Oh SNAP! The Obama Administration is request help from CATHOLICS? Is Hell frozen over?
And the Catholic Church is dumb enough to bite.
After slapping Catholics around over birth control mandates, etc., they beg them for help on the border.
And yes, the Catholics will comply here because frankly they are in support of increased immigration to fill empty pews.
“Oh SNAP! The Obama Administration is request help from CATHOLICS? Is Hell frozen over?”
02/21/2014
And last November, staff from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)’ Department of Migration and Refugee Services, the largest refugee-resettlement agency in the world, organized a mission to Mexico and Central America to examine the reasons for increased number of young migrants crossing the border.
The resulting report, issued in January by the USCCB delegation, led by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, warned that an estimated 60,000 undocumented minors — referred to in U.S. law as “unaccompanied alien children” (UAC) — could arrive in this country before the close of 2014.
Report (November, 2013)
http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-policy/upload/Mission-To-Central-America-FINAL-2.pdf
American taxpayers will support 60,000 unaccompanied minors this year predicts USCCB
February 22, 2014
There would be no USCCB Office of Migration and Refugee Services without your money.
Go to page 11 of the USCCB 2012 annual report, here.
Note that out of a total revenue stream of $70.9 million, government grants and contracts were an astounding $65.9 million. They also garnered another $3.6 million from refugee travel loans (that is your money too!)
http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-and-refugee-services/upload/Annual-Report-2012.pdf
http://www.usccb.org/about/financial-reporting/upload/financial-statements-2011-2012.pdf
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Read full statement by Bishop Seitz before Congressional committee on immigration of unaccompanied children
POSTED: 11:17 AM MDT Jun 25, 2014
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am here to speak with you today about this special population of vulnerable children who are very close to my heart as I have met with many of them, some as young as five years old, while they were being cared for in Catholic Charities facilities in my diocese in El Paso. In addition to ministering to these youth in El Paso, in November 2013, I was privileged to lead a United States Conference of Catholic Bishops delegation traveling to Southern Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to examine and understand the flight of unaccompanied migrating children and youth from the region and stand in solidarity with these children and their families.
In January 2014, we issued our findings from the trip in a report entitled, “USCCB: Mission to Central America: Flight of the Unaccompanied Immigrant Children to the United States” (2014 USCCB Central America Report 2014).1 Mr. Chairman, I ask that 2014 USCCB Central America Report be included in the hearing record.
During our mission to Central America, we visited migrant children shelters, heard tearful stories from grandmothers waiting to pick up their recently repatriated grandchildren, and listened to children as young as six years old speak solemnly of trafficking and exploitation that was inflicted upon them along their migration journey.
The corresponding report that came out of our mission acknowledged that a new paradigm regarding unaccompanied children is upon us- namely it is clear that unaccompanied children are facing new and increased dangers and insecurity and are fleeing in response. As a result, this phenomenon requires a regional and holistic solution rooted in humanitarian and child welfare principles. Since our mission and report issuance, many of the humanitarian challenges facing this vulnerable population have persisted and increased. In my remarks, I will highlight and update our observations and recommendations from that report.
Mr. Chairman, my testimony today will recommend that Congress:
Address the issue of unaccompanied child migration as a humanitarian crisis requiring cooperation from all branches of the US government and appropriate the necessary funding to respond to the crisis in a holistic and child protection-focused manner;
Adopts policies to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children receive appropriate child welfare services, legal assistance, and access to immigration protection where appropriate;
Require that a best interest of the child standard be applied in immigration proceedings governing unaccompanied alien children;
Examine root causes driving this forced migration situation, such as violence from non-state actors in countries of origin and a lack of citizen security and adequate child protection mechanisms; and
Seek and support innovative home country and transit country solutions that would enable children to remain and develop safely in their home country.
I. Catholic Social Teaching
The Catholic Church is an immigrant church, as more than one-third of Catholics in the United States are of Hispanic origin. The Catholic Church in the United States is also made up of more than 58 ethnic groups from throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Near East, and Latin America.
The Catholic Church has a long history of involvement in child protection and refugee and asylum protection, both in the advocacy arena and in welcoming and assimilating waves of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who have helped build our nation. Migration and Refugee Services of USCCB (MRS/USCCB) is the largest refugee resettlement agency in the United States, resettling one million of the three million refugees who have come to our country since1975. MRS/USCCB is a national leader in caring for unaccompanied alien and refugee children as well. We work with over 100 Catholic Charities across the country to welcome unaccompanied alien children into our communities and provide for their care and general well-being.
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