The Taxpayer Funded Deportation Prevention Machine
Jim Jordan isn’t playing games anymore. The House Judiciary Committee chair just launched an investigation into the Acacia Center for Justice, a leftist organization that’s been working overtime to make sure the millions of illegal aliens Joe Biden waved into this country never leave. And here’s the kicker: they’re doing it with your money.
The letter Jordan sent Friday to ACJ Executive Director Shaina Aber pulls no punches. He wants answers about how this group has been helping illegal aliens stay in America while regular citizens foot the bill. We’re talking hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars here, not pocket change.
Let’s be clear about what the Acacia Center for Justice actually does. According to InfluenceWatch, they provide legal advice and counsel to illegal immigrants facing deportation. That’s the polite version. The reality? They’re running interference against immigration enforcement, throwing legal roadblocks at every turn to prevent people who entered illegally from facing consequences.
You know what really gets under my skin? The sheer audacity of it all. The Biden administration created this mess at the border. Everyone knows it. They opened the floodgates, let millions pour through, and then organizations like ACJ swoop in to make sure these folks become permanent fixtures. It’s a conveyor belt system, and American taxpayers are funding both ends.
When Losing Track Becomes Policy
Jordan’s letter highlights something that should terrify every parent in America. The Biden-Harris Department of Health and Human Services created a rule that funneled federal money to groups providing legal representation for unaccompanied alien children. Sounds almost charitable, right? Until you realize the government lost track of roughly 150,000 of these kids.
Lost track. Let that sink in.
These weren’t misplaced files or accounting errors. These were actual children entrusted to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the administration simply doesn’t know where they are. Meanwhile, the legal groups getting paid to represent them kept cashing checks. The ACJ used this funding to help these minors obtain immigration status, work permits, and access to medical services. All worthy goals perhaps, if we weren’t talking about people who shouldn’t be here in the first place and a system that can’t even maintain basic accountability.
The ideology driving ACJ isn’t hidden either. They state plainly on their website that “No immigrant should be detained.” Not some immigrants. Not violent criminals who happen to be immigrants. No immigrant, period. They want to abolish using local law enforcement for immigration purposes entirely.
Think about that for a second. They’re advocating for a system where immigration law effectively doesn’t exist. Where border sovereignty becomes a quaint notion our grandparents believed in.
The Racial Smokescreen
Here’s where it gets really rich. The ACJ claims America’s immigration detention and deportation system is “intentionally designed to exploit, exclude, criminalize, detain, and deport people who have historically been viewed as undeserving of inclusion in our national fabric, particularly black and brown people.”
This is the standard playbook. Can’t defend your position on the merits? Call it racist. Never mind that immigration law applies regardless of skin color. Never mind that countries across the globe, including those in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, enforce their borders without apology. Never mind that legal immigrants of all backgrounds wait years and spend thousands following the rules.
No, according to ACJ, enforcing the law is inherently racist. It’s exhausting, honestly. And it’s insulting to every legal immigrant who did things the right way.
The real issue here isn’t race. It’s respect for the rule of law versus open contempt for it. It’s the difference between a country with borders and a country without them. The ACJ has chosen their side, and they’re not shy about it.
What This Investigation Means
Jordan’s probe matters because it’s shining light on the infrastructure propping up this border disaster. The crisis isn’t just about overwhelmed Border Patrol agents or overcrowded facilities. It’s about a whole ecosystem of nonprofits, legal groups, and advocacy organizations working to ensure that Biden’s border invasion becomes permanent.
These groups operate in the shadows, filing motions, providing services, coaching illegal aliens on how to game the system. They know the loopholes better than most immigration judges. And they’ve gotten very good at keeping people here who have no legal right to stay.
The federal funding angle is crucial too. When private organizations use private money for causes you disagree with, that’s their right. But when they’re sucking up taxpayer dollars to undermine immigration enforcement? That’s a different conversation entirely. That requires scrutiny, transparency, and accountability.
We’re not talking about helping a few deserving cases navigate a complex system. We’re talking about systematic opposition to deportation as a matter of principle. The ACJ’s own words prove it. They don’t think anyone should be detained. They don’t think local cops should assist with immigration enforcement. They think the whole system is racist and illegitimate.
Fine. They can think whatever they want. But they shouldn’t get government contracts to act on those beliefs.
The Jordan investigation will hopefully reveal the full scope of how much money has flowed to ACJ and similar groups. How many deportations they’ve prevented. How many illegal aliens they’ve helped secure work permits and benefits. How many unaccompanied minors they represented who are now among the 150,000 the government lost.
Americans deserve answers. We deserve to know how our tax dollars are being weaponized against our own immigration laws. We deserve accountability from an administration that treated the border like a suggestion and then funded the legal apparatus to make their invasion permanent.
This isn’t complicated. Countries have borders. Laws mean something. Or at least they should. The Acacia Center for Justice and groups like it represent the opposite philosophy. They represent the idea that American sovereignty is negotiable, that immigration law is optional, and that taxpayers should fund their own displacement.
Jordan’s asking the right questions. Let’s see if he gets straight answers.
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