Between September 2010 and September 2013, the Catholic Charities of Dallas received $823,658 from the Department of Homeland Security for “Citizenship Education Training” for “refugee and entrant assistance.”
These middle two (and far far less expensive) outlays should probably be dropped from the argument: The US government has funded these programs for decades. My wife taught ESL in these programs back in the 1990's for Bosnian, Vietnamese, Cuban and assorted other refugees. They were given four months of assistance, contingent upon daily (all day) attendance at English class instruction, after which they were NOT eligible for unemployment and were required to find a job. Almost all of her students did very well, many of them are now upper middle class and investing in all kinds of enterprises.
The far more massive "unaccompanied minors " items are definitely suspicious.
Just because something has gone on for a long time does not make it right or wrong.
Wrong things can go on for decades.
All these alien programs are wrong, even if for refugees.
The programs you describe sound good, no doubt your wife’s intentions were wonderful.
However, there is no difference between those programs and what is going on today other than a matter of details of policy and procedure.
The determination of which aliens to accept is subjective, since there is not (yet) a complete open door policy of open citizenship.
How these programs are inevitably used (and arguably their true intent) is to establish a cadre of US-trained minions who will, in the future, work to further the ends of globalism, which nominally is described in US policy as “US interests”. If 1,000 aliens are brought to American and educated and socialized, even if only 50 of them wind up being useful to US or US-led organizations in the worlds of finance, academia, diplomacy, espionage, etc., the programs would be a great success for globalism, as those individuals could return to their home countries and be reliable assets in furthering US interests, or become activists here in America for “causes” in their homeland that the US wishes to promulgate here.
Such manipulations are not work for the Church according to Scripture.
If the Church wishes to help these people, it should help them IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
Otherwise, the Church is aiding and abetting the subversion of US national sovereignty and the criminal action of them entering the US illegally.
The Church should NEVER recommend or condone breaking civil laws, unless those laws are contrary to Scripture. Even if a CORRUPT HEATHEN government PAYS THEM TO HELP PEOPLE BREAK THE CIVIL LAWS. And there’s nothing in the Bible mandating that a nation accept and reward illegal aliens. Meanwhile, the civil laws accept all kinds of murder, theft, blasphemy, sodomy, etc., as being legal, and make it illegal to oppose such laws - and does the same Church recommend or condone breaking those laws ? No. Why ? The government does not pay them to recommend or condone breaking those civil laws.
Far too many so-called missionaries - both Protestant and Roman Catholic - are in fact working to further then ends of geopolitical power-grabbing. Though many may not really even understand how they are being used, many do realize and thus are more political activist than Christian.