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The December 3 documents, obtained by Judicial Watch, show BCFS, formerly known as Baptist Children and Family Services, was paid $182,129,786 in order to provide “basic shelter care” for 2,400 “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC) during a four month span.The budget included charges of $104,215,608 for the 1,200 UAC’s at a Fort Sill, Oklahoma center and another $77,914,178 for the 1,200 UACs at the Lackland Air Force Base shelter located in San Antonio, Texas. From June 12 to October 18, these figures equate to $86,846.34 for every illegal alien child housed at Ft. Sill and $64,928 per illegal alien child from May 18 to September 18 at the Lackland Air Force Base location. On top of this, $2,648,800 was given as compensation to members of the BCFS “Incident Management Team” — or $88,293 per person.
Other expenses at the Ft. Sill facility included hotel accommodations running a tab of $6,765,000, food costs of $75 per day for 3 meals and 2 snacks for each illegal alien child provided by a local catering service totaling $18,198,000, and $1,120,400 worth of medical supplies. Additionally, board games, soccer balls, basketballs, jump ropes, bracelet making kits, yarn, puzzles, arts and crafts, decks of cards, and eye-hand coordination game sets were provided at the cost of $180,000. Educational items — including tempera paint, paint markers, paint brushes, easel brushes, art paper and multicultural crayons — were $180,000. The children were also provided laptops for $200,000 and cell phones costing $160,000.
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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said it’s outrageous the Obama administration would provide illegal alien children with such luxurious items that many Americans could not even purchase.
“It is outrageous that the Obama administration spent nearly $200 million of taxpayer funds to provide illegal alien children with the types of extravagant high-tech equipment and lavish benefits many American families cannot even afford for their own children,” Fitton said.
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“In the late afternoon of July 9, Air Force One touched down at Love Field in Dallas. President Barack Obama ducked into a private room at the airport for a discussion about the crisis of undocumented children crossing the southwest border. Assembled around a wooden table were top Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, as well as the leaders of several faith-based charities. One of them was a man so anonymous, the White House pool report misspelled his name,” TIME wrote of the meeting.
The “anonymous” man TIME spoke of was Kevin Dinnin, CEO of BCFS — the group given over $460 million in awards to house the unaccompanied alien children since the beginning of FY 2013. Just two days before Obama’s visit, on July 7, another grant was bestowed upon BCFS in the amount of $190,707,50.
Housing UAC’s proves to be a lucrative business for Dinnin, as he’s pulled in $450,000 in compensation in 2012 with four others making at least $200,000.
http://capitolcityproject.com/obamas-hhs-paid-baptist-charity-182129786-house-illegal-alien-children-four-months/
Obama’s HHS paid one organization over $280 million to house illegal alien children in 2014
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars has been shelled out to the lucrative business of housing unaccompanied alien children
Joe Schoffstall
December 09, 2014
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