American Bishops Support of Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking

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American Bishops Support of Illegal Immigration and Human Trafficking (100+ articles)

(see Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale, Code of Cannon Law 212)

Below is a list of articles showing how the American Bishops and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) support illegal immigration and therefore human trafficking.

  1. Hijacking Christian Compassion: You Have Been Lied to About the Border (youtube.com) – 12/11/23.
    • Since Biden took office, we’ve seen over 8 million migrants from 180 countries around the world.
    • Ends (better life for migrants) Do not justify means (violating law, subjecting migrates to grave risk, allowing drugs, criminals, and national security threats to enter country)
    • Tolerating and even encouraging illegal immigration causes our borders to be insecure, allowing drugs, criminals, and national security threats to enter the country.
    • Open borders are unchristian, inhumane, and deadly. Thousands of dead migrants; 30% of women making journey are sexually assaulted (according to Doctors without Borders); thousands more are sex-trafficked after entering the U.S.
  2. The Catholic Cartel – Complicit Clergy – 2/3/22 – powerful 17-minute video summary
  3. America’s Catholic Bishops Get Rich Off Our Broken Borders – The Stream – 6/12/23
  4. Why are Catholic Bishops Defending Illegal Immigration? They’re Bought? | Intellectual Takeout– 6/20/18
    • Our government doles out billions of dollars to organizations and charities that settle refugees and aid illegal immigrants. If our illegal immigration problem suddenly went away, then there would be no reason to fund groups such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, BCFS Health and Human Services (a Baptist group), Catholic Charities, or Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service.
  5. Could This Be Why Bishops Appear to Hate Trump And Love Biden? (complicitclergy.com) – 2/2/24
    • While Trump cut USCCB grants by 50% during his first administration, Biden increased USCCB funding by over 150% during the two years of his administration.
  6. WATCH: Catholic Charities Trafficking Children? (complicitclergy.com) – 6-minute video plus 48 links
  7. WATCH: Catholic NGOs’ Role in Illegal Immigration (complicitclergy.com) – 1/13/24 – 3-minute video plus 48 links
  8. WATCH: Catholic Charities of San Diego Operating Secret Hotel for Illegal Aliens? (complicitclergy.com) – 4-minute video plus 48 links
  9. Feds Gave Catholic Charities $769 Million since 2021 that Helped Shelter, Transport Biden’s Migrants into U.S. Communities (breitbart.com) – 8/21/24
  10. Catholic Church collects $1.6 billion in U.S. contracts, grants since 2012 – Washington Times– 9/24/15
  11. Illegal border crossers total over 10 million since Biden inauguration | National | thecentersquare.com – 10/27/23 – greater than the individual populations of 41 states.
  12. The Bishops’ Misapplication of Catholic Charity on Our Southern Border (thefederalist.com) – 9/24/21
    • More than any other religious group, it is America’s Catholic bishops who lend moral support and cover to the current border situation.  How? Through their promotion to open borders — a strict adherence that warps God’s call to love our neighbors and misunderstands the criminal situation at the border.  Any step the United States might take to enforce its immigration laws, the bishops oppose it — loudly and swiftly.
    • “The [USCCB] collected $50 million for migration and refugee services for the year 2020, most of which came from the federal government,” Lepanto Institute President Michael Hichborn told the news site Church Militant. “During that same period,” he added,” the U.S. bishops collected a meager $777,000 for pro-life activities.”
    • While we have an ordered call to charity, we don’t have a religious duty to have no nations, no laws, and no order.
    • God does not call us to violate just laws for charity, understanding we cannot extend good deeds to everyone on earth… no single teaching obscures the others to the detriment of the good; justice, charity, and mercy all must be weighed.  The Bishops have not paid proper heed to the harmful effects this charity without justice has had on the lives of the vulnerable.
    • The results of these mistakes are painful, are deadly, and are on our border every day and night. On this, there can be no confusion; it’s time for our church to recognize it.
  13. Catholic Bishops Complicit In The Chaos At The Southern Border – YouTube – 1/6/22
  14. Refusing to Address the Border Crisis is Immoral | Opinion (newsweek.com) – 1/25/23
  15. How the Left Will Repay the Catholic Church on Immigration – American Thinker– 6/24/14
  16. Extensive Analysis Reveals Bishops Bank Billions in Federal Immigration Funding (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/23
  17. Catholic bishops oppose new Iowa immigration law – CatholicVote org – 5/13/24
  18. ‘Catholic Charities Has Engaged in Criminal Activity’ — Stew Peters | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)– 10/23/23
  19. “Midnight At The Border” | Running on Truth | Episode 2 – YouTube– August, 2023 RFK Jr.
