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Housing nonprofit Family Endeavors will be awarded a contract worth up to $530 million despite having no previous history as an ICE contractor.
Housing nonprofit Family Endeavors will be awarded a contract worth up to $530 million despite having no previous history as an ICE contractor. Dario Lopez-Mills - Pool/Getty Images
A Central American woman and her son cross the Rio Grande at the Texas United States crossing in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico on February, 8, 2021.
A Central American woman and her son cross the Rio Grande at the Texas United States crossing in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico on February, 8, 2021. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
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Migrant children watch TV inside a playpen at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021.
Migrant children watch TV inside a playpen at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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The federal government awarded a contract worth up to $530 million to a housing nonprofit that recently hired a Biden transition team official, according to a report on Tuesday.

The Administration for Children and Families contracted Family Endeavors in March to help manage the influx of migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border, Axios reported.

The Texas-based organization snagged the no-bid contract just months after it tapped Andrew Lorenzen-Strait as its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs, the report said.

He was previously an adviser to the Biden-Harris transition team on Department of Homeland Security policy and staffing matters. He’s also a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official.

ICE, an agency of DHS, recently awarded the group an $87 million no-bid contract to house migrant families in hotels in Texas and Arizona, the Washington Examiner reported last week.

Family Endeavors has no previous history as an ICE contractor. It also never previously won a prime contract from HHS, but did work with another of the agency’s vendors in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2019, according to Axios.

The ACF contract is to provide “emergency intake” and “wrap-around care” at a temporary migrant facility in Pecos, Tx., the report said.


  Housing nonprofit Family Endeavors recently hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former adviser to the Biden-Harris transition team. Endeavors Housing nonprofit Family Endeavors recently hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former adviser to the Biden-Harris transition team. Endeavors

It could potentially be worth more than 12 times the organization’s latest reported budget of $43 million.

In a statement to Axios, Family Endeavors said its contracting work is “a continuation of services we have delivered to the migrant population since 2012.”

ACF didn’t return a request for comment from the website.

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