US gives UN refugee program more than a half billion dollars in recent months

The largest recent cash installment was announced last week (LOL! a month after an audit revealed massive waste and fraud in the program).

From the US Mission to the UN:

The United States is pleased to announce a second contribution of $482.05 million toward the 2012 operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).  The United States’ initial contribution of $125 million was announced on December 29, 2011 along with subsequent funding of $28.2 million toward emergency appeals this fiscal year for vulnerable populations from Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, and Mali.  These contributions are funded through the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, and help advance UNHCR initiatives worldwide.

There is more, read on.

I guess the funding wasn’t “imperiled” by that devastating audit after all.  Maddening isn’t it!  The UNHCR gets paid big bucks by you (the taxpayer), wastes a lot of money, and on top of it all they get to pick the refugees coming to your “welcoming” towns.

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