Fox News: Left-wing group secured $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation

IRLI In The News

January 14, 2022

By Joe Schoffstall

A progressive group that views immigration enforcement agencies as a “threat” to civil liberties secured a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract to help unaccompanied minors avoid deportation, records show.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded the Vera Institute of Justice, a left-wing nonprofit that backs defunding the police, the contract in 2021 to “provide immigration related legal services to unaccompanied minors,” according to USASpending, a federal contract database.

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