Texas nonprofit housing migrant kids took $3B in grants from Biden admin and boosted executive salaries up to 139% before Trump pulled plug

WASHINGTON — The biggest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children nabbed billions of dollars in grants from the Biden administration — and used the massive windfall to boost and even double some executives’ salaries, according to tax filings and records exclusively obtained by The Post.Southwest Key Programs pulled down roughly $3 billion in federal taxpayer funds between fiscal years 2021 and 2024, according to data compiled by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to help shelter and place migrant kids with US sponsors as border crossings hit an all-time high under President Joe Biden.Over roughly the same period, the Austin, Texas-based nonprofit’s higher-ups also raked in much higher take-home pay — with the group’s president disclosing a whopping 139% increase, per the latest tax filings.At the same time, Southwest Key was hit with investigations — and a federal lawsuit — that alleged some migrant kids in its care were sexually abused by employees or else handed over to traffickers.Anselmo Villarreal, who became the group’s president and CEO in February 2021, was paid $491,642 over the course of that first fiscal year — but saw his compensation skyrocket to $1,174,551 by fiscal year 2023.Other Southwest Key executives — including chief human resources official Jose Arroyo Davila and its chief information officer Andy Harper — saw their salaries doubled, to the $600,000 range.Eric Marin, the organization’s CFO, earned $349,232 in fiscal year 2021, but his successor, Roberto Flores, took down $583,139 two years later.Another good earner, Geraldo Rivera, the senior VP of immigration services and later chief program officer, surged from $312,791 to $555,998 the year before Biden left office.According to additional internal payment records obtained by The Post, those executives and a dozen other top employees at Southwest Key recorded those six-figure salary surges during the first two years of the Biden administr...