Well, why else would they do it?

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NGOs Making Bank on Border Crisis

David Strom:

Would you like to make more than half a million dollars a year without having any discernable skills?

Well, the easiest way is to become a music therapist for migrant children. Christy Merrell was paid $533,000 in 2021 to soothe the savage breasts of migrant children in 2021 by the government-funded nonprofit "Endeavors."

Personally, I would prefer to go that route rather than make more than a million dollars a year as the CEO of Southwest Key Programs, another NGO that the Biden Administration is shoveling ungodly amounts of money toward. Being a CEO requires work and subjects you to some legal liability. 

Strom: “It makes you want to cry. Even some Democrats are appalled by the amount of graft.”

“The amount of taxpayer money they are getting is obscene,” Charles Marino, former adviser to Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, said of the NGOs. “We’re going to find that the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money will rival what we saw with the Covid federal money.”

“I can believe that. Here in Minnesota, a Somali gang walked off with hundreds of millions of dollars of stolen COVID aid money that was supposed to feed school children who were part of the school lunch program. Since the kids weren't going to school, the money was given to nonprofits to feed them. 

They never did. And that's just one state. 

We see the same thing happening with the border crisis.”

The Free Press examined three of the most prominent NGOs that have benefited: Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc. These organizations have seen their combined revenue grow from $597 million in 2019 to an astonishing $2 billion by 2022, the last year for which federal disclosure documents are available. And the CEOs of all three nonprofits reap more than $500,000 each in annual compensation, with one of them—the chief executive of Southwest Key—making more than $1 million.

Some of the services NGOs provide are eyebrow-raising. For example, Endeavors uses taxpayer funds to offer migrant children “pet therapy,” “horticulture therapy,” and music therapy. In 2021 alone, Endeavors paid Christy Merrell, a music therapist, $533,000. An internal Endeavors PowerPoint obtained by America First Legal, an outfit founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, showed that the nonprofit conducted 1,656 “people-plant interactions” and 287 pet therapy sessions between April 2021 and March 2023.