A worker at a plastic folding table inside the Reynosa immigration camp in Mexico, announced they were distributing the cards for IOM to assist the waiting migrants.
They must wait to cross the Rio Grande at greater leisure to claim asylum, for which most will be declared ineligible years later.
Many parents, for example, got roughly $400 every 15 days, or $800 a month if they were still there to get it, although the support level varied.
Pictures of the incident posted to Twitter and related dispatch for the Center for Immigration Studies attracted fury among some Republican lawmakers. They noticed the photos as evidence that the U.S. taxpayer-funded IOM provided material support to a continuous mass migration harmful to America’s national interest.
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A couple of weeks later, Texas Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and 11 other House Republican co-sponsors presented the “No Tax Dollars for the United Nations Immigration Invasion Act” bill.
The bill bans the $3.8 billion in contributions currently suggested in the White House 2022 budget to the IOM and other UN-backed organizations. A Daily Caller story that broke news of the bill’s introduction quoted Gooden citing the Reynosa photos.
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The money card proves to be true; there is also evidence of the “hard cash in envelopes,” movement assistance, and an online IOM “Emergency Manual.” This program for migrants is called “Cash-Based Interventions,” or CBIs.
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For starters, country-specific IOM “Cash Working Groups” are coordinating the handouts of the cash-holding plastic cards to U.S. border crossers in Reynosa, Mexico. The IOM is handing out cash and other material aid to illegal border crossers in as many as 100 other shelters it helped build, expand, or funds from Central America North.
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Some form of this has been around for years, but with a mass-migration event and Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy in 2019, the IOM supercharged the program and “institutionalized” it. This doubled the number of nations that used it in 2020 and raised the total to 1.6 million recipients worldwide.
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The IOM Emergency Manual document states that this cash assistance includes less-visible bank transfers, mobile transfers, and e-vouchers that intend illegal border crossers en route.
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