Border charities spend taxpayer millions on music therapy, ‘people-plant interactions’ and huge salaries: says report

By Megan Palin

Published May 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET

Border crisis charities are getting huge government grants and spending them on music therapy sessions and “people-plant interactions” for migrants and $1 million salaries for staff, according to a new report.

Several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) which run shelters in the border states of Texas, Arizona, and California are federally funded by the Unaccompanied Children Program to resettle migrant minors who enter the US alone.

According to The Free Press, these organizations are getting rich off the contracts, with the combined revenue of the top three growing from $597 million in 2019 to a whopping $2 billion by 2022, the most recent federal disclosure documents available.

The three NGOs are named as Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc. Read More here:

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