UN Funds Migrant Wave Flooding to the U.S. by NEIL MUNRO for Breitbart
The U.S.-funded United Nations is providing cash to help job-seeking migrants trek up through South America, Central America, and Mexico, says Todd Bensman at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“It is definitely organized,” Bensman told Breitbart News on Monday during a reporting trip to Tapachula in southern Mexico, where migrants arrive after crossing Central America:
They’re giving money out at way-stations up and down the [migrant] trail … There’s a process [in Tapachula]: You get your Mexican [visa] papers, then you go to the UN building next door, get an appointment, and they interview you and look at your situation… It’s not big money, and not all of them get it, but enough get it to sustain them so they don’t have to go home, and so they can go on to the next way station.
Bensman tweeted a video of the migrants waiting for payments:
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Photo I just took of a Honduran migrant woman’s United Nations-issued cash card, which provided 2,500 pesos a month for 4,
the max in this one city of Tapachula, Mexico. All part of the UN “cash-based interventions” program I wrote about last month here: https://t.co/ocDcwnnAL7 pic.twitter.com/9l5F2sjevz— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) January 17, 2022
The funding helps poor migrants from Africa and Asia survive the deadly and brutal trek through South American, over the Darien Gap, through Central America, and into Mexico. Without the UN-provided money, many of the migrants risk going without food, shelter, or short-distance transport.
This US-bound Haitian in Tapachula, Mexico complains that the UN failed to make its January payment to him and now his UN debit card is empty… pic.twitter.com/32N3IpKhTB
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) January 14, 2022
The taxpayer-funded UN also funds migrant families as they rationally make their way towards U.S. jobs, neighborhoods, and K-12 schools:
At the United Nations office in Tapachula, Haitian immigrants wait in lines to apply for cash assistance. These ones feel as though Colombians and Venezuelans are edging them out for the $ but they’re game to keep trying! pic.twitter.com/VIhT7pHtwr
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) January 14, 2022
The migrants can walk thousands of miles on their treks, guided by advice from the migrants’ cellphone-carried network. This migrant is more than halfway through his hoped-for 5,000-mile trek from Venezuala to Las Vegas:
A Venezuelan in southern Mexico describes his route pic.twitter.com/gQclXCJOqS
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) January 14, 2022
In Mexico, the migrants need to register with Mexico’s government before they can apply for the UN cash:
A sea of African migrants outside the Mexican COMAR immigration offices to get papers in Tapachula, Mexico near the Guatemala border. Later@they will try for UN cash debit cards. They are Senegalese, Nigerians, Angolans and Ghanians. They tell me so@e Somalis are here pic.twitter.com/8BVsgPfWeN
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) January 17, 2022
