Posted on 07/31/2021 8:13:38 AM PDT by Marchmain
Catholic leaders in the busiest part of Texas for U.S.-Mexico border crossings fear a new executive order from Governor Greg Abbott, which bars non-government vehicles from transporting migrants in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19, could have precisely the opposite effect.
“It’s definitely going to have very serious consequences and keep us from helping the community stay safe, because we’re not able to help these families [that test positive for COVID-19] isolate and quarantine,” Sister Norma Pimentel, the executive director of Catholic Charities...
“I foresee things getting very bad because of this,” Pimentel said.
The Humanitarian Respite Center, run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, is often the first place U.S. Customs and Border Protection brings migrant families that cross the border.
Before migrants enter the respite center, they’re tested for COVID-19 nearby. Those who test negative go to the respite center where they are provided food, clothes, medicine, rest and other essentials before they continue on to the next leg of their journey.
Migrants who test positive are brought to certain hotels in the area CCRGV has arranged to quarantine until they test negative. In that circumstance, there are doctors and nurses that check on them regularly, and volunteers that drop off any essentials the families need so that “the family remains in isolation and not out in the community,” Pimentel said.
Now that Abbott’s executive order potentially prevents the respite center from bringing COVID-19 positive migrants to the designated quarantine locations, Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville says, “They risk infecting other people,” which is “why it’s counterproductive.”
The executive order, signed by Abbott July 28, mandates that only federal, state, and local law enforcement officials are permitted to provide ground transportation to migrants that are detained by CBP at the border.
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In 2010, Catholic Charities had revenues of $4.7 billion, $2.9 billion of which came from the US government.
What do you mean church properties? Do you understand CC is a separate organization? There have been many cases of individual parishes deciding to house families, immigrants, and even criminals. Should the ill be thrust upon normal, average people going to church?
NGOs need to go.
Your post is a perfect example of “Depends Catholics”.
You have the largest number of members in the whole world. That you are so proud to claim. Except when the lights are shown on the Pelosi politicians, abortion lovers, pedophile priests, rogue popes, rogue side show organizations, homosexuality in the church, vile baptized catholics such as Hitler, vatican miscreants, rat lines, vatican money laundering, ties with the mafia, pornography, communist priest groups, ties and concordants with every communist/socialist country that has ever existed, etc., etc. THEN by you pull up your “depends...” and start making excuses for “THOSE people”. “Those People” are baptized Catholics. It’s a big tent religion. And like it or not, you’re all lumped together into one great big RCC. If you can’t stand the stench, stop wearing the Catholic “depends..”
Take responsibility for yourself and leave the abomination.
LOL!!
Me to Pimentel: F.O.
Surprise! Leftist, democrat party catholics making a mess of things again.
This nation needs a national exorcist for these devils calling themselves ‘father’!!!!
In 2010, Catholic Charities had revenues of $4.7 billion, $2.9 billion of which came from the US government.
In 2010, Catholic Charities had revenues of $4.7 billion, $2.9 billion of which came from the US government.
Wikipedia? How about a reliable source?
Screw these ‘’Catholics’’. They’re Marxists.
Well, we wouldn’t want to interfere with Catholic Charities’ raking in millions of bucks for housing these criminal invaders, would we?
AP NEWS
AP: Catholic Church lobbied for taxpayer funds, got $1.4B By REESE DUNKLIN and MICHAEL REZENDESJuly 10, 2020 GMT 1 of 7
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups. The church’s haul may have reached -- or even exceeded -- $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.
I'm guessing these billions are 'payback' for spreading smallpox blankets around conservative areas of the country for democrat/commies. Maybe Homeland should share WITH THE PEOPLE - EXACTLY WHERE THEY'RE DUMPING COVID INFECTED ILLEGALS.
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