VIDEO: GOP rep rips State Dept after finding document blowing up their narrative on migrants at border, Blinken vows more ‘refugees’

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From Fox News: 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 United States.

“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?”

When Noyes claimed the statements were true, Issa then presented a series of slides from HIAS which literally gives instructions in Spanish on how to take advantage of the asylum system to enter the United States.

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

Issa fired back, noting that the U.S. taxpayer money was ultimately funding the material, even if it was funneled in instead of being spent directly.

“Again, congressman, we did not fund the production of the deck, but it is accurate that the deck was used in briefings where we were also informing migrants about the ability to seek asylum in Mexico,” Valls Noyes said defiantely.

In a fiery rebuke, Issa said, “You’re a great diplomat. Because diplomats tell people to go to hell and make them pack and look forward to the trip I guess because there is no truth to what you just said. It is extremely clear that if a group, I don’t care who printed it or handed it out, a group you were funding waters and transportation and everything else to bring to an event, host the event, under the color of the United States of America. Not the United Nations. And then you say ‘Oh we didn’t fund it. They got the money fungibly from somewhere else.’ Ma’am, there’s not one American that would believe that.”

“When you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, the first thing you do is to deny the cookie jar,” Issa said later. “The next thing you do is deny the hand and that’s really what she did.”

WATCH the entire exchange in the video below:

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted a video bragging about the numbers of Americans who have helped to resettle refugees in communities all across the United States, and claimed that “refugees have immeasurably strengthened our communities and our nation.”

Blinken added, “As the world faces an unprecedented displacement crisis, the United States is determined not only to remain the world’s biggest humanitarian donor, but to help even more people escaping persecution resettle here in the United States.”

“To all the sponsors who have helped find them homes, enroll in schools, and pursue their dreams: Thank you,” Blinken declared.

Noyes responded to the video, writing, “Thanks, boss. I totally agree. And thanks, @welcomecorps sponsors! You give us hope.”

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