Posted on 08/05/2014 11:08:44 AM PDT by Mariner
Contractors have taken on the huge task of sheltering thousands of unaccompanied child migrants
In the late afternoon of July 9, Air Force One touched down at Love Field in Dallas. President Barack Obama ducked into a private room at the airport for a discussion about the crisis of undocumented children crossing the southwest border. Assembled around a wooden table were top Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, as well as the leaders of several faith-based charities. One of them was a man so anonymous, the White House pool report misspelled his name.
Kevin Dinnin is the CEO of a faith-based, nonprofit organization called BCFS, formerly known as Baptist Child and Family Services. This obscure charity has emerged as one of the biggest players in the federal government’s response to the influx of more than 57,000 unaccompanied children who have trudged across the southern border so far this year. It runs two of the largest facilities for temporarily housing immigrant children, as well as six permanent shelters in California and Texas. Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants to operate these shelters, according to government records. On July 7, two days before Dinnin met Obama in Dallas, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded BCFS $190,707,505 in a single grant.
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BCFS = Baptist Children's and Family Services
Don’t blame the faith based agency whose mission is to help children and share the gospel.
Blame government who is allowing the kids in.
Don’t blame the faith based agency whose mission is to help children and share the gospel.
Blame government who is allowing the kids in.
sold out to Caesar as did the US Conference of Bishops or whatever it was called
When they bow to Caesar for his shekels, yes I blame them
and when Obama looses interest(soon) in Illegals they’ll be left holding the Tab and the Illegals
BS!!!
I blame EVERYONE involved as they are all equally culpable!
You really believe these folks are not contributing to the downfall of this great Republic?
Hell yes we'll blame them.
Exactly...what happened to separation of church and state for the leftists that are pushing this money into these charities.
Yes. The so-called “nonprofits” are ones of the worst offenders
I must admit that I am super upset that Catholic Chrities has been taking tons of money as well.
Are they bowing to Ceasar or are they helping kids, who given the government policies are going to be here anyway?
This is a government policy issue.
You think churches should turn away illegal aliens too? Tell them they should go back to their own country to learn about Christ?
Fix the government policy and there won’t be illegals for the church to help.
Are they bowing to Ceasar or are they helping kids, who given the government policies are going to be here anyway?
This is a government policy issue.
You think churches should turn away illegal aliens too? Tell them they should go back to their own country to learn about Christ?
Fix the government policy and there won’t be illegals for the church to help.
I thought they weren’t really Baptist - they just put that in the name as a cover since communist wouldn’t look so good.
I thought they weren’t really Baptist - they just put that in the name as a cover since communist wouldn’t look so good.
The fix is to make government stop giving money for this purpose.
Well don’t forget McDonalds, because I bet they sell hamburgers to illegal aliens without checking their citizenship.
The church’s mission is to help people and teach them about Jesus. It’s not the church’s mission to enforce border control. That belongs to government.
Well don’t forget McDonalds, because I bet they sell hamburgers to illegal aliens without checking their citizenship.
The church’s mission is to help people and teach them about Jesus. It’s not the church’s mission to enforce border control. That belongs to government.
The classic non-profit scam.
No profit, but we build fancy new buildings and pay everyone twice the market rate...or more.
And everyone gets to drive a new company car!
To suggest there's an equivalency here is ludicrous.
This church is FACILITATING a lawless government and is, IN FACT, in violation of the law.
This is NOT Biblical. It violates God's laws and commands.
Blaming the charities in this case is like blaming the individual citizen for buy an imported item at Walmart. It’s in the individual’s best interest, but not the nation’s.
This needs to be addressed at the government level. Don’t blame individuals or charities for acting legally in accordance with their purpose.
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