Washington state used hundreds of millions of federal COVID relief funds to provide giveaways to the state's illegal immigrant population, a new report has concluded. 

In April 2021, the state legislature approved $340 million in funding as part of the Immigrant Relief Fund that, according to its annual report, was designed to provide "targeted community engagement, communications development efforts, and trusted messengers to encourage eligible community members to apply."

However, what has only just emerged was that the money for that program came from the federally approved American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which provided $350 billion for local governments “to support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency.”

The Economic Policy Innovation Center explained in its latest report: 

Now, EPIC has discovered that the Biden Administration approved $340 million in SLFRF money for cash payments to “undocumented” immigrants in Washington State. 

Americans’ COVID relief money was used to send $1,000 checks to immigrants unlawfully residing in the State of Washington.

According to Treasury’s own data, the Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund “[p]rovides a one-time cash grant to of [sic] $1,000 for each resident of Washington who are at least 18 years of age and are ineligible to receive federal economic impact payments or unemployment insurance benefits due to their immigration status.”

The report found that federal funds were therefore used to fund $1,000 cash giveaways to illegal aliens who had crossed the southern border and set up shop in the state of Washington: 

The $340 million project is categorized as a “cash transfer” expenditure under the SLFRF, approved for the State of Washington. This means the Biden Administration directly subsidized “undocumented” immigration under the guise of COVID-19 pandemic relief.

The Washington COVID-19 Immigrant Relief Fund has stopped taking applications, indicating that the project fund is fully exhausted.

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Thus, the Biden Administration is directly subsidizing undocumented immigration while simultaneously claiming the checks do not count in determining if a recipient is dependent on the government and thus a public charge and ineligible for permanent residence.

Unfortunately, EPIC also found that Washington was far from the only state misappropriating huge amounts of money for illicit purposes. Millions of dollars were also wasted by local governments in Texas, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Illinois, and the District of Columbia on illegal immigrant populations. 

"While the Biden Administration continues to hit a record number of encounters along the southern border, EPIC has uncovered a pattern of SLFRF projects approved by the Treasury Department related to undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers," the report notes. 

These funds were used for everything from citizenship applications and transportation all the way through to art, music, and dance classes.

The only good news found in the report is that EPIC claims to have found $102 billion that could potentially be clawed back by Congress, although it remains to be seen whether they will follow through on this proposal. 

The revelations underscore the shocking amounts of money being spent across the U.S.propping up the seemingly never-ending flow of illegal immigrants entering the country on a daily basis.

According to some estimates, at least 10 million people have unlawfully entered the U.S. since Joe Biden took office in 2021, nearly all of whom will be costing the average American considerable amounts of tax dollars.