WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green (R-TN), Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS), and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Josh Brecheen (R-OK) announced a full committee hearing for next Wednesday, July 16, 2025, to examine how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) helped facilitate and benefited from the historic Biden-Harris border crisis, as well as how far-left NGOs are still working to help inadmissible aliens undermine federal immigration law under the Trump administration. 

Next week’s hearing is part of a years-long investigation by the Committee into whether NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity during the Biden-Harris administration.

“Over the last four years, the Biden-Harris administration’s catch-and-release policies allowed more than 13 million poorly-vetted, inadmissible aliens to cross our borders. Many of these inadmissible aliens were then released to a vast network of NGOs, often at or near the border, that provided legal services, transportation, and more, helping complete the human smuggling chain begun by the cartels outside our borders. These NGOs were handsomely rewarded with billions in taxpayer funds for their assistance,”Chairmen Green, Guest, and Brecheen said upon announcing the hearing. “This incentivizing and facilitating illegal entry, on Americans’ dime, supercharged the business model of criminal cartels and contributed to millions of people choosing to make the dangerous journey to our borders. As far-left activists and NGOs now work to disrupt President Trump’s vital immigration enforcement in cities like Los Angeles, we must hold these NGOs accountable for their activity under the previous administration and ensure these radical groups never again line their pockets by undermining our nation’s laws and our law enforcement.”
 
DETAILS:

What: A House Committee on Homeland Security hearing entitled, “An Inside Job: How NGOs Facilitated the Biden Border Crisis.”

When: Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 10:00 AM ET 

Where: 310 Cannon House Office Building  

WITNESSES:

Mike Howell
President, The Oversight Project

Ali Hopper
President and Founder, GUARD Against Trafficking

Julio Rosas
National Correspondent, Blaze Media

Witnesses and testimony will be added here. The hearing will be livestreamed on YouTube and will be opened to the public and the press. Press must be congressionally credentialed and should RSVP in advance.

BACKGROUND:

The Committee’s Phase One report into the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis, published in July 2023, found that from the early days of the crisis in 2021 to the end of the Biden-Harris administration, DHS released inadmissible aliens to a vast network of NGOs who provided services, support, and logistics. 

Last month, Chairmen Green and Brecheen sent letters to more than 200 NGOs requesting information on this activity, and the Committee is currently examining productions provided in response to the letters. Most recently, one recipient of the letter, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), has been linked to the far-left, anti-law enforcement riots in Los Angeles. Another recipient of the letter, Southwest Key Programs, received more than $3 billion under the previous administration to provide services, including the transportation and housing of unaccompanied alien children. Read the full letter to CHIRLA here.

In April, Chairmen Green and Brecheen also sent a letter to the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) in response to a video reportedly showing employees of the NGO––which has been awarded over $1 million in taxpayer funding since 2022—advising illegal aliens on how to evade apprehension by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The NGO has allegedly received funding from Chinese government-backed entities that are linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to recent reports. 

In March, the Chairmen were joined by Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology Chairman Dale Strong (R-AL) in sending letters to the mayors of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, investigating whether federal funds obligated or distributed under the Shelter and Services Program (SSP) were given to entities engaged in or facilitating illegal activities during the Biden border crisis. 

In October 2023, Chairman Green and then-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Dan Bishop sent two letters documenting the Committee’s deepening investigation into suspicious contracts awarded by ICE that were facilitated by ICE official Claire Trickler-McNulty and her former colleague, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait.  

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