Homeland Security Secretary Can’t Say If Illegal Aliens Will Get Stimulus Money
Friday, April 10, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer


Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano presents a check for $100,000,000 to Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of the United Way of America. The money is part of the economis stimulus package and is supposed to be used to help people in need of food and shelter across the country. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com.)
(CNSNews.com) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday could not say whether $100-million in additional funding for a program that helps hungry and homeless people throughout the United States would be used to provide services to people who are in the country illegally.

The Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), which is receiving $100 million in stimulus funds, is a nationwide social service program created by Congress in 1983.

"These monies get distributed to the Salvation Army, they get distributed to the Red Cross, they get distributed to various churches and faith-based organizations that provide services -- and so those are where the dollars go,â€