Posted on 04/19/2016 7:30:30 PM PDT by smartyaz
A Methodist bishop whose church receives millions of dollars in federal grants each year to house unaccompanied alien children asserted in a House hearing on Tuesday that the U.S. has “raped” immigrants’ home countries.
“What is your church doing to discourage people from coming to the United States illegally and staying in the United States illegally?” Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte asked Bishop Minerva Carcano during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Carcano heads the California-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church, which supports comprehensive immigration reform. The church’s Board of Child Care has received at least $7.6 million in federal grants in the last three years to provide shelter services for unaccompanied alien children who are apprehended crossing into the U.S. illegally.
That’s when the bishop — the first Hispanic woman elected to her position at UMC — launched into an attack on U.S. foreign policy, blaming it for a situation that has forced Central Americans to flee their homes.
“Immigrants want to stay home,” she said. “They’re not able to stay home because we’ve undermined their economies. We have raped their lands.”
“I would restate that most immigrants want to stay home. But they can’t feed their families,” she continued, adding that the U.S.’s involvement in Central America has harmed their economies “in disastrous ways.”
“We’ve been involved in their politics in ways that have undermined their countries and left their societies in shambles.”
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I would have asked him if he likes little boys.
You didn’t notice that Bishop Minerva isn’t a “he”?
The bishop has no idea what she is talking about.
No
There is something wrong with the flash on this laptop today. I can see text but photo’s don’t load. I should read more carefully
Spain’s kinda broke right now.
So are we, but the dollars haven’t stopped just yet.
Defund the program.
Now.
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Well, at least we had the courtesy of giving them a reach around when we did.
Want to cut government spending? Here’s some low hanging fruit!
Right; a she-bishop “playing Christian”. Is there any trace of Christianity left for Methodists, or is this just some offshoot sect?
Let’s be honest.
The US did rape Central America. Our federal government screwed hardcore with almost every nation in this hemisphere south of Canada.
And not just in the distant past, either - look up what Hillary Clinton did to Honduras, one of her lesser-known foreign policy “accomplishments”.
Talk to someone from a place like El Salvador - why did they come here? They came here because our government’s dirty wars turned their nation into an unlivable hellhole.
Probably the biggest thing was exporting our War on Drugs, which empowered narcocartels to destabilize quite a number of Central and South American nations.
We wrecked the nations of this hemisphere in the past the same way we’re presently wrecking the nations of the Middle East and North Africa. And shock and surprise, the result is immigration from those nations here.
The first thing to do is stop creating these massive migratory pressures by stopping all the messing about in other nations’ affairs. It’s not like we don’t have some serious cleaning house to do right here at home.
Don’t cry to me, Argentina...
Idiot. Plain and simple. Idiot.
It’s like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: every attempt to right a prior mistake makes matters even worse...
No, this is UMC, one of the mainline (some now call them the “sideline”) churches.
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