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American Bishops Support of Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking (50+ articles)

(see Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale, Code of Cannon Law 212)

Below is a list of articles showing how the American Bishops and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) support illegal immigration and therefore human trafficking.

1. The Catholic Cartel – Complicit Clergy – 2/3/22 – powerful 17-minute video summary
2. America’s Catholic Bishops Get Rich Off Our Broken Borders – The Stream – 6/12/23
3. Why are Catholic Bishops Defending Illegal Immigration? They’re Bought? | Intellectual Takeout– 6/20/18
   • Our government doles out billions of dollars to organizations and charities that settle refugees and aid illegal immigrants. If our illegal immigration problem suddenly went away, then there would be no reason to fund groups such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, BCFS Health and Human Services (a Baptist group), Catholic Charities, or Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service.
   • Catholic Church collects $1.6 billion in U.S. contracts, grants since 2012 – Washington Times– 9/24/15
4. Illegal border crossers total over 10 million since Biden inauguration | National | thecentersquare.com – 10/27/23 – greater than the individual populations of 41 states.
5. The Bishops’ Misapplication of Catholic Charity on Our Southern Border (thefederalist.com) – 9/24/21
   • More than any other religious group, it is America’s Catholic bishops who lend moral support and cover to the current border situation.  How? Through their promotion to open borders — a strict adherence that warps God’s call to love our neighbors, and misunderstands the criminal situation at the border.  Any step the United States might take to enforce its immigration laws, the bishops oppose it — loudly and swiftly.
   • “The [USCCB] collected $50 million for migration and refugee services for the year 2020, most of which came from the federal government,” Lepanto Institute President Michael Hichborn told the news site Church Militant. “During that same period,” he added,” the U.S. bishops collected a meager $777,000 for pro-life activities.”
   • While we have an ordered call to charity, we don’t have a religious duty to have no nations, no laws, and no order.
   • God does not call us to violate just laws for charity, understanding we cannot extend good deeds to everyone on earth… no single teaching obscures the others to the detriment of the good; justice, charity, and mercy all must be weighed.  The Bishops have not paid proper heed to the harmful effects this charity without justice has had on the lives of the vulnerable.
   • The results of these mistakes are painful, are deadly, and are on our border every day and night. On this, there can be no confusion; it’s time for our church to recognize it.
6. Refusing to Address the Border Crisis is Immoral | Opinion (newsweek.com) – 1/25/23
7. How the Left Will Repay the Catholic Church on Immigration – American Thinker– 6/24/14
8. Extensive Analysis Reveals Bishops Bank Billions in Federal Immigration Funding (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/23
9. ‘Catholic Charities Has Engaged in Criminal Activity’ — Stew Peters | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)– 10/23/23
10. “Midnight At The Border” | Running on Truth | Episode 2 – YouTube– August, 2023 RFK Jr.
11. Cities Face Bankruptcy as Sanctuary Policies Trigger States of Emergency | EpochTV (theepochtimes.com)– 10/24/23 – NY, LA, Chicago, Wash. DC
12. Human Traffickers Posing as Catholic Charities (churchmilitant.com) – 10/19/23
13. Bishop blasts ‘false narrative’ behind Texas anti-immigrant policy | Crux (cruxnow.com) – 10/31/23
14. Congress to Investigate Catholic Charities? (churchmilitant.com) – 10/19/23
15. ‘Catholic Charities Has Engaged in Criminal Activity’ — Stew Peters | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 10/23/23
16. Watchdogs demand info from DHS, HHS on NGOs working along Texas border to aid illegal immigrants | Fox News– 2/9/22
17. Catholic Charities’ Role in the Border Crisis – Catholic Journal– July, 2021
18. Catholic Charities, Texas diocese under fire for transporting illegal migrants with Biden admin – lifesitenews.com– 2/18/22
19. The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration | Intellectual Takeout– 1/30/20
20. The Catholic Church and Immigration (churchmilitant.com) – Church Militant interviews Michelle Malkin
21. Illegal Immigrant Caravans and Criminal Catholics (townhall.com)– Michelle Malkin
    • Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party.
    • Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter’s Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover “27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations” for “housing, food and basic necessities,” as well as “migrant” assistance programs “run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas,” according to the Catholic News Service.
22. Catholic Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration in Texas – Complicit Clergy– 11/18/21
23. The Catholic Cartel – Bishops Making Millions in Trafficking Illegal Aliens – Complicit Clergy– 10/30/21
24. Immigration Cash Cow (churchmilitant.com)
25. Extensive Analysis Reveals Bishops Bank Billions In Federal Immigration Funding (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/23
26. Catholic NGOs Receive Billions in Government Funding to Provide Illegals Housing, Food, Healthcare, Financial Assistance and More (complicitclergy.com) – 12/31/22
27. Catholic NGOs Continue to Cash In (churchmilitant.com) – 8/28/23
28. Catholic groups fund illegals hopping the border: A travesty (wnd.com)– 2/11/22
