Issa rips State Department for spreading ‘knowingly false’ info on funding migrant counseling to enter US
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed President Biden’s State Department for being caught with its hands in the “cookie jar” over taxpayer dollars going toward counseling migrants on how to use the asylum process to enter the U.S.
“Your department is responsible for giving us knowingly false information,” Issa told Julieta Valls Noyes, assistant secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) at the State Department, during a Thursday hearing, referencing the department’s PRM program funding a nonprofit organization known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).
“We were told… PRM has not funded and does not fund legal representation or counseling related to immigration proceedings,” Issa explained, referencing a letter from the State Department to the committee. “Again, later, in December, from the government of Mexico, PRM does not fund legal representation or counseling related to U.S. immigration proceedings and legal assistance provided to those in Mexico is solely for the Mexican legal processes.”
Issa continued, “Under the rules of US 18 Title 1001, is that a true statement? Either of those?”
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., grills State Department official
