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This Baptist Charity Is Being Paid Hundreds of Millions to Shelter Child Migrants
Time ^ | August 4th, 2014 | Alex Altman @aaltman82 and Elizabeth Dias @elizabethjdias

Posted on 08/05/2014 11:08:44 AM PDT by Mariner

Contractors have taken on the huge task of sheltering thousands of unaccompanied child migrants

In the late afternoon of July 9, Air Force One touched down at Love Field in Dallas. President Barack Obama ducked into a private room at the airport for a discussion about the crisis of undocumented children crossing the southwest border. Assembled around a wooden table were top Texas officials, including Governor Rick Perry and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, as well as the leaders of several faith-based charities. One of them was a man so anonymous, the White House pool report misspelled his name.

Kevin Dinnin is the CEO of a faith-based, nonprofit organization called BCFS, formerly known as Baptist Child and Family Services. This obscure charity has emerged as one of the biggest players in the federal government’s response to the influx of more than 57,000 unaccompanied children who have trudged across the southern border so far this year. It runs two of the largest facilities for temporarily housing immigrant children, as well as six permanent shelters in California and Texas. Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants to operate these shelters, according to government records. On July 7, two days before Dinnin met Obama in Dallas, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded BCFS $190,707,505 in a single grant.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; baptist; baptists; bcfs; childillegals; domesticenemies; illegals
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To: Mariner

Cross the border and build your havens for UIC in Mexico. Don’t bring them into the USA!!


101 posted on 08/05/2014 4:23:55 PM PDT by jch10 (WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE COYOTE IN CHIEF?)
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To: Mariner

When handed lemons make lemonade.....may as well show these kids the love of Jesus and give them a bit of protection against the liberal brainwashing they will soon be subjected to.

Realistically, nobody will have the political will and cojones to send them home. Would be kind of funny if a bunch of Ohomo’s undocumented democrats turned into conservative Christians, wouldn’t it?


102 posted on 08/05/2014 4:35:51 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Aria

Yeah, I thought this had already been debunked on FR and shown that this “Baptist” organization had nothing to do with “Baptists” or any church whatsoever.


103 posted on 08/05/2014 5:05:12 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: Mariner
must be that separation of church and state i keep hearing so much about...
104 posted on 08/05/2014 6:01:43 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: DannyTN

Better watch those youth ministers—after the government pays out the payola, they’ll be bringing in the lawyers. Win. Win.


105 posted on 08/05/2014 6:16:08 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: DannyTN
I'll blame anyone I &&U* PLEASE to blame.

Who's paying YOU?

106 posted on 08/05/2014 6:17:23 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Repeat Offender
It has been.

But it is always instructive to observe those who refuse to learn the facts for themselves, and/or those who continue to spread thoroughly debunked lies.

It makes the annual zot purges of trolls and useless idiots much more fun, to those who pay attention!

107 posted on 08/05/2014 6:35:42 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: Mariner
Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants Our Tax Money! to operate these shelters, according to government records.
108 posted on 08/05/2014 6:48:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mariner
Since December, BCFS has received more than $280 million in federal grants...

Do 'grants' have to be approved by Congress; or has the grantor received a LARGE wad of money at the getgo and then parcels it out as it sees fit??

109 posted on 08/05/2014 6:49:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DannyTN
Blame government who is allowing the kids in.

No; blame US for allowing this to happen and CONTINUE to happen!

110 posted on 08/05/2014 6:50:54 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Travis McGee

6K is pretty good bribery money!


111 posted on 08/05/2014 6:52:22 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Grampa Dave

it says “up to”...


112 posted on 08/05/2014 6:53:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Grampa Dave

Look up “Child Care” in your state and see how much ‘providers’ get paid per child!

Google® CCDF


113 posted on 08/05/2014 6:54:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; All

Do ‘grants’ have to be approved by Congress; or has the grantor received a LARGE wad of money at the getgo and then parcels it out as it sees fit??


That’s what I’ve been wondering....if anyone has an answer, please ping. Thanks.


114 posted on 08/05/2014 6:55:38 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: TheThirdRuffian
They are playing on good Christians like you by using the name “Baptist” and doing some marginal charitable work.

I wonder why they didn't use MORMON??




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115 posted on 08/05/2014 6:56:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

6K is pretty good bribery money!


It costs a lot...to live in Hawaii or the Virgin Islands, ya know.


116 posted on 08/05/2014 6:57:22 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Elsie

I recall a senator some years ago say that congressional committees didn’t even look at amounts less than .1 billion dollars. That’s $100 million!

Since no single grant was that large, only a very few really interested congressmen would ever notice.

There are very, very few prosecutions or even admissions of misspent grant money.


117 posted on 08/05/2014 6:59:20 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Mariner
Is this conclusive proof that a major faith-based organization in the USA has decided to betray Americans and become their enemy...simply to line their own pockets with free government money? BCFS = Baptist Children's and Family Services

How about the Catholic Church?

....there was a town hall meeting last evening, emergency meeting called by our local parish priest, ordered by our bishop (unintelligible) and the Archdiocese of San Bernardino. They have made the decision that they're going to absorb the immigrants that are coming through because the federal government called the bishop's office on Monday and they're gonna be busing these immigrants to our communities and asking us to open our homes and to house them for up to a month. The church will reimburse us for any out-of-pocket expenses....
-- from the thread Stunning: California Couple Says They Were Asked to House Immigrant Children

118 posted on 08/05/2014 7:04:22 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Mariner
Is this conclusive proof that a major faith-based organization in the USA has decided to betray Americans and become their enemy...simply to line their own pockets with free government money?

I believe BCFS no longer has anything to do with the Baptist faith.

As a charity, it appears to be about 99.4% dependent upon government grants.

In other words, it's simply a part of the non-profit network that services the liberal agenda.

119 posted on 08/05/2014 7:19:37 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: trisham

Follow the money. . .

They are just helping bring in the last day plagues and they purposely do not preach end times to their congregations. Ear tickling goes along way in these churches that support such disregard for this country. This was pre-arranged for chaos!


120 posted on 08/05/2014 9:07:57 PM PDT by Maudeen ("End Times Warrior - Sinner Saved by Grace")
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