A Fox News journalist is moonlighting as a board member for a pro-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) charity, raising concerns about objectivity in her coverage of the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border.
Aishah Hasnie, the network’s congressional correspondent, serves on the board of the non-profit organization ‘USA for UNHCR’ which is closely linked to the UNHCR itself – the United Nations agency tasked with aiding so-called refugees.
Based in Washington, D.C. and established in 1989, USA for UNHCR purports to work “…with refugees from their greatest time of need – from emergency or crisis and beyond through the months and likely years that many are displaced from their home countries.”
The charity’s financial disclosures reveal that it primarily acts as a fundraising vehicle for the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees itself. In 2022, USA for UNHCR reported just over $234 million in revenue, with $182 million passed on as grants to the United Nations. The charity’s website even blurs the lines between their organization and the official U.N. refugee agency, listing U.N. efforts as if they were their own, and even replicating their logo.
Billionaire globalist Rupert Murdoch – who recently stepped down as chairman of Fox News’s parent company – has long been an advocate of loose restrictions on immigration. Over the years he has urged U.S. lawmakers to end special visa quotas and enact a pathway to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally.
Pakistan-born Hasnie joined Fox News in 2019 and was named as the network’s congressional correspondent in August of 2021. She joined the board of USA for UNHCR on December 20th, 2021. In an interview in late 2021, Hasnie described herself as “a deeply faithful person. I’m Muslim, and I pray five times a day.”
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