  20. Cities Face Bankruptcy as Sanctuary Policies Trigger States of Emergency | EpochTV (theepochtimes.com)– 10/24/23 – NY, LA, Chicago, Wash. DC
  21. Human Traffickers Posing as Catholic Charities (churchmilitant.com) – 10/19/23
  22. Bishop blasts ‘false narrative’ behind Texas anti-immigrant policy | Crux (cruxnow.com) – 10/31/23
  23. Congress to Investigate Catholic Charities? (churchmilitant.com) – 10/19/23
  24. ‘Catholic Charities Has Engaged in Criminal Activity’ — Stew Peters | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 10/23/23
  25. Watchdogs demand info from DHS, HHS on NGOs working along Texas border to aid illegal immigrants | Fox News– 2/9/22
  26. Catholic Charities’ Role in the Border Crisis – Catholic Journal– July, 2021
  27. Catholic Charities, Texas diocese under fire for transporting illegal migrants with Biden admin – lifesitenews.com– 2/18/22
  28. The Catholic Church and Illegal Immigration | Intellectual Takeout– 1/30/20
  29. The Catholic Church and Immigration (churchmilitant.com) – Church Militant interviews Michelle Malkin
  30. 50 Catholic Groups Lobby Congress to Oppose Proposed Limits on Illegal Immigration (complicitclergy.com) – 1/9/24
  31. Illegal Immigrant Caravans and Criminal Catholics (townhall.com)– Michelle Malkin
    • Make no mistake: These are not desperate people suddenly seeking refuge from violence and harm. They are low-wage workers, pew-fillers and future ethnic-bloc voters being exploited by Big Business, the Vatican and the Democrat Party.
    • Pope Francis donated $500,000 nine months ago from his Peter’s Pence fund to assist illegal immigrant caravan participants. The subsidies cover “27 projects in 16 dioceses and Mexican religious congregations” for “housing, food and basic necessities,” as well as “migrant” assistance programs “run by seven dioceses and three religious congregations: the Scalabrinians, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Hermanas Josefinas,” according to the Catholic News Service.
  32. Catholic Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration in Texas – Complicit Clergy– 11/18/21
  33. The Catholic Cartel – Bishops Making Millions in Trafficking Illegal Aliens – Complicit Clergy– 10/30/21
  34. Immigration Cash Cow (churchmilitant.com)
  35. Extensive Analysis Reveals Bishops Bank Billions In Federal Immigration Funding (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/23
  36. Catholic NGOs Receive Billions in Government Funding to Provide Illegals Housing, Food, Healthcare, Financial Assistance and More (complicitclergy.com) – 12/31/22
  37. Catholic NGOs Continue to Cash In (churchmilitant.com) – 8/28/23
  38. Report: NGOs Nonprofits Making Bank off of Vulnerable Migrants – CatholicVote org – 5/13/24
  39. Catholic groups fund illegals hopping the border: A travesty (wnd.com)– 2/11/22
  40. Congress Must Defund Nonprofits Aiding Biden’s Open-Border Operations (dailysignal.com) – 5/2/23
  41. Nun spearheading illegal alien invasion is really a dedicated revolutionary with elitist ties – World Tribune– 2/22/22
  42. Taxpayer Money Facilitating Mass Migration (cis.org)– 2/24/22
  43. Catholic Bishops Urge Biden: Hurry on Those Afghan Refugees – PJ Media – 8/18/21
  44. Watch — Catholic Charities Coordinates Migrant Arrivals: They ‘Need Help’ (breitbart.com) – 4/18/22
  45. Catholic Charities Enabling the Illegal Invasion of our Nation (complicitclergy.com)
  46. Illegal immigration is a sin (chastitysf.com) – 1/14/24
  47. Who’s Really Facilitating America’s Border Crisis? Biden Isn’t Acting Alone (dailysignal.com) – 12/7/22
  48. How feds use charities to hide the true cost of the US border crisis (nypost.com) – 12/21/22
  49. Are U.S. Bishops Complicit in the Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Children? (complicitclergy.com) – 12/8/22
  50. Liz Yore Calls Upon U.S. Bishops To Get Out of the Business of Trafficking Illegal Aliens (complicitclergy.com) – 12/10/22 – see numerous related posts
  51. Is Catholic Charities Helping Turn America Blue? (complicitclergy.com) – 12/10/22 – The Heritage Foundation recently issued a shocking reporttracking cell phone data originating from non-governmental agencies helping to relocate illegal immigrates to various locations across our nation.
