Posted on 12/30/2025 6:03:51 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fraught with challenges and setbacks. For many in these religious circles, the coming year could be worse.
The essence of their fears: President Donald Trump has become harsher with his contemptuous rhetoric and policy proposals, blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages and, in a social media post, demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”
Haitians who fled gang violence in their homeland, as well as Afghans allowed entry after assisting the U.S. in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover, now fear that their refuge in America may end due to get-tough policy changes. Somali Americans, notably in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, worry about their future after Trump referred to them as “garbage.”
After Trump’s slurs, the chair of the Catholic bishops conference’s subcommittee on racial justice urged public officials to refrain from dehumanizing language.
“Each child of God has value and dignity,” said the bishop of Austin, Texas, Daniel Garcia. “Language that denigrates a person or community based on his or her ethnicity or country of origin is incompatible with this truth.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
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Illegal immigrants.
EACH CHILD-—ETC:
EXPLAIN CHARLIE MANSON & ED GEIN & POL POT
The faith based NGO’S had it good for a while until the Somalian grifters couldn’t keep it on the down-low. Now the club is exposed with a public collective raw nerve exposed.
Intrinsic dignity does not excuse crime including the crime of illegal entry, but also all the fraud and other crimes committed once here.
Nor does someone’s humanity excuse those who set up systems of reward to draw people into these crimes and who ignore or abet the horrors of human trafficking rampant as millions poured across borders.
“For many in these religious circles, the coming year could be worse.”
Make it so! MAGA!
“US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead”
Thanks to the AP for sharing the wonderful news! May all the illegal aliens read it!
These “faith leaders” want the U.S. to be a dumping ground for every dead beat, parasite, and criminal the third world can send our way. Let them go onto the mission field if they want to minister to these people. They have no right to demand that these people be brought here.
“””US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead”””
“”””Among them was Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area, which serves the region around Washington, D.C., and lost 68% of its budget this year. The organization laid off two-thirds of its staff, shrinking from nearly 300 employees to 100.””””
These Leftist Faith Leaders could care less about the illegal aliens.
What they fear most is that Trump will stop absolutely all funding of their corrupt NGO’s and the one-third of staff not fired in 2025 will be let go in 2026.
““Each child of God has value and dignity”
So we decided to make a profit and steal your tax money while we’re at it by putting the children of God on welfare as soon as they get here.
Big Religion worships mammon and serves Deep State.
That's right Daniel, including the ones living here who have been raped, murdered and scammed by illegal criminal immigrants. Where is your compassion for them?
Bracing for lower bank account balances.
Bracing for lower bank account balances.
No more pesos in the tithe.
There is no such thing as a Somali AMERICAN. They are freeloading, Somali Afrikan thieves robbing, raping and killing AMERICANS.
I wasn’t aware we had US faith leaders.
Leftist nonsense.
Oh boo hoo hoo! The scammers are “targeted.”
DEPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS !!
From what I understand, there were so many immigrants in varying status that it would take almost forever to separate the “good” from the not-so-good.
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