Issa rips State Department for spreading 'knowingly false' info on funding migrant counseling to enter US

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a subordinate of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed President Biden's State Department for being caught with its hands successful the "cookie jar" implicit payer dollars going toward counseling migrants connected however to usage the asylum process to participate the United States. 

"Your section is liable for giving america knowingly mendacious information," Issa told Julieta Valls Noyes, adjunct caput for Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) astatine the State Department, during a Thursday hearing, referencing the department’s PRM programme backing a nonprofit enactment known arsenic the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). 

"We were told…PRM has not funded and does not money ineligible practice oregon counseling related to migration proceedings," Issa explained, referencing a missive from the State Department to the committee. "Again, later, successful December, from the authorities of Mexico, PRM does not money ineligible practice oregon counseling related to U.S. migration proceedings and ineligible assistance provided to those successful Mexico is solely for the Mexican ineligible processes."

Issa continued, "Under the rules of US 18 Title 1001, is that a existent statement? Either of those?"

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Rep. Darrell Issa grilled State Department authoritative Julieta Valls Noyes during a Thursday hearing. (House Foreign Affairs Committee)

"Congressman, the U.S. funds," Valls Noyes responded earlier Issa interjected and said, "It’s a yes oregon no. It truly is."

"Yes," Valls Noyes responded. 

Issa past presented a bid of slides from HIAS that showed the radical explaining successful Spanish the champion ways to usage the asylum strategy to participate the United States and detailing the ineligible process to participate the country.

"Are you alert of this packet that was utilized passim 2023," Issa asked, to which Valls Noyes responded, "Yes."

"Does it bounds to ineligible activities successful Mexico oregon does it connected pages 9, 10, and 11 intelligibly counsel radical connected however to get asylum successful the U.S.?"

Valls Noyes responded by saying "this packet of accusation was not funded by PRM" and alternatively by the "U.N. exile agency."

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"Was this enactment astatine this clip nether backing from the United States," Issa asked. 

"The enactment was, this packet was not," Valls Noyes responded. 

Valls Noyes said that she was not "aware" of the packet until the section was gathering documents to comply with House oversight, but said again that it was "not funded" straight by PRM.

"Ma’am, I’m going to marque thing precise wide to you," Issa said. "The intent of Congress is not to usage the fungibility of wealth to springiness to an enactment that goes retired with the radical that you are backing and those radical and that enactment bash thing inconsistent with what you archer Congress your mandate is."

"Money is fungible. As agelong arsenic you springiness to this organization, which I recognize you’re inactive backing astir the world, and they person a dual purpose, and they usage that dual intent to bash thing that Congress intelligibly doesn’t want. Nowhere successful this deck, we’ll telephone it U.N. funded for a infinitesimal conscionable to wit you, obscurity successful this platform does it suggest you tin question refuge successful Mexico, which nether planetary instrumentality you person not lone a close to but an work to."

Issa went connected to explicate that the State Department was efficaciously encouraging migrants to debar seeking asylum successful Mexico and alternatively participate the United States astatine the "federal taxpayers expense."

"If you money the meeting, and you usage the deck, however is it that you tin accidental you’re telling america without trickery oregon immoderate benignant of misleading that this wasn’t funded, oregon astatine slightest enabled by the United States government, maam?" Issa asked aboriginal successful the hearing. 

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"Again, congressman, we did not money the accumulation of the deck, but it is close that the platform was utilized successful briefings wherever we were besides informing migrants astir the quality to question asylum successful Mexico," Valls Noyes said. 

"You’re a large diplomat," Issa responded. "Because diplomats archer radical to spell to hellhole and marque them battalion and look guardant to the travel I conjecture due to the fact that determination is nary information to what you conscionable said. It is highly wide that if a group, I don’t attraction who printed it oregon handed it out, a radical you were backing waters and proscription and everything other to bring to an event, big the event, nether the colour of the United States of America. Not the United Nations. And past you accidental ‘Oh we didn’t money it. They got the wealth fungibly from determination else.’ Ma’am, there's not 1 American that would judge that."

