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Obama Gives ‘Baptist’ Group $190 Million To Build Illegal Immigrant Resorts & Offices in Six Cities
The Gateway Pundit ^ | July 16 2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 07/16/2014 12:37:14 PM PDT by PoloSec

As reported earlier today by Kristinn Taylor
The Obama administration has awarded a $50 million contract to a charitable group to buy a Texas resort hotel and transform it in to a 600 bed facility for juvenile illegal aliens.

palm aire resort
The beautiful Palm Aire resort and hotel has an indoor Olympic sized pool and an outdoor pool.  Free Wi-Fi and cable TV are included in the simply decorated guest rooms.

The Palm Aire Hotel and Suites is set to be sold to Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) operating under a federal contract, pending local government approval, according to reports from Weslaco, Texas where the hotel is located. Weslaco is a few miles north of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo County.

The resort hotel for illegal alien children is reportedly the ‘first in the nation’.

But it won’t be the last…
The Obama administration gifted the Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) $190,707,505 this month to build offices in six cities and four states. This was after he met with the group last week in Texas.

The new offices will be located in New York, NY; Miami, FL; Houston, TX; Dallas, TX; Sacramento-area, CA; and Los Angeles-area, CA, will serve as regional hubs for BCFS’ new family support and evaluation programs.

Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) is expanding nationwide.

The Baptist Child and Family Services sent out this press release this month.

BCFS, a global health and human services organization headquartered in Texas, today announced the expansion of its International Children’s Services program to serve unaccompanied foreign youth throughout the country. The new offices, located in New York, NY; Miami, FL; Houston, TX; Dallas, TX; Sacramento-area, CA; and Los Angeles-area, CA, will serve as regional hubs for BCFS’ new family support and evaluation programs.

BCFS will lead these programs as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) strategic plan to provide safe and stable homes for international youth who are granted permission to stay with family or sponsors already living in the country.

“We are excited to expand our successful International Children’s Services program nationwide. Under the care and leadership of our new national and regional directors, countless children and families will receive the support they need to start their new lives off right,” said Asennet Segura, BCFS Executive Director – Residential Services Division. “As BCFS works toward meeting this mission, we look forward to forging new friendships and partnerships throughout these new regions.”

With this expansion, BCFS has named four new directors:

Celeste Garcia, National Program Director (based in San Antonio)
Garcia has extensive experience working with at-risk children and families, as well as youth in the custody of ORR. She has provided training to new ORR facilities in Texas and advocated for unaccompanied children at the state and federal levels. Garcia also has experience in crisis intervention and mental health services, having aided survivors in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She earned her Master’s of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University and Bachelor of Social Work from New Mexico State University.

Alexandra Peralta, Regional Director – Eastern U.S. (based in Miami)
Peralta has worked in the immigrant resettlement field throughout the U.S. and in Africa. She earned a master’s in Social Work from Indiana University-Perdue University; post-graduate certificate in International Human Rights from the United Nations University in Tokyo; master’s certificate in Global Mental Health, focused on Refugee Trauma, from Harvard University; master’s in Social Psychology and undergraduate degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Kelsey Lebrun Keswani, Regional Director – Western U.S. (based in Los Angeles-area)
Keswani has nearly 10 years experience working with immigrant and struggling youth. She served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Ukraine, and is fluent in Russian and French. Keswani is presently pursuing a graduate certificate in Global Mental Health from Harvard University’s Refugee Trauma program; and earned her master’s in Counseling from Michigan State University and undergraduate degree from Southern Oregon University.

Michelle Fuentes, Regional Director – Central U.S. (based in Houston-area)
Fuentes has worked with immigrant resettlement and at-risk youth programs since 1997. She has extensive experience working with victims of abuse and neglect, and has served as an advocate on behalf of immigrant children at the state and national levels. She earned her master’s in Counseling and dual undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and Broadcast Journalism from Prairie View A & M University.



TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; baptists; illegals; vacation
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To: Cementjungle

He put it on our credi cards.


41 posted on 07/16/2014 2:50:33 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: PoloSec

Yet this sonofabitch will cut the rations of our troops in A-Stan.


42 posted on 07/16/2014 2:55:21 PM PDT by Zman516 (Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: PoloSec
Shovelful by shovelful and nail by nail, the Nation's grave is dug and the Nation's coffin is built by its "leaders" with the approval and demand of a majority of the electorate.

