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Vigilante Group Our Rescue Gets $158M for Migrant Kids

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If you had 'Hollywood-style sting op charity gets nine figures in taxpayer cash' on your bingo card, go collect your prize.

The federal government just handed a $158 million contract to Our Rescue, the controversial Utah organization previously known as Operation Underground Railroad.

Their new job? Representing unaccompanied immigrant children who arrive in the country.

If the name sounds familiar, the group was founded by Tim Ballard, the activist whose high-drama trafficking stings inspired the hit movie Sound of Freedom. For years, the group made its name running flashy, camera-ready operations and touting dramatic rescues with law enforcement.

Taxpayer dollars have funded some pretty wild pivots before, but handing a massive youth protection contract to an outfit built on cinematic sting ops is certainly a choice.

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  1. Loud Trucker
    wait the sound of freedom guys???
    +1 jokeAsking if it is the movie guys is a real intellectual heavyweight move, truly
  2. Overworked Sheriff
    158 million dollars of our taxes going to a group whose whole brand is cinematic raids. what could possibly go wrong
    +2 emotionalNothing says fiscal responsibility like funding cinematic vigilantes with public money, a classic recipe for disaster
  3. Overcaffeinated Possum
    Gotta see how this contract is audited because transitioning from vigilante ops to federal youth services is an insane leap.
    +5 solidFinally, someone points out that turning action heroes into social workers is a bureaucratic fever dream