  52. Michael Hichborn on Jerm Warfare with Jeremy Nell – 17 November 2023 | Listen Notes – 11/16/23
  53. Government hides money for illegal immigration in charities (nypost.com) – 7/22/22
  54. Secular Media Stepping up to Expose the Corrupt Bishops (churchmilitant.com) – 8/22/23
  55. They have failed to stop “Catholic” charitable organizations from funding organizations which are blatantly anti-Catholic.
  56. The Case Against Catholic Relief Services – YouTube– 2/18/22
  57. Catholic Relief Services Documents Promote Condom Use in Africa – The Lepanto Institute– 3/2/20
  58. Michael Hichborn: What’s Going on with the USCCB? – YouTube– 6/27/17
  59. Catholic Charities Scam | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)– 2/15/22
  60. Lepanto Institute Responds to Bishop Chairman of Catholic Relief Services– 3/28/21
  61. Heretical Association of Catholic Priests Supports Pro-LGBT Adoption Legislation– 4/15/21
  62. Catholic-Funded Organizations and Networks Financially Tied to Massive Pro-Abortion Initiative – The Lepanto Institute (11/14/21)
  63. Biden Admin Turns Blind Eye to Exploitive Migrant Child Labor – CatholicVote org – 3/7/23
  64. More Taxpayer Funding for NGOs that Assist Illegal Aliens Amid Border Crisis | Federation for American Immigration Reform (fairus.org) – 8/25/23
  65. The US Bishops’ Migrant Wealth Makes Boys and Girls Victims | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 9/14/23
  66. Catholic Charities Maine Touts Taxpayer-Funded Migrant Resettlement Plans – The Maine Wire – 12/15/23
  67. S. bishops weigh in on border deal negotiations | Catholic News Agency – 12/16/23 – “deeply concerned” about the “real-life impact” of a crackdown at the border.
  68. A Reporter’s Searing Challenge of Episcopal Corruption | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com) – 9/15/23 – World Tribune article: Leftist Catholic NGO fueling illegal alien invasion. Anti-globalist weekly articles by Joe Schaeffer. Catholic Charities funded primarily by the US Government.
  69. Bishops Bank Millions in U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Aiding in the Illegal Invasion of our Nation (complicitclergy.com) – 12/31/23
  70. Cardinal Dolan: Illegal Immigration “Helps Our Church” | The Wanderer Newspaper (thewandererpress.com) – 1/5/24
  71. Cardinal Dolan Lectures Catholics on Illegal Immigration (complicitclergy.com) – 12/30/23
  72. Archbishop Timothy Dolan: Catholics Are Rebelling Against Church’s Pro-Migration Policies (breitbart.com) – 12/30/23
  73. Are the US Bishops Covering Up Child Exploitation Again? | The Christian Review – 9/9/23 – The USCCB must urgently re-assess its border policy and its denial of a link between open borders and child exploitation.
    • The Bishops objected to “initiatives [such as] . . . tripling of Border Patrol agents, especially at ports of entry, and the use of sophisticated technology such as ground sensors, surveillance cameras, heat-detecting scopes, and reinforced fencing.”
  74. Senators share grisly details from recent border trip | Washington Examiner – 7/20/22
  75. Louisiana governor explains why he cut money to Catholic Charities: money is going to illegal immigrants – CatholicVote org – 6/27/24
  76. FOIA Finds Catholic Charities Colluded with City of Chicago to House Illegal Immigrants | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor – 6/28/24
  77. Meet The NGOs Facilitating Mass Immigration Under The Banner Of Religion (dailywire.com) – 6/4/24
  78. FOIA Finds Catholic Charities Colluded with City of Chicago to House Illegal Immigrants – 6/28/24 – Catholic Charities received a whopping $1.4 BILLION from the federal government in 2021. In summary, billions of dollars are being siphoned from legal citizens to bring in a new class of citizen that the government will paternalize in order to get the votes they desire. Pseudo-religious organizations will collude and extort taxpayer money from the federal government in order to make your communities less safe, your food is more expensive, and price you into a renter class as they grow government endlessly. All of this has accelerated under the Biden administration since 2020. Government subsidies for private corporations are often lamented. The question becomes, which charitable donation is worse? Corporate or religious?
