Feds Gave Catholic Charities Almost $800 Million That Helped Shelter, Transport Biden’s Migrants into U.S. Communities August 21 2024
Congress and President Joe Biden’s government have reportedly paid the Texas arm of Catholic Charities USA $769 million since 2021 to help deliver a huge population of poor migrants into U.S. communities, workplaces, and housing.
“Catholic Charities has a history of prioritizing the needs of migrants over those of Americans,” said Sheena Rodriguez, the president of Alliance for a Safe Texas, which champions border security and anti-trafficking programs. “I’ve spoken with numerous homeless Americans who claimed they were forced out of [a Catholic Charities] shelter in the dead of night to accommodate the influx of illegal migrants,” she told Breitbart News.
On August 16, she reported:
Obligated prime grant awards for Catholic Charities locations in Texas amount to $769,192,082.35 (often contractual amounts), of which $450,462,304.35 is reported as outlayed (actual funds paid out so far).
The funding helped shelter and transport many migrants from the border region to U.S. communities and workplaces. The funding was only a small part of President Joe Biden’s catch-and-release welcome for roughly 10 million legal, illegal, and quasi-legal migrants from 2021 to 2024.
Catholic leaders are defending Catholic Charities’ participation in the government’s migration-based economic strategy which divides many foreign families, kills many migrants, cuts Americans’ wages, drives up housing costs, expands U.S. poverty, and reduces the incentive for U.S. trade with developing countries.
The catch-and-release network of shelters and buses also brings criminals into many U.S. communities.
The group’s “disregard for the plight of our own citizens is a cause for concern,” Rodriguez told Breitbart News.
The sad truth, NGOs like Catholic Charities receive far more federal money for the care of illegal migrants, which fosters blatant discrimination against American citizens.
As a pro-life advocate and former crisis pregnancy center volunteer counselor, I remain thankful for the faithful in the Catholic Church, which is historically a staunch advocate for life. However, Catholic Charities turns a blind eye to the devastating number of abortions pushed on the unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors and abused migrant women flooding into the U.S. on the taxpayer dime.
Catholic Charities also continues to work alongside other organizations such as the IOM [International Organization for Migration] and the UNICEF that are publicly anti-life. Catholic Charities claims to recognize a country’s right to sovereign borders, yet lobbyists for Catholic Charities and the USCCB advocate against border security legislation on the state and federal levels. Catholic Charities and the USCCB have deceived Catholics and continue to use their charitable donations and billions of taxpayer dollars to actively work against the true beliefs of Catholicism.
Catholic Charities USA is legally independent of the Catholic Church, but church leaders vigorously defend its role in the unpopular transfer of migrants into Americans’ society. “I am honored to receive criticism and to be maligned for the defense of the immigrant,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said in December 2023.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is defending Catholic Charities’ role in the federal government’s strategy of extracting migrant workers, consumers, and renters from poor countries to help inflate the scale and value of the U.S. consumer economy:
Since 2019, the federal government has provided funding to support the humanitarian aid offered by nonprofit organizations to migrants, given increased needs along the U.S.-Mexico border and in the interior of the United States. Some Catholic organizations have applied for and received this funding, just as some receive public funding for their disaster relief efforts, to enhance the security of their facilities, to address homelessness, and for other legitimate ends. They do not profit from this type of funding, which can only be used for prescribed purposes.
“Catholics are compelled by Sacred Scripture and Church doctrine to recognize all as brothers and sisters and serve them accordingly,” the statement said.
The group’s press secretary did not return calls from Breitbart News.
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