Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani has asked for an audit of a migrant shelter program that was used by Pima County until recently.
Ciscomani asked the Office of Inspector General to investigate the use of nearly $22 million paid out to Pima County for Casa Alitas. That’s the Catholic Community Services program that handled housing asylum seekers for more than five years before the program shuttered this summer.
Ciscomani’s allegations lean on local reporting that found overpaid vendors, family members hired for vendor contracts, and the misuse of nearly $200,000.
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The ruling comes a day after news broke of the government’s plan to offer legal aid to detained immigrant children through a $150 million contract Burke Law Group — a small Texas-based firm with a co-founder who is a former Trump appointee. -
A notice posted on the Federal Register this week details a $150 million government contract with Burke Law Group to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. A multimillion-dollar contact with nonprofits across the country to do the work expired Friday. -
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help people during disasters like floods and fires. But a new report finds the Trump administration diverted FEMA staff at key times to do something very different — help ICE in immigration enforcement. -
The DACA program turned 14 this year. The Obama-era initiative is supposed to give some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation. But community members say that’s no longer the case under President Donald Trump. -
Some 20,000 children alone in the US receive legal aid through the contract — part of a federal program established by Congress almost two decades ago. The contract to do that work expires July 31.