29. Congress Must Defund Nonprofits Aiding Biden’s Open-Border Operations (dailysignal.com) – 5/2/23
30. Nun spearheading illegal alien invasion is really a dedicated revolutionary with elitist ties – World Tribune– 2/22/22
31. Taxpayer Money Facilitating Mass Migration (cis.org)– 2/24/22
32. Catholic Bishops Urge Biden: Hurry on Those Afghan Refugees – PJ Media – 8/18/21
33. Watch — Catholic Charities Coordinates Migrant Arrivals: They ‘Need Help’ (breitbart.com) – 4/18/22
34. Illegal immigration is a sin (chastitysf.com)
35. Who’s Really Facilitating America’s Border Crisis? Biden Isn’t Acting Alone (dailysignal.com) – 12/7/22
36. How feds use charities to hide the true cost of the US border crisis (nypost.com) – 12/21/22
37. Are U.S. Bishops Complicit in the Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Children? (complicitclergy.com) – 12/8/22
38. Liz Yore Calls Upon U.S. Bishops To Get Out of the Business of Trafficking Illegal Aliens (complicitclergy.com) – 12/10/22 – see numerous related posts
39. Is Catholic Charities Helping Turn America Blue? (complicitclergy.com) – 12/10/22 – The Heritage Foundation recently issued a shocking reporttracking cell phone data originating from non-governmental agencies helping to relocate illegal immigrates to various locations across our nation.
40. Government hides money for illegal immigration in charities (nypost.com) – 7/22/22
    • Law Firm Urges Court to ‘Protect’ Ministry From Texas Governor’s Order – The Tablet – 8/13/21
    • Catholic Charitiesand CARECENare funded largely by government contracts, not private donations.
    • The losers are taxpayers and Americans already here who need a helping hand, such as Jeffrey Harris, a 56-year-old vet living in one of the shelters. “If we can’t take care of the homeless here, how can we take immigrants,” he fumed.
    • Pols Hide Behind Charities to Welcome Illegals – The Stream – 7/29/22 – If you’re a taxpayer in New York, or anywhere in the U.S., you’re getting scammed by groups like United Way, Catholic Charities, and the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). You may think they’re charities. Truth is, these groups are hauling in millions in taxpayer dollars — your money — under government contracts to facilitate illegal immigration.
    • Migrants using Catholic Charities to avoid deportation: report | Just the News – 12/19/22
    • How feds use charities to hide the true cost of the US border crisis (nypost.com) – 12/21/22
41. Secular Media Stepping up to Expose the Corrupt Bishops (churchmilitant.com) – 8/22/23
42. They have failed to stop “Catholic” charitable organizations from funding organizations which are blatantly anti-Catholic.
43. The Case Against Catholic Relief Services – YouTube– 2/18/22
44. Catholic Relief Services Documents Promote Condom Use in Africa – The Lepanto Institute– 3/2/20
45. Michael Hichborn: What’s Going on with the USCCB? – YouTube– 6/27/17
46. Catholic Charities Scam | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)– 2/15/22
47. Lepanto Institute Responds to Bishop Chairman of Catholic Relief Services– 3/28/21
48. Heretical Association of Catholic Priests Supports Pro-LGBT Adoption Legislation– 4/15/21
49. Catholic-Funded Organizations and Networks Financially Tied to Massive Pro-Abortion Initiative – The Lepanto Institute (11/14/21)
50. Biden Admin Turns Blind Eye to Exploitive Migrant Child Labor – CatholicVote org – 3/7/23
51. More Taxpayer Funding for NGOs that Assist Illegal Aliens Amid Border Crisis | Federation for American Immigration Reform (fairus.org) – 8/25/23
52. The US Bishops’ Migrant Wealth Makes Boys and Girls Victims | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 9/14/23
53. A Reporter’s Searing Challenge of Episcopal Corruption | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 9/15/23 – World Tribune article: Leftist Catholic NGO fueling illegal alien invasion. Anti-globalist weekly articles by Joe Schaeffer. Catholic Charities funded primarily by the US Government.
54. Are the US Bishops Covering Up Child Exploitation Again? | The Christian Review – 9/9/23 – The USCCB must urgently re-assess its border policy and its denial of a link between open borders and child exploitation.
    • The Bishops objected to “initiatives [such as] . . . tripling of Border Patrol agents, especially at ports of entry, and the use of sophisticated technology such as ground sensors, surveillance cameras, heat-detecting scopes, and reinforced fencing.”

See also: Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples | USCCB.  Key Principles:

1. People have the right to migrate to sustain their lives and the lives of their families.
2. A country has the right to regulate its borders and to control immigration.
3. A country must regulate its borders with justice and mercy.

• • The Catholic Church teaches that every person has basic human rights and is entitled to have basic human needs met—food, shelter, clothing, education, and health care. (Freely offered or by mandate?  What limits?  What about the existing poor already in the country?)
  • Current immigration policy that criminalizes the mere attempt to immigrate and imprisons immigrants who have committed no crime or who have already served a just sentence for a crime is immoral.  (So, is it acceptable to break the laws associated with principle #2? Can we choose to break other laws?)
  • It is the position of the Catholic Church that pastoral, educational, medical, and social services provided by the Church are never conditioned on legal status. All persons are invited to participate in our parishes, attend our schools, and receive other services offered by our institutions and programs. (That’s all fine but what about the collateral damage caused by human trafficking, a direct result of the Catholic Church encouraging illegal immigration?)