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"What was once a bustling facility in downtown McAllen now sits empty.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley Executive Director Sister Norma Pimentel said the non-profit’s respite center has seen a drop in migrants.
“Since the new administration took office… people are just not being allowed into the United States," Pimentel said.
According to Pimentel, the number of migrants being dropped off at the respite center after they’ve been processed by Border Patrol is nearly zero.
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The drop in apprehensions goes hand in hand with what's being seen at the respite center. Because of the low amount of drop-offs, Pimentel said Catholic Charities
will require less federal reimbursement.
“So if we don't have those numbers we couldn't request those reimbursements, and so those funds are not available to us then,” Pimentel said." [More]:
https://www.krgv.com/news/mcallen-respite-center-seeing-nearly-zero-visitors-since-trump-took-office
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Texas refugee aid group sues to unfreeze $36 million in federal funds - [March 03, 2025]
"Catholic Charities Fort Worth, a nonprofit organization that serves as Texas’ refugee resettlement office, has sued the Trump administration, claiming the federal government has withheld more than $36 million in grants, leading its partners to lay off workers and close some offices.
The nonprofit has been in charge of the state’s refugee resettlement programs since 2017. The state dropped out of the program in 2016, leaving a network of organizations to help refugees acclimate to Texas.
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According to the lawsuit, Catholic Charities Fort Worth has tried to access the funds more than 14 times since Jan. 29 without success. Catholic Charities Fort Worth says in its lawsuit that the federal government’s “unlawful behavior” defies the Constitution and has caused “real-world harm” to the 100,000 people living in Texas who depend on the charity.
The organization “also faces irreparable damage to its reputation, to its ability to work with the community, and to its relationship with its subrecipients and with the federally-documented and lawfully-admitted individuals and families it serves,” the lawsuit says.
Through an executive order, the Trump administration paused the federal government’s refugee program. However, a federal judge, ruling in a different lawsuit, ordered the Trump administration to restore federal funding for grants and other programs it had abruptly frozen. Since then, other organizations have received federal funds, according to Catholic Charities Fort Worth’s lawsuit.
Disclosure: Catholic Charities Fort Worth has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here."
https://www.krgv.com/news/texas-refugee-aid-group-sues-to-unfreeze-36-million-in-federal-funds
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January 30, 2024 - AUSTIN, Texas — As the Center for Immigration Studies recently reported, a United Nations-led “Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan (RMRP)” calls for more than 200 nonprofit groups to dole out $1.6 billion in cash debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and even “humanitarian transportation” during 2024 to millions of U.S.-bound immigrants in 17 Latin American nations and Mexico.
But suspicions that the administration of President Joe Biden is directly footing the bill for at least part of facilitating the most voluminous mass migration crisis in U.S. history, now in its fourth straight year, can now be confirmed.
A follow-up CIS examination of the more than 30 faith-based nonprofits among those UN NGO partners — representing Jewish, Lutheran, Seventh Day Adventist, Catholic, and nondenominational evangelical organizations — shows that the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been mainlining taxpayer funds to these groups, which then distribute them to keep hundreds of thousands of migrants comfortably moving toward illegal U.S. southern border crossings.
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HIAS. A prime example is the self-described “Jewish American” nonprofit organization HIAS of Silver Spring, Md. (incorporated in 1903 as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), which has pledged $17.1 million in aid to immigrants in at least seven Latin American nations during 2024, the UN’s RMRP planning documents show. It turns out that in FY 2022, 47 percent of revenue reported by HIAS came as grants from government agencies, the majority from the State Department, but some also from the Department of Homeland Security, according to the group’s tax filings and other sources, with the balance coming from a mix of major corporate sponsors and other sources.
But there can be little question about the origins and purpose of at least some of HIAS’s $17 million pledge to the UN’s Latin America migrant trails project. Last year, the State Department’s PRM gave HIAS a $6 million grant for it, according to USAspending.gov, a database that tracks federal spending.
The first infusions of another $5.2 million State Department PRM grant to HIAS this year — explicitly for the UN endeavor in Latin America — started arriving in September 2023 with the last of it to come in September of this year, according to USAspending.gov.
