President Trump announced that he was going to enforce our immigration laws and not allow the border-crashing criminals to get away with their crimes. Imagine that! The president of the United States actually fulfilling his constitutionally-appointed duties. However, progressive organizations carrying the name "Catholic" in their names understand that their incomes will dry up in the process. To be specific, they will be expelled from the Federal teats (that is, our tax dollars) since "immigration processing" is a major reason for them receiving Federal grants.
Faithful Catholics have documented many times how Catholic Charities branches, particularly those located near the southern border, receive billions of federal dollars (that originate as withholdings from our paychecks). That link details other evils committed by Catholic Charities over the years: needle exchange programs, driving young girls to abortion appointments, trafficking of children.
Well, Catholic Charities got wind of the newly-invigorated enforcement, as ICE and other agencies started snatching up illegals for deportation. They released the video below, showing that they are entirely complicit in the de facto breaking and entering that these guys (and yes, it's mostly young males) have been doing, all on the federal (i.e., your) dime. Observe. A little translation: this woman says "undocumented"; that means "here illegally". I doubt that she would call a burglar breaking into her home "an undocumented house guest".
So here you have it - a Catholic organization telling criminals how to evade the law. President Trump was having none of that. He made clear that any such organization who aided and abetted criminals could not reasonably expect the government to fund them. Catholic Charities was literally slapping the hand that fed them and they expected that hand to keep on doling out the cash. Had that hand been Biden's, that might have happened.. Wait! Scratch that! Biden would never have started to enforce the border at all!
Right on cue, the Maryland Catholic Conference ordered the parishes to email all their parishioners some very disingenuous blather regarding immigration. The text is on their site. You will notice immediately that there is no distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration. The lack of distinction is so egregious that we can call it deliberate deception - a lie.
President Trump, to his immense credit, announced the defunding of not only Catholic Charities, but any NGO that facilitated the breaking of immigration law. Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, mentioned Catholic Charities by name when queried by a reporter about the matter. This screen shot from a Facebook page lists some others.
It says that Catholic Charities will soon be bankrupt. Perhaps the creator of that meme was simply being facetious, but we all know that a significant part of Catholic Charities' budget does come from federal grants. In-pew collections? Well, they haven't received a penny from me in several decades, and I cannot imagine one informed and decent purpose funding their mischief. If Catholic Charities does go bankrupt, all I will say is "good riddance".
