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New Trump refugee policies could close more than 20 Catholic Charities resettlement offices
The American Magazine ^ | Jan 9, 2018 | Kevin Clarke

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.

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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...

(Excerpt) Read more at americamagazine.org ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: aliens; charity; fundingtheleft; morewinning; refugeeresettlement; refugees; religiousleft; trumprefugees; winning
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To: dforest

If this pope is so much in favor of taking in illegals, he should take them all in at the Vatican. I’m sure he has room.


41 posted on 01/28/2018 8:20:10 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Interesting perspective, although largely fictitious.

First off, Diocese schools don’t charge $15-$25k. More like $6k-$10k with high school costing a little more.

Second, please cite specific examples where US tax dollars are being directed to parochial schools. Now, parishes and schools can choose to subsidize students. But that’s a case of the school or church choosing to spend private funds. Their money, their business.


42 posted on 01/28/2018 8:21:18 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: Polyxene

The Pope has the perverts taking up all the space. No room for illegals.


43 posted on 01/28/2018 8:22:19 AM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m not tired of winning yet.


44 posted on 01/28/2018 8:23:01 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: kearnyirish2

Well, yes, those schools and hospitals are important for the good of society as a whole, but they are impediments in the view of the type of evil people who want them gone.


45 posted on 01/28/2018 8:24:07 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: Grampa Dave
This is a blatant violation of the separation of Church and State.

Actually, it's not.

Catholic Charities lost a landmark legal case a few years back in which they tried to get a religious exemption from some California birth control and/or abortion insurance mandate. They lost the case and in their subsequent appeal because the judges in the case laid out a very clear objective analysis that showed how they didn't come close to meeting any legal definition of a religious organization.

Calling an organization "Catholic Charities" and putting some fake nun out there as a spokesperson doesn't make it a religious organization. The fact that they get about two-thirds of their revenue from taxpayers was one of the key points the judges used in disqualifying them from any legal treatment as a religious group.

46 posted on 01/28/2018 8:24:11 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Logical me

There was some good work done following Viet Nam. But as it in some ways was our bad, there was greater responsibility for that one. Some collaboration may be appropriate from time to time, but when it becomes a modus operandi, or people with an agenda in the federal government using federal money to leverage private groups, things can get real messy.


47 posted on 01/28/2018 8:24:18 AM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: 11th_VA

Good. Catholic Charities is a terrible entity. I’m catholic and I’ve had personal interaction with them.


48 posted on 01/28/2018 8:28:51 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m not tired of winning yet.


49 posted on 01/28/2018 8:29:04 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: 11th_VA

The U.S. needs to get out of the refugee business!!! There are many other countries out there that can pick up the load.


50 posted on 01/28/2018 8:30:00 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Bigg Red

Definitely; they eliminated competition to the Almighty State - provider of all...


51 posted on 01/28/2018 8:30:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 11th_VA

Resettlement offices are money machines fueled by federal money. Ours.


52 posted on 01/28/2018 8:31:48 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: 11th_VA

If they really want to help they can help unemployed Americans get jobs, but they don’t.


53 posted on 01/28/2018 8:33:15 AM PST by I want the USA back (Doing more of what fails is the definition of liberalism and insanity.)
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To: 11th_VA

Dry the money up.


54 posted on 01/28/2018 8:38:00 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: 11th_VA

It’s not a real charity if the feds are footing the bill.


55 posted on 01/28/2018 8:50:34 AM PST by dangerdoc
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To: RKBA Democrat

The Catholic high schools in N California that we know about charge from 15 to 25 K per year.

One grandchild was graduated last year which cost 28k/ her last year. We have another in his junior year at the guy’s school and this year will cost his parents just under $30k.

The Catholic high school in our area was $22 k last year when we checked it for the parents of the current kid still in high school. It increased its cost per year, and many parents are doing home schooling due to the costs.

There are no/zero Diocese high schools in the counties around SF where our families live and we live.

Examples will come out later.

So predictable on Free Republic when one’s personal tax cash cow is slain by Trump, impacted Freepers rush to say that’s wrong.

Example of this were the Freepers moaning about Trump’s new tax plan.


56 posted on 01/28/2018 8:50:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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To: 11th_VA

Catholics are being paid to do this. Shut down the scam...


57 posted on 01/28/2018 8:57:34 AM PST by GOPJ (Republicans care about Americans. Democrats care about illegals, corrupt elites, and criminals.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Freepers moaning about Trump’s new tax plan.”

Folks around here tend to run long on talk about limited government and a Federal power that remains confined to the enumerated powers of The Constitution. But when actual moves in that direction eliminate perks and bennies they’ve enjoyed from the Feds all that big talk dries up in a real hurry.

You want righteous altruism: forego every vestige of Federal-level benefit of every kind in exchange for a truly Constitutionally confined Federal power.

If Americans would actually DO that, we’d find it isn’t altruism at all, but a life-giving level of liberty and freedom we’ve not tasted since the early 19th century.

But — no — people gotta grouse about what tax deduction they’re losing out on, or what program is shutting down over at their local library for loss of Federal funding. It’s just a never-ending fountain of the same idiotic hypocrisy the left constantly exhibits.


58 posted on 01/28/2018 9:11:04 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: HKMk23

Thanks for your excellent reply/summary!

“Freepers moaning about Trump’s new tax plan.”

Folks around here tend to run long on talk about limited government and a Federal power that remains confined to the enumerated powers of The Constitution. But when actual moves in that direction eliminate perks and bennies they’ve enjoyed from the Feds all that big talk dries up in a real hurry.

You want righteous altruism: forego every vestige of Federal-level benefit of every kind in exchange for a truly Constitutionally confined Federal power.

If Americans would actually DO that, we’d find it isn’t altruism at all, but a life-giving level of liberty and freedom we’ve not tasted since the early 19th century.

But — no — people gotta grouse about what tax deduction they’re losing out on, or what program is shutting down over at their local library for loss of Federal funding. It’s just a never-ending fountain of the same idiotic hypocrisy the left constantly exhibits.


59 posted on 01/28/2018 9:23:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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To: Grampa Dave

If ever an organization needed to be shut down......


60 posted on 01/28/2018 9:35:36 AM PST by Hartlyboy
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