Comer, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, and Stefanik, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, write to Mayorkas requesting information about the use of NGOs as part of its response to the crisis at the southern border.
"The Biden administration’s plan for dealing with historic levels of illegal border crossings amounts to a directive to components to simply release -- with little to no consequence --more aliens, more quickly into the United States," they write, in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. "To carry out this task, the Biden administration increasingly relies on non-governmental organizations including those who may be receiving taxpayer funding from various federal or state sources."
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"We write to conduct oversight into the relationship between DHS and [NGOs] who are facilitating those releases, as well as the use of taxpayer money to subsidize these activities," they say. "American taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going and how it is being used."
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The Biden administration has been trying to handle enormous amounts of migrant encounters at the southern border since shortly after taking office. Recently, there have been more than 200,000 encounters a month amid a historic spring and summer increase.
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While the Biden administration has blamed root causes like poverty, violence and climate change in Central America, Republicans have accused the administration of supporting the surge with its policies of transporting illegal immigrants into the U.S. to await their asylum hearings -- rather than ousting them to Mexico.
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While DHS has said it does not finance the travel of migrants into the U.S., those released will often be referred to NGOs, who will in turn organize help and transport for migrants to get to their destinations where friends or family may be.
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While this NGO position is not unusual to the Biden administration, the Republicans say they believe that in the current crisis "NGOs have been used as a tool to enable the mass release of hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossers into the United States."
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They stress comments by Mayorkas in which he has said the agency is "bolstering the capacity of NGOs" to get migrants, with coordination with federal agencies such as FEMA, which they believe suggests that NGOs are getting taxpayer money.
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