Following is a summary of this Breitbart article by John Binder:
49 House and Senate Republicans voted for and passed a $6.4 Billion Democrat bill for welfare, driver’s licenses, housing costs, and more for 95,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. by Joe Biden. The Republican lawmakers voted for the provisions despite overwhelming opposition to the Afghan resettlement by their constituents.
The funding for the resettlement operation was slipped into a government funding bill, and it will give benefits such as welfare, housing assistance, medical coverage, and state-issued drivers licenses to the Afghans.
The provision giving the IDs and driver’s licenses allow Afghans to skirt vital national security requirements that were put in place after the 9/11 attacks, according to the expert Andrew Arthur:
I will leave it up to others to decide whether giving massive amounts of cash to aliens who have no real status in the United States is a good idea or not. My main concern is the fact the [funding bill] makes paroled Afghan nationals eligible for driver’s licenses and identification cards, even if they are barred from receiving them under a law passed to protect the American people against national-security risks.
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Section 202(b)(2)(C) of the REAL ID Act requires states to ensure that applicants for driver’s licenses have lawful status in the United States (including citizenship or a green card). Section 2502 in the [funding bill] would explicitly waive that requirement — not for you, or for those green card holders — but rather exclusively for paroled Afghan nationals.
Most disturbingly, the bill leaves Biden’s resettlement operation wide open for future waves of Afghans brought to the U.S. by extending such resettlement to September 2022 and beyond for the foreign relatives of Afghans who get resettled in American communities.
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), who voted against the bill, said the provisions “opens the U.S. to unlimited refugee resettlement from Afghanistan with zero vetting, putting our security at even greater risk.”
The 34 House Republicans who voted for the bill are as follows:
Mark Amodei (R-NV)
Tom Cole (R-OK)
Rodney Davis (R-IL)
Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Andrew Garbarino (R-NY)
Carlos Giménez (R-FL)
Tony Gonzalez (R-TX)
Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)
Garrett Graves (R-LA)
Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)
Clay Higgins (R-LA)
John Katko (R-NY)
Young Kim (R-CA)
Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
Julia Letlow (R-LA)
Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Peter Meijer (R-MI)
Blake Moore (R-UT)
Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
Tom Reed (R-NY)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
Hal Rogers (R-KY)
Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL)
Mike Simpson (R-ID)
Chris Smith (R-NJ)
Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
Mike Turner (R-OH)
Fred Upton (R-MI)
David Valadao (R-CA)
Don Young (R-AK)
The 15 Senate Republicans who voted for the funding bill are as follows:
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John Kennedy (R-LA)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Mike Rounds (R-SD)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Todd Young (R-IN)
Refugee contractors will be given $1.7 billion to “provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services, including wrap-around services during temporary housing and after resettlement, housing assistance, medical assistance, legal assistance, and case management assistance.”
“Refugee” resettlement costs taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years. Over the course of a lifetime, taxpayers each pay about $133,000 per refugee.
[The “Refugee Resettlement Program” is actually mostly a “Muslim resettlement program,” where the people brought are usually not even actually refugees but rather they are simply migrants who are selected by a corrupt UN program, where they are chosen instead of more legitimate refugees such as Christians and others who are persecuted by Muslims.
Also the program is not intended to “rescue Muslims from Islam,” but rather its purpose is to secretively disperse Islamic “seed communities” throughout the U.S. with all of the backwards and dangerous aspects of their culture intact.
The program was initially set up by Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy during the Carter Administration in 1980.]