Posted on 01/28/2018 7:39:24 AM PST by 11th_VA
After decades helping refugee families become Americans, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque announced on Dec. 18 that it was getting out of the business. Its 77-year-old refugee resettlement ministry was being shut down.
(snip)“We have received some indication that those agencies that are serving under 100 resettlement clients a year are at risk for being discontinued, of losing their federal contracts,” she said on Jan. 9. “So some of the agencies that are very small are threatened.”
(snip) Sister Markham emphasized that the closing of the refugee programs “is not a decision that Catholic Charities is making…this is being driven by the decisions being made by the [Trump] administration.
(Snip - More winning !!!)
Just 5,000 refugees were accepted into the United States during the first quarter of fiscal 2018, meaning as few as 20,000 refugees may be allowed into the country this year.
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Catholic Charities and other agencies involved in refugee services are not just agonizing over the loss of fat federal contracts. In fact, according to Sister Markham, Catholic Charities does not make a cent from its refugee programs.
Like most of Catholic Charities’ efforts, refugee resettlement is paid for through a combination of public and private resources, abetted by Catholic Charities own fundraising. Federal contracts pay about 70 percent of the costs for refugee resettlement, Sister Markham said, with Catholic Charities itself covering the final 30 percent, in effect, subsidizing U.S. policy on refugee assimilation.
But, facing the loss of all federal support, she does not believe individual Catholic Charities agencies with smaller client bases will be able to assume the entire cost of such programs. They will continue, however, to support refugees any way they can through other Catholic Charities programs like housing, food or other social assistance...
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Good.
My bet: They wanted to get out before any lawsuits made discovery an issue.
Shouldn’t be any refugees coming in. America is not a holding tank for the world. Glad to hear you are going out of the business.
Good, the Catholic Church has been assisting in the colonization of our country.
Great.
YAY! (I wonder how much Fed money Catholic Charities was getting for their ‘resettlement’ program)
Couldn’t come soon enough.
“Catholic Charities” is the Orwellian name for a truly evil organization, whose greed-driven treason threatens both Christians and Jews across America. They should lose their exempt status and be defunded to the last penny.
I'm sure the people who pay this tab are getting scr**** royally.
Enough to make the Catholic church speak out strongly in favor of immigration. That's all you need to know.
These phony rackets, couched in so-called “religion” cannot close fast enough for me. They are simply conduits to make massive amounts of money by selling legal status & eventual citizenship. I remember very well when the ELCA (Lutherans) started their assault on Minnesota in the mid 1990’s. Now we have Muslim police officers shooting innocent people; and the officer is allowed to clam up in the investigation of the shooting.
These charlatans should be outlawed at once, IMO.
Just more evidence here that Trump obviously wants amnesty without a guarantee for the wall and an end to 50 years of chain migration. /s
US Catholics spawned from Vatican II are damaging the country everywhere they can. From enabling the hoards of homeless and illegals, to soft pedaling perversion and challenging the church, to their swan song “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
When a sane Pope is appointed and the Church gets some leadership the tide will turn. Not until.
Who needs resettlement offices, Catholic or not, when there’s no “refugees” to resettle? Sounds like good news to me.
Good.
I'm sure the people who pay this tab (working folks like you and me) are getting scr**** royally.
While backing the Abortion Queen.
“Just 5,000 refugees were accepted into the United States during the first quarter of fiscal 2018, meaning as few as 20,000 refugees may be allowed into the country this year”
Winning!!!
“New Trump refugee policies could close more than 20 Catholic Charities resettlement offices”
I wonder why nobody reported it when Dem policies shut down Catholic schools and hospitals...here in NJ, where they had been developed for more than a century, they are practically gone. The schools were shut down when massive tax burdens were laid on the population for public schools, and the hospitals closed when the same government that required treatment for all regardless of means to pay continually reduced the reimbursement for the treatment. Those institutions were far more important than the current form of “Catholic Charities”, which seems to be more about political activism and fundraising propaganda than actual charity.
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