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In Mexico's Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
2024-01-23
[Center For Immigration Studies] TAPACHULA, Mexico — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is handing out cash debit cards and other funds for lodging and prescription medicines to U.S.-bound migrants who spill out into this southern Mexican city by the hundreds of thousands.

Every day, word of the UN’s cash assistance draws long lines of hopeful U.S.-bound migrants to a large, grey building staffed by application-takers and interviewers who determine who gets the money.

Haitian Luis Ponce was in line one recent day, not to get his application going, but to complain to the officials inside that the UN is in arrears. The international agency had not recharged his debit card-linked local bank account, a yellow and gray plastic affair with a UNHCR/ACNUR insignia in the upper third left corner, with the 3,600 pesos owed (about $180).

"We don’t have money now," Ponce complained, flashing the empty card.

And, as the Center for Immigration Studies has previously reported after first seeing the cash cards distributed at a Reynosa, Mexico, migrant camp, the United Nations is sharply escalating the amounts of cash and other direct financial assistance to immigrants all along the migrant trail from Panama to Texas, at an uncharted series of some 100 waystations like this one in Tapachula. It is part of a program the United Nations calls "cash-based interventions" (CBI). UN documents say the program is meant to "restore feelings of choice and empowerment to beneficiaries", a part of which may well mean that migrants are able to keep moving north rather than returning home
Posted by:Besoeker

#22   I'm not trying to cause anyone here problems,

I know, my dear — you have a good heart. Just please don’t get so carried away you forget to think, ok?
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-23 20:54  

#21  i don't think they liked me Frank
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 20:46  

#20  Seafarious? Emily was a sweet lass
Posted by: Frank G   2024-01-23 19:11  

#19  You're not gonna go Seafarious on are you?
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 15:54  

#18  I'm not trying to cause anyone here problems, just stating my opinion.
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 15:51  

#17  just not afraid to say it.

You know the rules, Chris. Here at Rantburg we don’t cause Fred problems by saying things that physically threaten Americans.

It’s not funny when that group in the FBI thinks they’ve found a target for creating their next Whitmer kidnap plot. Or idiots on the left pretending to be sympathetic conservatives, putting racism, Jew-hate, and violent threats into the comments to make us look bad. We don’t want to attract that kind of thing here.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-01-23 12:48  

#16  How many of the flesh traders are so flush now governments have taken up arms against them?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-01-23 12:26  

#15  The irony we face is that we are being endlessly prodded to create the massive civil protests that will be defined as the predicate for the declaration of a national emergency (and thus cancellation of national elections), by the behavior of a Malignant Administration whose failure to obey the law is in fact a predicate for an actual national emergency.

But this forum must not lose it's ability to inform and observe. There are historic precedents for such things in our history that some here might recall as more apt however.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2024-01-23 12:17  

#14  I'm not the only 1 thinking it TW, just not afraid to say it.
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 11:51  

#13  At the point where we are being rounded up for the camps it will be too late.

That much is true.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 08:58  

#12  @#9 Keep your head in the sand then. You have statistics on everything. How is that way of going about it working out for ANYONE at this point? Let me guess your answer, GET OUT AN VOTE. Shit don't work anymore.
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 08:54  

#11  
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 08:52  

#10  None of us gets out alive. never saw a hearse with
a u-haul. Be prepared to die for what you believe.
If 2024 election is not clean throw the sh-t in the fan.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2024-01-23 08:49  

#9  

Sorry cannot support #5's comment .
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-01-23 08:30  

#8  We are nearing the end of the slowly part of "Slowly, then all at once."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 08:23  

#7  ^^^ they would do the same to you if they could get away with it.
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 08:22  

#6  ^ Not a fan of the idea but what else is there? The voting box is no longer available. We're down to that last box we never thought we'd have to reach for. Surrender is an option, though.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-01-23 08:20  

#5  
Cut it out, Chris.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 10:16 a.m. ET
Posted by: Chris   2024-01-23 07:39  

#4  ^ Not by choice.

"Muh duh-mocracy..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 07:25  

#3  
The United States remains the largest donor to the United Nations. It contributed more than $12 billion in 2021 alone.

In 2023, the United Nations assessed the United States’ share of the regular UN budget at 22% and its share of the peacekeeping budget at 27%.

So when the UN gives cash to ILLEGALS to invade the USA, We The People are largely funding it.
Posted by: NN2N1   2024-01-23 07:22  

#2  But remember: Every year American school teachers have to buy classroom supplies out of their own pockets because your taxes aren't high enough, you greedy what supremaciss prole MAGA deplorable.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-23 06:35  

#1  US taxpayer dollars at work.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-23 02:04  

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