposition research, the same as political candidates do on their opponents. A public records request uncovered emails from a union employee asking a public school principal for information about “the ideological leaning of groups that are funding the reopen lawsuits.” She noted that she had heard the principal had “lots of information regarding the Parents Association.”

I’ve read in other places that the secular leftists want to go after parents who oppose them personally – whether that be with doxing, death threats, violence, or other tactics. It’s a labor union, after all.

Elsewhere in the article, Corey notes how the union thugs went after parents who enrolled their kids in small “micro-schools”. These micro-schools would teach kids how to code, using free tools and online teaching videos.

The National Education Association (I think that’s the largest teacher union in America) wrote up opposition research reports to scare parents away from the micro-schools:

The first one warned union members and their allies: “The Opposition Report has documented widespread support for micro-schools.”

The report identified more than 20 additional microschool networks and related organizations, and recommended that their staff and allies familiarize themselves with a list of anti-microschool talking points the NEA had developed, such as that the microschools “do not guarantee students or educators the same civil rights protections that are required in public schools,” their staff are “not required to be credentialed,” and their students “are not held accountable to state standards of learning.”

Well, that’s enough for now. Corey has a new book out about the fight between parents and teacher unions. It’s called “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools”. Check it out. I have the audio version on my wishlist.

Secular leftists claim that conservatives want to ban books: is it true?

I found a very interesting article from January 2024 in The Free Press that sheds some light on the claims by the secular left that conservatives want to ban books. In the article, the author James Fishback looked a variety of school districts to see which conservative books they stock in their libraries. Then he compared those numbers with the numbers of liberal books.

Here’s the article from The Free Press:

Over the last couple years, the media have peddled a narrative of “book bans” sweeping the nation. Book bans (ostensibly by the right) are “eating away at democracy,” according to The Guardian, and are “taking an emotional toll,” warned CNN.

[…]So I decided to investigate just how one-sided things actually are. I surveyed the library catalogs of 35 of the largest public school districts in eight red states and six blue states, representing over 4,600 individual schools. All of these records are publicly available online. (Here are just three online catalogs I searched: Broward County, FL, Austin, TX, and Oklahoma City, OK.) What I discovered isn’t so much a problem of banned books. It’s that kids are often exposed to only one side of the story.

And here are the leftist books:

I looked up books written by some of the world’s most well-known progressive thinkers. Here is the percentage, out of the 35 school districts, that stock each book:

Title and Percentage of 35 Districts

The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx) — 75%

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent (Isabel Wilkerson) — 60%

The 1619 Project (Nikole Hannah-Jones) — 54%

Stamped (Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi) — 71%

An African American and Latinx History of the U.S. (Paul Ortiz) — 40%

The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander) — 60%

Guide to Political Revolution (Bernie Sanders) — 40%

White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo) — 54%

So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo) — 57%

This Book Is Anti-Racist (Tiffany Jewell) — 45%

White Rage (Carol Anderson) — 17%

And here are the conservative books:

Meanwhile, I looked up books written by some of the world’s most well-known conservative thinkers. Here is the percentage, out of the 35 school districts, that stock each book:

Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman) — 8%

Created Equal (Dr. Ben Carson) — 5%

Woke Racism (John McWhorter) — 3%

Breaking History (Jared Kushner) — 2%

Social Justice Fallacies (Thomas Sowell) — 0%

The War on the West (Douglas Murray) — 0%

The 1619 Project: A Critique (Phillip W. Magness) — 0%

The Case Against Impeaching Trump (Alan Dershowitz) — 0%

Decades of Decadence (Marco Rubio) — 0%

The Diversity Delusion (Heather Mac Donald) — 0%

The Case for Trump (Victor Davis Hanson) — 0%

This is not surprising for anyone who understands the public school and library industries. These places are staffed and run by secular leftists. So of course they are going to cry about book banning, even when they are the ones banning the books.

Look:

It’s no secret that many school libraries have become reflections of politicized librarians. Take Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association and a self-proclaimed Marxist, who said during a socialism conference last September in Chicago that public education “needs to be a site of socialist organizing. I think libraries really do, too. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing.”

One last thing, I thought this was a very interesting quote from the article, especially since Christian parents and leaders seem to be fond of blaming men for the decline of dating and marriage:

And is it any surprise that 76 percent of Gen Z and millennial women wouldn’t date a Republican, according to a Change Research poll from September? They’ve likely never been exposed to conservative ideas, and thus, entirely dismiss conservatives as people.

Public schools should be a last resort for education the children of Christians and conservatives. They are not fair and balanced. They are biased. And they are dishonest. If I had children, I would never send them to public schools. I would make sure before marrying that we could afford to homeschool or send the kids to private schools. Government schools and libraries are child abuse.