  79. Poll: Catholics Reject Church’s Pro-Migration Policies – 7/12/24
  80. How Texas Bishop Michael Olson is Helping the Biden/Harris Administration Transform America Using Your Tax Dollars – 9/9/24 – A Fort Worth, Texas church has been given control of nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer funds to dole out cash to border crossers and has given tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to Soros-funded organizations.
  81. Catholic Charities Partnering with Supporters of Terrorism? – 9/29/24 –  Catholic Charities of Forth Worth got nearly a billion dollars from Biden-Harristo give to illegal aliens.
  82. Government Reports Reveal the Terrible Consequences of U.S. Bishops’ Role in Enabling Illegal Immigration – 9/30/24
  83. Texas AG says Catholic charity is smuggling migrants into US, running a ‘stash house’ – 11/3/24
  84. USCCB Distorts Church Teachings To Cajole Catholics Into Voting For Open Borders – 11/5/24.
    • USCCB: “The Gospel mandate to “welcome the stranger” requires Catholics to care for and stand with newcomers, authorized and unauthorized, including unaccompanied immigrant children, refugees and asylum-seekers, those unnecessarily detained, and victims of human trafficking.”
    • There is nothing Christian about facilitating the erosion of national identity. Nowhere is it written that God promised any people the right to gate crash another country and demand social services.
    • The human right to emigrate — leave one’s homeland — entails no right to enter — immigrate to — whichever country the emigrant chooses. To insist otherwise is to rob natal citizens of the fruits of their own labor. It cheats them, too, of the continuity of the social and historic dimensions of their own culture.
  85. US Bishops Denounce Trump’s Immigration Plan – The American Spectator – 1/11/25.
    • The Catholic Church has very clear teachings on immigration and border control, but Cupich, McElroy, and their episcopal brethren are seemingly content to ignore and even denigrate these teachings. Why? Because the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) profitsfrom the ongoing immigration crisis.
    • US bishops stand to lose lots of money from mass deportations.
    • Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan described to Tucker Carlson why he came out of retirement for a second time to join Trump’s administration. “When you lose the border, trafficking and sex trafficking’s going to skyrocket, child deaths will skyrocket, migrant deaths will skyrocket, American deaths will skyrocket.”
    • Homan lamented the more-than-300,000 migrant children who have gone missing at the border since President Joe Biden took office four years ago.
    • The approach of the U.S. bishops — that of facilitating the wanton violation of America’s laws, of encouraging the invasion of the nation by a host of criminals, of turning a blind eye to the horrific abuses that Homan plans to end — is not a compassionate one.
  86. JD Vance slams USCCB for open borders hypocrisy during CBS interview – 1/27/25
  87. JD Vance Knows That Catholic Charities Has Lost Its Soul – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics – 2/1/25
  88. Religious NGOs Draw Scrutiny Over Facilitating Illegal Immigration – 2/3/25
  89. Trump border chief blasts Pope Francis’ hypocrisy on illegal immigration – 1/27/25. ‘He can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives. The American people are not allowed that?’ Tom Homan, a lifelong Catholic, said. ‘He ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess.’
  90. USCCB & Catholic Charities Received $449 Million to Exploit Migrant Children – Corpus Christi for Unity and Peace – 2/4/25
  91. DEBUNKING the Deceptive Immigration Talking Points of our Bishops – 2/4/25
  92. Billions in Blood Money – Crisis Magazine – 2/4/25. It is well-documented that illegal immigration is responsible for various forms of human suffering and degradation. Murder, gang violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, narcotics trafficking, theft, terrorism, organized crime, torture, rape, assault, kidnapping, corruption, money laundering, various forms of fraud, and environmental crime all result from illegal immigration.  The Biden administration funneling billions of taxpayer money to NGOs to facilitate their open border policies was done for two reasons: 1.) The federal agencies involved did not have the capacity to provide the logistics necessary for such a massive influx of people. 2.) Primarily because of issues of venue, jurisdiction, and NGO non-accountability, the federal money flow was not transparent. I believe it was intentional. The taxpayer money was effectively laundered in order to advance the Biden administration’s open border policies.