The poetic irony of it is that the vast majority of Blacks, including those that claim to be Christians, voted for their god, messiah, and savior and he replaces them with his new disciples, the Hispanics.

43 posted on 07/16/2014 3:39:24 PM PDT by sport
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To: boycott

Do I believe blacks would start voting republican? No but they may not be as excited to turnout and vote for democrats.

Lookey here Tyrone, Obama be givin our sheet to the illegals.


44 posted on 07/16/2014 4:24:25 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: kristinn

Ping....to post #30 and to post #27.


45 posted on 07/16/2014 4:27:26 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Undecided 2012

Lookey here Tyrone, Obama be givin our sheet to the illegals.


You’ve got it. Obama is putting these illegal children in resorts and providing them with food, healthcare, security, etc.

Folks in the ghetto may not be so happy with that.


46 posted on 07/16/2014 4:40:42 PM PDT by boycott
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To: sport

Here’s an article about “diversifying” neighborhoods

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/23/team-obama-steps-up-racial-standards-for-neighborhoods/


47 posted on 07/16/2014 4:48:03 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: Jane Long

Thanks.


48 posted on 07/16/2014 5:07:28 PM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: research99

The San Antonio Business Journal has published its list of the top 25 Largest Health and Human Care Services Nonprofit Organizations.

Nonprofit groups are ranked by local fiscal year end revenues. Christus Santa Rosa Health Care Corp. ranked first on the list, followed by the San Antonio Food Bank, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc., BCFS and Goodwill Industries of San Antonio. Only the top five organizations are listed online.

BCFS
1506 Bexar Crossing
San Antonio, TX 78232
210-832-5000 $76,441,116 $76,441,116 (Revenues) $10,512,761 (Assets)
Kevin C Dinnin

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/subscriber-only/2013/08/23/christus-tops-the-charts-of-largest.html


49 posted on 07/16/2014 5:40:52 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

BCFS President Kevin Dinnin met with Obama on his most recent Texas visit at Lackland Air Base (where contractors were told to keep their mouths shut about what they saw), so this gang is tied directly the White House.

http://www.abpnews.com/culture/social-issues/item/28921-baptists-represented-in-presidential-meeting-on-child-immigrant-crisis


50 posted on 07/16/2014 9:39:04 PM PDT by research99
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To: research99

Good work.


51 posted on 07/16/2014 9:41:16 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: research99

From your link...

Jeh Johnson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, submitted testimony June 24 to a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the border crisis.

In addition to commending the Border Patrol and other federal personnel, Johnson said: “I have also witnessed how the not-for-profit Baptist Child & Family Services stepped in quickly and is also doing a remarkable job housing the unaccompanied children at Lackland, identifying and then placing them consistent with HHS’s legal obligations. All of these dedicated men and women deserve our recognition, support and gratitude.”


Follow the $$. This group has likely been *assigned* to help with this *crisis* for some time. The CEO donated to Perry’s campaign, previously. This might help explain Perry’s silence on this “resort” situation. Who knows?

They’ve also just expanded their executive operations...easy to do when you’ve been given a nice injection of taxpayer $$.


52 posted on 07/16/2014 9:48:25 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long
Direct link from BCFS CEO Kevin Dinnin attendance at a meeting with Obama, to a grant of over $190 million just last week.

On the flip side, low-paid underling contractor employees are told to keep their mouths shut about what they are seeing by security at Lackland Air Base and are subject to instant firing by their temp agency "Roth Staffing Companies".

Get the picture?

53 posted on 07/16/2014 10:07:15 PM PDT by research99
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To: boycott

“Folks in the ghetto may not be so happy with that.”

They’ll be compensated with an Executive Order for reparations in zer0’s last month in office.

Bet the farm on it.


54 posted on 07/17/2014 5:19:58 AM PDT by panaxanax
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To: panaxanax

They’ll be compensated with an Executive Order for reparations in zer0’s last month in office.

Bet the farm on it.


That wouldn’t shock me. Nothing shocks me anymore.


55 posted on 07/17/2014 5:48:59 AM PDT by boycott
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To: research99

Yep. The picture is becoming crystal clear.


56 posted on 07/17/2014 8:08:07 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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