Posted on 01/27/2025 8:04:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vice President J.D. Vance pushed back Sunday on CBS News against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) over their concerns about the Trump administration’s focus on conducting mass deportations.
In his first week in office, President Donald Trump honed in on the U.S. southern border and illegal immigration, a key part of his campaign promise that resonated with voters. On “Face the Nation,” Brennan highlighted how the USCCB had publicly released a statement disagreeing with “the treatment of immigrants and refugees,” asking the vice president if he supported Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service” or at a school.
“ Let me address this. Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they’re an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you have to go and get that person to protect the public’s safety,” Vance said. “That’s not unique to immigration, but let me just address this particular issue, Margaret, because as a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement.”
“I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We’re going to enforce immigration law. We’re gonna protect the American people,” Vance added.
In a statement released Wednesday, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) President Archbishop Timothy Broglio said he took issue with several of Trump’s executive orders, including those that “focused on the treatment of immigrants and refugees, foreign aid, expansion of the death penalty, and the environment,” claiming they would have “negative consequences” for the “most vulnerable.”
Vance went on to call out the USCCB, highlighting that their concerns should focus on the estimated 300,000 migrant children missing in the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration.
“Donald Trump promised to do that, and I believe the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide-open border of Joe Biden,” Vance continued.
“Let them talk about people like Laken Riley who were brutally murdered. I support us doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether they’re illegal immigrants or anybody else, in a way that keeps us safe,” Vance said.
Video footage that aired on Fox News Thursday showed ICE agents in Boston conducting raids and arresting illegal immigrants in the area. In one clip, a Haitian migrant, who, according to Fox’s Bill Melugin, is a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years, was seen being arrested.
The migrant could be heard yelling praises for former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama before claiming he wouldn’t return to Haiti. However, border czar Tom Homan later stated during an interview that the migrant was, in fact, going back to his home country.
Then the clergy whines that Americans aren’t religious. I am a believer but I find organized religion offers me very little these days.
I hope Trump moves against the corrupt NGOs engaging in this trafficking, including Catholic Relief Services.
These post Vatican II cretins in charge have already gravely damaged the Church by allowing homosexuals / pedophiles into the seminaries, and promoted their post-modern, liberation theology. Their leftist social-engineering, like aiding in immigration are just another corrupt scheme.
I hope this is the final stake through the heart that brings them down and allows truly faithful, conservative Bishops to rise.
My thoughts exactly.
‘Vice President Vance Tells Bishops Who Have Been Outspoken Against Trump Border Policies To ‘Look In Mirror’ Before Being Critical’
Well said, Vice President Vance.
There are too many woke bishops who replace religious beliefs with leftist political ideologies. They act like they’ve never even read the Bible.
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (DIDDLERS)
Hard to imagine Pence saying this.
An alternative ear listening to Rev. Budde’s sermon could conclude she is the plantation owner, advocating for slavery to do the labor. Really.
Maybe he will return to his senses and not remain a catholic much longer.
Stop funding Catholic charities
RE: Maybe he will return to his senses and not remain a catholic much longer.
I am not Catholic, but I don’t recommend leaving a denomination or a church simply because you disagree with a Bishop or Pastor on national policies.
The best reason to leave is because you no longer subscribe to important doctrinal tenets.
Receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line?
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It’s called hiding behind the cross for profit many do it like it or not some things you just have to face the facts.
Receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line?
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It’s called hiding behind the cross for profit many do it like it or not some things you just have to face the facts.
The just us brothers turn the lights out.
“...I don’t recommend leaving a denomination or a church simply because you disagree with a Bishop or Pastor on national policies....”
I agree. Jesus, a Jew, disagreed with his church leaders vehemently yet never left his church. He continued attending the synagogue and temple until they nailed him to a cross.
I admire those Christians who remain in the church pews as a witness to truth, even though their church leaders take positions contrary to Biblical teaching.
God created borders. There is a border to get into heaven.
Romans 13:1-3 states:
1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from GOD, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
It is clear that by not following the law and helping get these criminals into the country the Catholic church has broken their own covenant.
Pence would have answered that or any question with 1000 words of politician-speak.
President Trump....Please STOP giving money to the NGOs...ESPECIALLY Catholic Charities!
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