By Rep. Lance Gooden and Dan Stein
The Biden administration saw unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens enter our country. As a result, the public saw its security compromised, its communities inundated, its public resources overwhelmed, and billions of its tax dollars squandered.
At the same time, the criminal cartels that ran massive human smuggling operations grew ever richer and more powerful as a result of former President Joe Biden’s border crisis. But they were not the only ones cashing in on the crisis that brought millions of illegal aliens to the United States over the past four years. An assortment of nongovernmental organizations, ideologically committed to open borders, simultaneously facilitated and profited from resettling illegal aliens across the country.
Some 11 million illegal aliens were encountered at our borders between 2021 and 2025, with millions released or paroled into the country. Many of them lacked a place to live and other basic necessities. Lacking the capacity to address those needs, the federal government turned to NGOs to serve as contractors. These groups were tasked with finding or providing migrants with shelter, ensuring they were fed and had access to healthcare, and enrolling them in public assistance programs.
Very little of this assistance came out of their own pockets. Instead, the government paid these NGOs to provide many of the services needed by the hundreds of thousands of migrants the Biden administration was allowing into the country every month.