  93. WATCH: Moral Theologian Fr. Kirby Explains Why JD Vance Was Right About Immigration – 2/4/25 – 60-minute video.
  94. Pope pens surprise letter to US bishops criticizing Trump’s immigration initiatives – 2/11/25. “The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
  95. BREAKING | Pope Francis declares war on Trump’s immigration crackdown – 2/11/25
  96. WHAT TO KNOW | Why Pope Francis is attacking Trump’s policy – 2/11/25
  97. US Bishops Panic As Funding Dries Up And Laity Turn Against Them – 2/11/25
  98. The Vatican Vs the United States: Francis Takes Heat For Major Blunder – 2/14/25
  99. Bishop Strickland Letter in Response to Pope Francis’s Letter to U.S. Bishops on Immigration – 2/13/25
  100. Who is the Final Judge of the Temporal Order? Clerics or Lay Rulers? It is Lay Rulers.
    • Immigration policy is a political issue, decided by politicians, and no cleric is permitted to be a politician (outside the sovereign nation of the Vatican City, of course). Thus, Mr. Vance, and all Catholic politicians, are bound to give deference to the Holy Father (and all clerics’) political opinions, but they must also know that it is they, not the clerics, who make the final decision about the temporal order.
    • The clerics provide lay people with principles of Catholic government. The lay people alone have the authority to apply those principles to laws and policies. Only in the case of manifestly grave sin can a cleric intervene to “depose” or “excommunicate” a lay ruler. This is the doctrine of the Two Swords, which even Vatican II confirmed(again).
  101. Can J.D. Vance Help Save the Catholic Church? – 2/14/25. from Complicit Clergyby Mike McCormick. See  book An Almost Insurmountable Evil: How Obama’s Deep State Defiled the Catholic Church and Executed the Wuhan Plandemic.
  102. Viganò Responds to Francis’ Declaration of War on Immigration – 2/11/25
  103. Archbishop Viganò: US bishops attack Trump after losing government cash – 2/19/25
  104. Deep state vs. the Church, Bannon, Westen & Yore break it down – 2/17/25. Need to defund all NGO grants. McCarrick’s involvement in illegal immigration & child trafficking. Did Obama pressure Pope Benedict to step down?
  105. Bishops Burning Bridges – 2/18/25
    • Remember in 2018 when the USCCB decided to take no action on McCarrick because the pope encouraged them to wait, and then nothing ever came of it? The uproar receded, McCarrick was safely tucked away in a remote country refuge, and no one ever took action, confirming the impression that the bishops protect predators in their ranks, no matter how nightmarish.
    • After the uncountable abuses and cover-ups, the financial scandals in the Vatican, the promotion of clerics who are demonstrably anti-Catholic and the scuttling of those who proclaim Christ, after paying off accusers with little to no investigation and ruining the lives of innocent priests while failing to do a bloomin’ thing about those who patronize gay sex apps for meetups and text their lovers late at night…the bishops will have few left to support them if law enforcement arrives to investigate malfeasance.
    • As a layperson wounded by the bishops, over and over, I lament the hard-heartedness with which I now regard them. The only bishops I perceive to be interested in the spiritual well-being of their people have allowed themselves to be bound and gagged in the aftermath of Bishop Joseph Strickland’s unjust removal from his diocese. The Vatican chill factor has worked well on the rest of the U.S. episcopacy.

See also: Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples | USCCB.  Key Principles:

  1. People have the right to migrate to sustain their lives and the lives of their families.
  2. A country has the right to regulate its borders and to control immigration.
  3. A country must regulate its borders with justice and mercy.
    • The Catholic Church teaches that every person has basic human rights and is entitled to have basic human needs met—food, shelter, clothing, education, and health care. (Freely offered or by mandate?  What limits?  What about the existing poor already in the country?)
    • Current immigration policy that criminalizes the mere attempt to immigrate and imprisons immigrants who have committed no crime or who have already served a just sentence for a crime is immoral.  (So, is it acceptable to break the laws associated with principle #2? Can we choose to break other laws?)
    • It is the position of the Catholic Church that pastoral, educational, medical, and social services provided by the Church are never conditioned on legal status. All persons are invited to participate in our parishes, attend our schools, and receive other services offered by our institutions and programs. (That’s all fine but what about the collateral damage caused by human trafficking, a direct result of the Catholic Church encouraging illegal immigration?  And does this policy justify the Bishops aiding and abetting those breaking the law?)

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