All $11 million was earmarked to HIAS by the State Department's overseas refugee assistance programs for the Western Hemisphere, which the UN plan aims to support through “direct emergency humanitarian assistance such as food, non-food items, shelter, health, psychosocial support” in major migration transit countries like Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
A UN “activity explorer” database of the participating NGOs shows that some $6.1 million of 2024’s HIAS commitment will go out as cash cards, cash vouchers, and cash in-kind services while most of the rest goes to humanitarian transportation, food, shelter, and various services.
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https://cis.org/Bensman/Biden-Admin-Sends-Millions-Religious-Nonprofits-Facilitating-Mass-Illegal-Migration
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Maybe they should pray harder to Godberg.
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[Excerpts]:
"Catholic Charities USA (CCU) is an umbrella group for local charities throughout the United States affiliated with the Catholic Church. It is the largest social safety net provider in the United States after the federal government. 1
Tax-Exempt Status: 501(c)(3) [Non-profit]
Formation: 1910
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Catholic Charities USA primarily supports left-of-center political goals concerning the expansion of welfare, including expanding food stamps, raising the minimum wage, and more government subsidies for children. However, CCU holds conservative positions on same-sex couples and abortion.
In 1910, 400 individuals attended the first National Conference of Catholic Charities (NCCC) to coordinate charitable efforts across the United States. During the Great Depression, the NCCC was a strong advocate for the establishment of government welfare programs. 4
In 1986, the NCCC was renamed to Catholic Charities USA, with the national organization taking a more centralized role over its dozens of local affiliates. 4
CCU, as well as 11 of its affiliates, is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Ascend Network, a project to coordinate philanthropic groups and support best practices. 3
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Politics
Catholic Charities USA supports mostly left-of-center welfare expansionist political policies, including government-subsidized housing, government subsidies and tax credits for families, universal pre-K education, expansion of food stamps, expanded Medicare, liberal immigration policies, and the permanent establishment of the Universal Charitable Deduction. 5
In 2010, CCU president Larry Snyder was made a member of President Barack Obama’s (D) Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. 6
Immigration
CCU supports the American Dream and Promise Act (ADPA), which provides a pathway to citizenship for immigrant beneficiaries of the proposed DREAM Act. Passage of the ADPA would facilitate residency of Dreamers while the DREAM Act continues to be debated. 7
In February 2022, the CCU was named in a lawsuit by the right-wing CatholicVote against Sister Norma Pimentel, a nun who runs an immigrant support center in McAllen, Texas. CatholicVote demanded the publication of communications between Pimentel, the CCU, and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Allegedly, the Pimentel and the CCU coordinated with the Border Patrol to facilitate the entry of more illegal immigrants into the United States. 8
CCU “strongly oppose[d]” President Donald Trump’s (R) restrictions on asylum access implemented in 2020. 9
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Funding
In 2021, Catholic Charities USA received over $2 million in federal grants, including $601,000 from the Department of Justice, $595,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, $573,000 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and $244,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service. 20
In 2018, CCU lost “significant” funding from donors after revelations of a wave of sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic Church. 21
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Associations with Government Bureaucracy
In 2000, then-City Journal editor Brian Anderson criticized Catholic Charities USA for becoming “an arm of the welfare state, with 65 percent of its $2.3 billion annual budget now flowing from government sources,” little of which went toward religious or “values-laden” activities. 22"
[Continues]: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/catholic-charities-usa/
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Catholic Charities Versus the Poor
"Yes, there was Catholic Charities spokeswoman Sharon Daly seated alongside Kweisi Mfume of the NAACP, Jesse Jackson from the Rainbow Coalition, John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO, and, get this, Patricia Ireland of the National Organization for Women. Ms. Daly introduced her remarks by cavalierly noting that this was the first time she had ever appeared on the same platform with the militantly pro-abortion Patty Ireland. (Wasn’t that a tip-off to Ms. Daly that she’d stumbled onto the wrong side of this issue.) But it would appear that Catholic Charity’s commitment to big government is one of its highest callings. The Brookings crowd, of course, was delighted at this new and improbable feminist-Catholic alliance. "
https://www.cato.org/commentary/catholic-charities-versus-poor#