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NEW YORK POST: Taxpayers paying the price for Joe Biden’s migrant rhetoric
By undoing the successes of his predecessor, the US president has created chaos on the Mexican border
19 May 2021 - 14:36
The White House has been trying to downplay the crisis at the Mexican border, yet the situation is now so bad that Team Biden is actually diverting $2bn in Covid funds there.
That’s right: the money will go for shelters for the 45,000 unaccompanied migrant children who have crossed the border in 2021. It includes $850m for the department of health & human services that was meant for testing, taken from President Joe Biden’s $1.9-trillion virus relief bill...
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