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I mean, some of the most, I would say, detailed.

Media investigative work that has also spawned some phenomenal investigations by Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire, Parker Thayer of the Capital Research Center.

Phenomenal stuff investigating fraud across this country.

Here was the president on Nick Shirley today.

Hello, I'm Michael Watson, joined by Tiffany Gabbay, and this is Capital Research Center's Who Funds That podcast.

It seems like everywhere you look around the world, political extremism informs Islamist, radical right, or ultra-nationalist, and radical left or neo-communist is on the rise.

Why is this so, and what can be done about it? At Capital Research Center, we're debuting a new program, the Counter-Extremism Research Center, to track and expose the forces promoting, funding, and engaging in extremist activity.

Leading that project and joining us today to discuss the rise of extremism and his work for Capital Research Center is Sean Durns, who will direct the Counter-Extremism Research Center.

Sean, welcome both to the podcast and to CRC.

Thanks, Mike.

That might sound grandiose, but it's not.

Tiffany, any final thoughts?

This is a direct quote.

From Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center, quote, this is a very big pile of government money, and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it.

He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement program alone is in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

He noted that since 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.

Because it's not there.

Why are we handing out money, government taxpayer money, to NGOs to bring in people from another country into our country? Why? How is that happening? How is that happening? Parker Thayer, who is an immigration expert at the Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C., told the New York Post, where this originally came from, that this is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it.

Thayer said that the money flowing into immigrant programs in Minneapolis is in the hundreds of millions.

He says, since 2021, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been given over $140 million in federal resettlement contracts.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid land of 10,000 lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.

And I quote, "This is a very big pile of government money, and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it," said Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, and he said that to The Post.

The state first became a test ground for Vietnam-era resettlement programs with powerful advocacy from the, from then vice presidential, uh, Vice President Walter Mondale and Minnesota's Democratic Governor Al, Al Quie, Quay, I don't know, uh, according to local historians.

Mondale, a Democrat from Minnesota who served as President Jimmy Carter's veep, traveled with Quie to Asia to visit refugee camps and came back describing the horrid conditions they saw.

That's a group-- that's a guy named Thayer, Parker Thayer.

He's an immigration expert at the DC-based Capital Research Center, which is a group we quote quite a bit, actually.

I, I was on their website a couple times this week because they have great work.

I think I quote them in a couple different books.

They've opposed nuclear energy.

They celebrated that they got a nuclear plant shut down, plans for a plant shut down in South Africa, where, like, according to the Capital Research Center, yeah, South Africa...

They've got nearly 8 million South Africans without basic access to electricity.

So, good job shutting down energy for millions of people who don't have it.