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The Churches That Oppose Trump on Immigration are Raking in Millions to Bring In Migrants
PJ Media ^ | 02/02/2025 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/03/2025 10:32:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind

When Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde lectured President Trump and Vice President Vance about immigration during her sermon at the National Prayer Service on the day after they were inaugurated, leftists hailed Budde for standing on principle and giving the Bad Orange Man a good scolding.

As it turns out, however, Budde may have motivations that were a bit more tangible than principle: her church’s Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM) rakes in millions from a number of taxpayer-funded entities for bringing the migrants. And the Episcopal Church is by no means alone in this: other churches that have recently taken principled stances against Trump’s immigration policies are in on the gravy train as well.

The New York Post reported Friday that Budde’s “sermon to President Trump during an inaugural prayer service, coupled with her church’s advocacy for humanitarian immigration programs, reveals a striking hypocrisy — one that could be seen as self-serving and even a conflict of interest.”

This is because in 2023, EMM “earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.” If Trump stops the migrant influx and ends the funding for such programs, the Episcopal Church could suddenly be facing a significant shortfall of cash.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2023; aliens; church; churches; conflictofinterest; corruption; crime; emm; episcopalchurch; episcopalians; harboring; humantrafficking; illegals; immigration; ngos; obstruction; rebellion; sabotage; smuggling
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1 posted on 02/03/2025 10:32:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s time the “churches” start paying their fair share of taxes. Politics have taken the place of God.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 10:33:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang.- Hillary "The Wanderer" Clintoon.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Episcopal Migration Ministry (EMM) rakes in millions from a number of taxpayer-funded entities for bringing the migrants


End the subsidies!


3 posted on 02/03/2025 10:34:28 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SeekAndFind

That works out to be 14,722 dollars per individual reloacted. I smell fraud.


4 posted on 02/03/2025 10:35:41 AM PST by Skwor
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To: SeekAndFind

“EMM “earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.”

That’s almost $15,000 per individual to relocate them


5 posted on 02/03/2025 10:40:59 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Especially those huge mega churches and preachers like Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer and Kenneth Copland with his several bizjets ....


6 posted on 02/03/2025 10:42:47 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: SeekAndFind

What wretched hive of scum and villainy, church and state


7 posted on 02/03/2025 10:44:57 AM PST by delchiante
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To: SeekAndFind

Tax The Churches!


8 posted on 02/03/2025 10:45:34 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They throw all the free money into the air. What God wants, He takes. What falls to the ground, they greedily keep.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 10:46:31 AM PST by JPG (Be afraid DS, Kash is coming.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No doubt into the billions for the biggest hogs at the law-breaking trough.


10 posted on 02/03/2025 10:47:09 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

They WON’T BE FOR LONG!! GO TRUMP!! GO MUSK!!


11 posted on 02/03/2025 10:47:50 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That is over $14,700 for the church per “immigrant” the manage to get into the USA.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 10:49:09 AM PST by marktwain
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“””This is because in 2023, EMM “earned $53 million from various taxpayer-funded government programs to resettle 3,600 individuals.”””


The mainline churches have been losing members for 60 years.

These mainline churches still have many of their seminaries grinding out new theologians every year with the reality there are no churches to use their new preaching skills.

So instead the mainline churches create NGO’s that supposedly provide humanitarian aid and then go to Uncle Sam for grant money so the NGO’s can employ their newly minted seminary graduates.


13 posted on 02/03/2025 10:51:43 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: SeekAndFind

And this is why many would not vote for Trump. It wasn’t because of “moral” reasons like they claim, it was because of dollars...


14 posted on 02/03/2025 10:54:11 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: SeekAndFind

Human trafficking is big business. That a church does it does not make it anything other than human trafficking.


15 posted on 02/03/2025 10:55:05 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind

$14,722 per illegal. What a deal. I guess this is how the good pastor manages to afford a $2 million, six bedroom home in DC.


16 posted on 02/03/2025 10:56:32 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It needs to stop. Or restrict it to 100% US citizens.


17 posted on 02/03/2025 10:56:34 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: SeekAndFind; lightman

Lutheran Social Services is in on the grift, too!

(Apologies to members of the Missouri Synod and the newer conservative Lutheran churches. They are not to blame—just the ELCA!)


18 posted on 02/03/2025 11:01:23 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter; lightman

If only these theology students would use their faith and knowledge to become Orthodox. Then they could contribute to our expansion!


19 posted on 02/03/2025 11:04:21 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: SkyDancer

Don’t forget about John Pavlolitz, Al not so Sharpton and Bishop William Barber the buffet slayer.


20 posted on 02/03/2025 11:04:41 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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