The program to provide $25,000 give-aways to illegal immigrants is TECHNICALLY run by a private NGO - a Non-Governmental Organization. One that operates under the same IRS rules and structure as charitable organizations.
With government grants - something that most people believe is going to help LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS. Paid for by AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, presumably for the benefit of other American Citizens, temporarily down on their luck.
Ha! As If!
This is the reality of MANY, if not MOST, of the Leftist organizations in this country. They put themselves out there in their public press releases as these organizations that use donations - simply out of the goodness of the donors’ hearts - to provide services that Mean Old White Republicans will not. Because they just hate Non-White People/People of Color/The Alphabet Soup of Victims.
NOT because the Taxpayers are tired of having governments - local, state, and federal - take their hard-earned/saved money by force to transfer to people who have NO right to receive government services/benefits.
Which is primarily done to ensure that said Non-Citizens will support - with street protests, support for politicians who facilitate their theft from US citizen taxpayers, and, if possible, their illegal votes for Dems.
Many, if not MOST, of these Leftist NGOs are set up, not for donations by individuals, but to grab money from the US taxpayers, in the form of grants. Most of those grants were originally intended for citizens, but the administrative state has stretched the definition of Legally Present to include those who deliberately crossed US borders/overstayed their visitor’s visas, and make them fully eligible for ALL services/benefits provided by government.
Think I’m kidding or deluded?
I first ran across the use of very carefully worded statements by government officials or their representatives in Cleveland Municipal Schools. One day, we had the lawyer for the school board come in to tout their AMAZING progress in supporting teachers. This was at a faculty meeting which we were required to attend.
The lawyer said that ALL of the teacher positions were now held by ‘Fully Certificated Teachers’.
Well, I knew that to be a complete crock of shit. In my own building alone, 4 of the positions were held by substitute teachers, and had been for years.
So, I raised my hand, and stated as much.
She replied, ALL of the teacher positions were now held by ‘Fully Certificated Teachers’.
I replied, but they are SUBS, not Certified Teachers.
She repeated her statement. I continued, asking, “Are you saying that Substitute Teachers are “Fully Certificated Teachers?”
She doggedly repeated her statement.
At that point, I gave up in disgust.
By lawyerly efforts, the common use of the term, Fully Certificated Teachers, had been ‘designated’ to include Subs. And, as far as the board was concerned, that was that.
Our Union, The Cleveland Teachers Union, was, and is, a complete waste of teachers’ dues. They completed caved to this distortion of contract terms. About all they were good for was the end of the year party in The Flats. It included free food and two drinks per member. You could always count on the K-8 teachers to get rowdy - to be fair, many of them were in nearly all-female environments in the schools. Only the principals - some of them - the janitors, and the athletic staff were male, with a few exceptions.
So, I was well aware that interpretations of wording is even more important than the actual law. And, Praise God! - that is what the Chevron decision upended. For a fuller explanation of that decision, go here.