Catholics close 20 refugee offices, layoff hundreds
as federal funding plummets, by Ann Corcoran 4/22/18
“There is not a Catholic Charities program that has
not been impacted in some way…picture is not a pretty one.”
Jim Kuh, Director of immigration and refugee services for Catholic
Charities USA
Here
we go again, another whinny story about how that mean ol’ Donald Trump is
hurting Catholic
RELIGIOUS programs by cutting the number of refugees who
come with federal funding attached to each one!
Before
reading on check out the Capital Research Center tutorial on why it is bad policy all
around for taxpayers to fund Catholic Charities.
This
is what I think every time I see stories like this:
If the Catholic Church and its members want to help the poor throughout
the world, they should use their own private charity! And, better
still, be brave and go to where the people are suffering and help them
there. It is not the role of the US government to fund the church’s good
works!
(Editor:
as I said yesterday, in order to read the rest of this
post, click on the link below!) Here is a
bit of the story from Crux:
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – War, famine and gang violence have created the largest global refugee
population since World War II, yet the U.S. has drastically cut the numbers of
refugees it will accept, causing the reduction and closure of Catholic
resettlement programs nationwide. [You need to know that escaping
gang violence does not make one a legitimate REFUGEE—ed]
Nearly 20 U.S. Catholic refugee resettlement programs have closed in
the past two years and dozens of others have scaled back their efforts because there are fewer refugees
being admitted into the country, said Richard Hogan, director of resettlement
services for Migration and Refugee Services, an arm of the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops.
Fewer refugees arriving! How about raising private money to better care
for the ones you admitted in previous years many of whom are still living
desperate lives!
Crux continues….The
number of refugees authorized for admission to the U.S. in fiscal year 2018,
which began Oct. 1, 2017, was cut to 45,000, but the State Department has
admitted only 10,548 in the first six months.
Catholic Charities agencies traditionally resettle roughly 25 percent
of all refugees admitted into the U.S. each year and the decreases in numbers have been felt,
said Jim Kuh, senior director of immigration and refugee services for Catholic
Charities USA. [There are nine federal refugee
contractors***, and the Catholics place 25% of them, wow! they must be hurting
financially—ed].
“There
is not a Catholic Charities program that has not been impacted in some way,”
Kuh told Catholic News Service, adding that the “picture is not a pretty one.”
Catholic organizations charged with resettling refugees have laid off
or transferred as many as 300 employees as a direct result of the reduced
numbers, Hogan
said, adding that his department hasn’t received updated data since November,
meaning that figure may be higher.
It
is all Trump’s fault! What? The Catholic Church can’t work for “human dignity”
without an infusion from taxpayers?
Trump
administration policies involving refugees is a rejection “of a hierarchy of
issues of concern to the Church,” Kerwin said. “These issues involve life, they
involve human dignity, they involve flourishing. People are being killed by gangs,
they’re being persecuted.”
What?
Catholics can’t help refugees to sign up for ‘their services’ without being
paid for their charitable good works?
In
addition to providing economic relief to refugees, Catholic Charities programs
assist them with navigating health and school systems, receiving temporary cash
assistance, tutoring for the youth, English as a second language for adults,
orientations to help with cultural adjustment and even clinical counseling,
said Shalaina Harlan-Yuya, director of refugee services for Catholic Charities
Fort Worth.
“Because these individuals have been persecuted or fear persecution due
to their race, nationality, religion, social group membership or political
affiliation, they deserve our welcoming spirit, hospitality, and support,”
she said.
Yes,
maybe, but not with federal money! I truly doubt that Jesus would approve
of this arrangement!
Read
the whole whine-fest Crux article here. The
article goes on to mention that the refugees that CC places will do work
Americans won’t do. And, they say that some offices are trying to stay
afloat until “when arrivals return to prior levels.”
I
post the contractor list almost every day because I want new readers to know
exactly who is responsible for driving the US Refugee Admissions Program (in
addition to the UN!).
It
gets a little tricky trying to figure out how much of your money actually goes
to the Catholic Church because the Bishops get nearly $100 million and then
individual Catholic Charities get millions more.
I
recommend that you search USA Spending and research grants and contracts for your local
Catholic diocese to see the infusion from the feds into your community.
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with (low paying) jobs in food production
and cleaning hotel rooms, and get them signed up for their services (welfare)! From most recent accounting, here.
Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular) (93%)
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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