The Catholic Church and Immigration
By Trey Brock
ChurchMilitant.com, March 22, 2020
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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/the-catholic-church-and-immigration
Illegal Immigrant Caravans
and Criminal Catholics
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The latest, lawless migrant caravan hurtling from Honduras to our
southern border is as organic as AstroTurf.
The Central American trespassers now number between 2,500 and
4,000. Two weeks ago, slickly designed flyers disseminated on social media
beckoned them to sign up for the latest journey and meet at a bus stop in San
Pedro Sula. That village is caravan ground zero, where Honduras's destabilizing
Libre Party and its former top legislator-turned-agitator Bartolo Fuentes, have
brazenly spearheaded past caravan organizing campaigns since President Donald
Trump took office.
On Monday, the throngs reached the Mexico-Guatemala border, where
mobs of mostly young men threw rocks and sticks at police -- while sympathetic
international "journalists" selectively captured and curated tired
women and crying children on the trek with state-of-the-art cameras and livestreams.
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.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras may be the most recognizable name behind the
caravans, but global Catholic elites play a central role in the coordination of
this transnational human smuggling racket. Trump-bashing, American
sovereignty-trashing 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.
As I have reported on my investigations in "Open Borders
Inc.," the Catholic "Underground Railroad" of migrant safe
houses that extend across Central America, through Mexico, and up to and into
the U.S. is a well-oiled machine. The United Nations' International
Organization for Migration in Mexico has guaranteed supplies of medicine,
hygiene products, construction materials, as well as therapy services and legal
training, for caravan marchers who are housed at the Hermanos en el Camino
shelter, along with the Catholic-run Hogar de la Misericordia shelter and Jesus
el Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter. Funding comes not just from
Catholic parishioners, but also U.S. tax dollars. The La 72 shelter in
Tenosique is run by Franciscans. The El Caminante shelter in Palenque is
overseen by Catholic nuns. The Scalabrinians operate Casa del Migrante in
Tijuana and have managed an entire shelter ministry network since 1999.
On the southern border of Mexico in Chiapas, the city of Tapachula
is the first entry point for Central Americans headed to the U.S. There, the
Fray Matias de Cordova Human Rights Center provides "comprehensive
support" to illegal immigrant travelers including legal consultations,
monitoring of detention centers and "online resources, art and social
activities, job training, and basic social services." The group has
received nearly $200,000 from the liberal MacArthur Foundation.
Also in Tapachula, the Jesuit Refugee Service opens its churches
and pastoral centers to provide shelter, monetary aid, voluntary aid and
emergency assistance. Its team of lawyers, psychologists, social workers and
Jesuit clergy spread from Tapachula to Comalapa and Mexico City. JRS staff
served as sherpas for the 2018 caravan marchers and liaisons with the U.N. High
Commission for Refugees.
Jaime Calderon Calderon, the Catholic bishop of Tapachula, Mexico,
immediately pledged aid this month to the newest waves of border-jumpers and
river-crossers, openly acknowledging that he received a heads-up from other
bishops in the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador). But while
Calderon and the bishops blame "violence" for the most recent
invasion, homicide rates have either fluctuated or fallen significantly in
Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador since Barack Obama's executive amnesty
programs (DACA and DAPA) were announced in 2012.
Migrants themselves refute the "fleeing
violence" narrative: An International Organization for Migration poll of
more than 3,200 Guatemalan households in 2016, highlighted by the Center for
Immigration Studies' Kausha Luna, reported that 91% of migrants surveyed had
moved to the U.S. for economic reasons (jobs, homes, income boosts) -- while
only 0.3% blamed violence, 0.2% cited extortion and 0.2% attributed their
decision to gangs.
It's all about the dinero. Central American workers, legal and illegal,
sent back nearly $20 billion in remittances to their home countries in 2018, a
tidy sum of which will end up back in Catholic collection plates. Remittances
sent to El Salvador are now equal to 20% of its GDP; Guatemala, 11%; and
Honduras, 18.8%. Meanwhile, the percentage of the population of Guatemala now
living in the U.S. is close to 7%; for El Salvador, the percentage now stands
at 22%; and for Honduras, we now have absorbed 9.2% of their people.
This is a deliberately orchestrated, relentlessly
executed, slow-motion criminal invasion. If my
fellow Catholics continue to aid and abet these
illegal immigrant gravy trains without
consequences, American sovereignty doesn't have
a prayer.
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