An official within the Department of Education was recently exposed in undercover footage obtained by Project Veritas, revealing the department is running a rogue “sanctuary program” for illegal immigrants. The comments were made by Travis Combs, a branch chief at the Department of Education.
According to the footage, Combs claimed if Congress was aware the department did not have citizenship requirements for where federal spending was being allocated, “there would be a lot of uproar.” Furthermore, Combs suggested individuals within the organization “just hide” information from DOGE employees.
“If Congress actually knew that we don’t have [citizenship requirements] … there would be a lot of uproar,” Combs said during part of the conversation. “We would be like position of like being a sanctuary, like sanctuary cities. We would be like a sanctuary program where we’re spending federal dollars on illegal immigrants.”
Speaking about DOGE, Combs said, “Like they shut off everyone’s access to everything. They’re like in the building looking through everything. I’m telling you, it is insanity.” He added, “It’s like democracy falling should be like the title of the movie. I mean, if you want to have a conversation with somebody, you do have to take it offline, but you’re not posting.”
The DOE employee further claimed that employees now take their conversations offline or over encrypted messengers such as Signal. “Watch the footage below:So that’s it’s just like a text messaging app, like a WhatsApp, but it’s encrypted,” he said, describing the platform.
When asked if illegal immigrants can participate in education programs, Combs said, “They can, as long as they like, follow the process. So, like, if they’re a DACA recipient, then they have to follow, like, the rules for DACA. But if they’re illegal, illegal, it’s gonna be pretty hard.”
He continued, “The one nice thing about the program that I work in, it’s like, we don’t ask status, and we’ve, like, been able to keep that out of our federal statute. So we don’t ask them, when they enroll, what their status is.”
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The undercover interviewer then questioned how they get away with this legally despite efforts from Congress to change laws. “People try to push through that. You have to do that. It’s like the Congress is trying to push through laws,” he said. Combs responded, “Yeah, but then we block it.” The official was then asked, “So you don’t have to reach across party lines for that?”
Combs suggested that they just “hide it in the law” or “hide it in the bill.” He added, “When they mark up a bill, they only read sections of it…so if you can squeeze something in there somewhere, do that…and then they only read the part they want to know about. They don’t read the whole bill.”
Watch the footage below:
Note: The featured image is a screenshot from the embedded video.