FLASHBACK: Obama Allotted $19 Million to Register Immigrant Voters

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In November 2014, Barack Obama established the White House Task Force on New Americans – a government-wide effort injected with $19 million whose purpose was to integrate immigrants and refugees into American communities.

In 2015, the Obama administration also launched the “Stand Stronger” Citizenship Awareness Campaign whose goal was to reach the 8.8 million lawful permanent residents (LPRs) eligible to apply for citizenship.

All this was done in flagrant defiance of the growing election-year anger at illegal immigration with then candidate Donald Trump calling for stronger borders and more stringent screening. Hillary Clinton on the other end saying our borders were secure and promoting more immigration.

Rolling out the program in California’s largest city was no accident. As the Los Angeles Times observed, “in recent years, California has moved repeatedly to provide rights, benefits, and protections to immigrants in the country illegally, including in-state tuition, driver’s licenses, rules to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, senior deputy director in the White House Office of Public Engagement, was more coy. “Starting in California is a perfect kickoff, from our perspective,” she told the Times, New American reported.

There should be no doubt what programs like the “Task Force on New Americans” was really about, growing the constituency of the Democratic Party.

Judicial Watch:

A year after President Obama launched his Task Force on New Americans the administration is injecting it with a $19 million infusion so it can achieve its key initiative of registering new voters that will likely support Democrats in the upcoming election.

Officially, this is being described as enhancing pathways to naturalization by offering immigrants free citizenship instruction, English, U.S. history and civics courses. The cash is being distributed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that oversees lawful immigration, and the obvious goal is to register more immigrant voters because they tend to be Democrat.

Otherwise a Democrat commander-in-chief and his open-borders Domestic Policy Director wouldn’t be operating such a costly project. Judicial Watch wrote about the new task force last April, reporting that its chair is none other than Cecilia Muñoz, the former vice president of the powerful open borders group National Council of La Raza (NCLR).

Obama recruited Muñoz to be White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs then promoted her to the more powerful and prestigious post of Domestic Policy Director. That gives her tremendous influence as the president’s top adviser on domestic issues as well as the White House official in charge of coordinating and supervising the execution of domestic policy.

As head of the Task Force on New Americans Muñoz recruited like-minded leaders from various agencies—including the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, State, Education, Transportation and Health—to brainstorm about ways to empower immigrants.

Additionally, another $9 million will fund programs that provide both citizenship instruction and instruction and naturalization application services.”

The administration brags about spending millions in recent years to support the quality work of organizations that play a vital role in helping residents prepare for naturalization, but seems to acknowledge this year is special and therefore more money will be dedicated to the cause.

Read between the lines; presidential election. The extra cash “will help nonprofits establish new citizenship instruction programs or expand the quality and reach of existing ones,” the agency writes. “Examples of eligible organizations include private, nonprofit organizations such as civic, community and faith-based organizations; adult education organizations; and volunteer and literacy organizations.

A separate funding opportunity will award approximately $9 million to public or nonprofit organizations that prepare permanent residents for citizenship by offering both citizenship instruction and naturalization application services.”

This is only a small part of the new task force’s mission. Practically every federal agency will participate in this effort by contributing resources and creating programs to help immigrants. For example the Department of Labor (DOL) will implement “new workforce programs” for the “new Americans” and the Department of Education will promote “funding opportunities” to assure that the immigrants “are provided the tools they need to succeed.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will collaborate with other agencies to release a career and credentialing toolkit on “immigrant-focused career-pathways programs.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) and USCIS will make sure the new Americans have worker rights and protections, the task force says, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will launch a two-year pilot to assure that non English speakers have “meaningful access to housing programs” subsidized by American taxpayers. More

The Obama administration spent a lot of time, resources and millions of dollars on immigrants, one would think that money could have been better spent in places like Chicago, where inner-city children are desperate for new schools.

H/T: BB4SP

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