Valls Noyes went connected to accidental that the State Department ceased backing HIAS successful 2023 and is successful afloat successful compliance with the instrumentality and akin slides are not presently being passed out. 

"HIAS is the world's oldest exile extortion agency, moving to supply captious services to refugees, asylum seekers, and different forcibly displaced and stateless persons astir the satellite arsenic a longstanding spouse of the U.S. authorities and the American Jewish community," a HIAS spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "HIAS complies with U.S. instrumentality and our assistance agreements, including those applicable to the HIAS task that was discussed astatine yesterday's hearing."

Issa spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital aft the proceeding and said the speech represented an "outright lie" from the State Department, who arsenic precocious arsenic this year, successful a missive to committee Chair Matt McCaul, distanced itself from the slides arguing that PRM did not straight money the instauration of the existent slideshow, but acknowledged backing the league it was utilized at.

"When you get caught with your manus successful the cooky jar, the archetypal happening you bash is to contradict the cooky jar," Issa said. "The adjacent happening you bash is contradict the manus and that's truly what she did. Confronted with a papers that intelligibly said this enactment was advocating connected however to circumvent being rejected astatine the border. She said we lone funded moving with the Mexicans to comply with the government."

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"Then erstwhile confronted with, well, no, you paid for these radical simultaneously. Well, yeah, but we didn't wage for that. Then, erstwhile confronted with, but you paid for events wherever they presented it. She said, "But we didn't wage for the accumulation of the papers they presented."

Issa told Fox News Digital helium cited the circumstantial instrumentality helium cited successful the proceeding "for a reason." 

"It doesn't conscionable accidental outright lie," Issa explained. "It says to deceive, to trick. It is intended to marque you susceptible to a good and adjacent up to 5 years successful situation for deceiving Congress. And clearly, her denials were intended to deceive astatine slightest the public. It surely didn't deceive Congress due to the fact that it was beauteous evident connected the look of it that our authorities knowingly facilitated these radical providing, circumventing going to the borderline and successful nary mode were encouraging radical to enactment successful Mexico oregon comply with Mexican law."

Issa continued, "You cannot money an organization, money the gathering they had, money bringing the radical there, supply tons of different funding, food, water, the like, and past accidental that the presumption fixed wasn't the presumption that was prohibited by law. She acknowledged that that presumption would person been prohibited by law, but she simply said, 'we didn't money it.' And, you know, that's benignant of similar saying we took the idiosyncratic to the bank. Yes, we vouch for them, but the counterfeit bills were printed by idiosyncratic else."

The Center for Immigration Studies reported earlier this year that the Biden medication has been progressive for respective years in "mainlining payer funds" to a assortment of nonprofits that "then administer them to support hundreds of thousands of migrants comfortably moving toward amerciable U.S. confederate borderline crossings."

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a State Department spokesperson again denied that the descent presumption was straight funded by U.S. taxpayers.

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"The Department of State's humanitarian assistance done planetary organizations and NGOs does not promote oregon beforehand irregular migration and U.S. payer dollars were not utilized to nutrient the slides successful question," the spokesperson said. 

"On the contrary, The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration supports programs that assistance displaced individuals get ineligible status, documentation, employment, and acquisition successful countries passim the Western Hemisphere truthful radical tin find stableness and integrate," the spokesperson continued. "All contributions to implementing partners prohibits the usage of authorities funds for activities that "encourage, mobilize, publicize, oregon negociate mass-migration caravans towards the United States southwest border; ineligible counselling connected the United States asylum process; and/or referrals to ineligible practice successful the United States."

Issa told Fox News Digital that "this is not the extremity of it all" and helium intends to "pursue this into the adjacent Congress."

"All the radical progressive successful this person to beryllium fleshed retired due to the fact that  you know, oversight is not astir asking questions and going distant and oversight is not astir asking questions and erstwhile you're fixed the answers, adjacent if they're untrue, going away," Issa said. "It's astir not quitting until you person the information and not quitting until radical who effort to obfuscate oregon fell person held accountable. And close now, she's not being held accountable."