Savannah Hulsey Pointer, FISM News
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending more than $500 million on security upgrades for nonprofits “at high risk of terrorist attack,” including dozens of Islamic centers, a leftist La Raza organization, and a country music museum.
The DHS grants have also gone to organizations that support LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, an American Indian museum, an old west museum, a congregationalist seminary in American Samoa, several zoos, a New Hampshire ambulance service, and a museum dedicated to a well-known blues musician, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.
The federal agency — established after Sept. 11, 2001, to keep America safe from terrorism — designated recipients that also included dozens of Islamic centers, a leftist La Raza organization, and a country music museum.
Republicans, including Senator Dan Sullivan (Ala.), recently attempted to force DHS to reallocate another $500 million, which the agency is using to bolster “environmental programs,” to secure the southern border and stop terrorists and lethal drugs from entering the country.
Every Senate Democrat voted against my amendment to recommit $500 million in DHS money from "environmental programs" to securing our border—DHS's primary mission.
Once again, they've turned a blind eye to the humanitarian & national security crises raging at our southern border. pic.twitter.com/b5yugYgtHD
— Sen. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) August 7, 2022
The DHS lists the $500 million as part of its Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which has a stated mission to “support target hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — an agency of DHS that lists helping people before, during, and after disasters as its mission statement — is responsible for disbursing the non-profit security funds.
Judicial Watch received the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with DHS for the specified materials.
In addition to their other funding efforts, millions from DHS’s budget have been distributed as grants to promote media literacy and combat what the Biden administration is considering to be “disinformation.”
According to Judicial Watch,
Among the recipients of the grants awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a center founded by former President Jimmy Carter to implement a ‘media literacy curriculum’ designed to mitigate the harms presented by ‘disinformation.’ In all, DHS will dole out around $7 million for its new media literacy campaign, which is part of a broader and handsomely funded initiative called Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program (TVTP) launched in 2020 to ‘prevent targeted violence and terrorism.’
During the Obama administration, a similar issue took place when an Islamic Center and abortion clinic received $19 million in order “to give the groups the necessary resources to improve security and make them less susceptible to an attack. The DHS calls it ‘target hardening activities.’”