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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: NGOs as a parallel government
Date: 04/21/25 7:52 PM
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I see this in Seattle a lot with the Homeless Industrial Complex - you ask them to track where they're spending their public money and the answer is "We're a private outfit". The left has been enabling this for years:
nypost.com - How democrats used ngos to end run voters and democracy

How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters: A ‘parallel government’
By Glenn H. Reynolds

Published April 14, 2025, 6:20 p.m. ET

They’re not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.

Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.

But as we’ve learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many “non-governmental” entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.

Count me in this camp.

For example, America’s border crisis was funded in large part by President Joe Biden’s government, which sent large sums of money in the form of grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants on how to get to the United States — and how to claim asylum when they arrived.

NGOs helped the illegal immigrants with expenses on their way, and then provided legal resources and more than $22 billion worth of assistance for them — including cash for cars, home loans and business start-ups — once they got in.

This was US taxpayer money, laundered through “independent” organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.

Under President Trump, this funding halted — and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal immigrants did, too.

Funny, that.

More at the link.
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