Posted on 07/09/2014 5:50:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
Way back in time, Slick Willy informed us that Jesus was a homeless person because he was born in a stable, with no mention of the fact that Joseph and Mary were in town because they were dutifully paying their fair share of taxes to the Roman Empire’s equivalent of the IRS.
“Thought Marxists never mentioned Jesus?”
They get all religious when they think they can use Jesus as a club.
Message from the HHS: STFU.
These people who make their leaving being paid by the regime aren’t very bright. I wonder if he’s talking about Jose’s brother, Jesus (Hey soos).
yeah, according to the left Jesus was homeless, and Mary was a single mom...
The Romans were not fools.
I've never seen the ones in the Middle East but I have seen them across Germany. They took it seriously.
Now, as to the poor excuse for a bureaucrat attempting to be a theologian, I have but one retort...pppffffftttt!!
At what point does a mass immigration become an invasion? And does the age of the invaders disqualify them as what they are? I consider myself a compassionate person and support causes in legal means. I only ask that those requesting aid do so legally as well.
Jesus was a Jew living in his homeland Israel.
It was Romans who came from Italy who destroyed his country in 74 AD.
Invaders come to take and destroy.
We are being invaded!!!!
Only an idiot could say this.
Accompanied by his Mother and Father as they fled to Egypt.
Do these government clowns really want to compare what happened 2000 years ago with today’s Godless environment?
There is nothing they can say that will make this mass invasion OK!
> It’s always amusing when atheists/satanists tell Christians what Jesus would do.
Worth framing.
I doubt anyone in HHS knows who Jesus was.
I’d estimate that probably about 10% of the male illegal aliens crossing the border are named Jesus and 25% of the female illegal aliens are named Mary (Maria). Another 15% of the males are named Joseph (Jose).
Remarkable - this administration fights everything Christian, then has the gall to pull Jesus out of its hat to justify a refugee problem of its own creation. Disgusting.
Because liberals like to try and portray Conservative Christians as hypocrites by throwing their twisted versions of scripture at us.
The so called religious groups which are harboring the illegals are not doing ANYTHING about going to south America to fix the underlying problem they identify. These so called religious groups are content to stay in the USA and mooch off of taxpayers.
True, but they all know that his middle name began with the letter "H".
“Eskinder Negash, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), said at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 2014 Migration Conference in Washington, D.C.”
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
Page 13 (3)
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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http://www.conservativehq.com/article/17676-saving-border-when-cavalry-isnt-coming
As Ann Corcoran, purveyor of the must-read website, Refugee Resettlement Watch, has taught me, population replacement is big business, and the zealous bureaucrats who seek to “fundamentally transform” this country make a good, taxpayer-funded living while they’re at it.
So, while your border is in tatters and perhaps your town under siege, know that you are paying for it. You’re paying for that new illegal minor alien facility now opening in Tucson — the 17th such facility operated by a group called Southwest Key, with an annual budget of more than $150 million, according to NBC affiliate KVOA, “most of which comes from federal government contracts.” (Bonus: the chairman of Southwest Key’s board of directors, Victor Garza, is an official of La Raza, which hopes to reclaim the Southwest for Mexico.)
You’re paying for the “migration and refugee services” of the very preachy U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Citing the USCCB 2012 annual report, Corcoran notes that out of an operating budget of roughly $71 million, about $69.6 million is taxpayer money. As Corcoran writes, “It is not Christian charity when the ‘church’ is paid by the taxpayers to do charitable work.”
No, it’s a big Washington con. Don’t fall for it. Hold the line. United, maybe we don’t need the cavalry.
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