DHS Uses Taxpayer Money to Fund Texas Billboards Countering Immigration Enforcement Efforts

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using taxpayer money to erect billboards in Texas, offering help to those with friends and family in immigration custody.

A DHS source provided a photo of one of the billboards along an interstate in Texas, which reads, “Your brother in immigration custody has rights. We’re here to help.”

The ads are part of a campaign by the DHS’s Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (IDO), an independent office within DHS that assists individuals with complaints about potential violation of immigration detention standards {snip}

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Sources, including from the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, told Fox News’ Bill Melugin they are furious about the ads, especially since their agencies are already working with limited funding and resources.

Yet, DHS spends money on billboards that the same sources say work against them and are “insulting.”

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Representatives from Texas turned to social media to express concerns about the signs.

“The news that DHS is using taxpayer money to launch billboards advocating ‘rights’ for individuals in ‘immigration custody’ should be alarming because it’s a preview of the legal arguments that radical progressive democrats will use to argue against deportation of the millions dumped in America by Biden-Harris-Mayorkas,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said on X. “Congress should NOT be funding propaganda to undermine our own laws. {snip}”

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