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?”

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“Congressman, the U.S. funds—” Valls Noyes responded before Issa interjected and said, “It’s a yes or no. It really is.”

“Yes,” Valls Noyes responded. 

Issa then presented a series of slides from HIAS that showed the group explaining in Spanish the best ways to use the asylum system to enter the U.S. and detailing the legal process to enter the country.

“Are you aware of this packet that was used throughout 2023,” Issa asked, to which Valls Noyes responded, “Yes.”

“Does it limit to legal activities in Mexico or does it on pages 9, 10, and 11 clearly advise people on how to get asylum in the U.S.?”

Valls Noyes responded by saying “this packet of information was not funded by PRM” and instead by the “U.N. refugee agency.”

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“Was this organization at this time under funding from the United States,” Issa asked. 

“The organization was, this packet was not,” Valls Noyes responded. 

Valls Noyes said that she was not “aware” of the packet until the department was…