Border Bishops: The Catholic Church's Migrant Trafficking Operation
The Catholic Church is the largest immigrant resettlement program in the world, responsible for up to 30% of all refugees imported into the US
It’s turned into an efficient assembly line. Right before the checkpoint, a welcome center staffed by volunteers. They offer food, shelter, legal representation, and transportation. When ready, they’re taken to a point of entry. The checkpoint of course being completely swamped, prints off ticket #46,992,137 for their court date 37 years from today. They walk across the border, and into the very next building - another welcome center. Next stop: Nashville, San Diego, Richmond. Wherever they want. There’s offices like this in all 50 states, and you fund them. Not just through taxes, but also your Sunday offerings.
Because these aren’t government offices, they're churches.
The invasion at the southern border has developed into an untenable situation. Last year, the state of Texas became a minority White state for the first time in its history. By the end of this year, 10% of the population of the entire country will be illegal.
As tensions flare between state and federal governments with natives seeking to exert control over the situation, people are evidently starting to have enough. They see the impact free access to the country's wealth has on housing, competitive wages, and social cohesion. Someone is to blame for this, someone has to be held accountable and begin to mitigate for the damages.
This period of global migration is the largest in human history, so there is plenty of blame to dish out. Chief among the responsible is our governments, who are more than capable of turning any border into Passchendaele overnight, but refuse to do anything approaching this. Indeed, there are a number of secular NGOs and international institutions which have played a heavy hand. Interestingly, however, the single largest and most responsible operation has gone largely unblamed: simple, good-hearted, Christian charity.
In terms of individuals assisted in settling into the US, Christian churches make up the lion’s share with millions of migrants a year brought into the US through their networks on record. The Catholic Church alone is the largest (and possibly oldest) immigrant trafficking organization in history, and they claim this proudly. They have deep roots within the Western political system, including the International Catholic Migration Commission in Brussels, which has advocated for migrants directly to EU officials and European states since the end of WW2.
The extent of the operation is staggering. To be clear, no denomination is guiltless, but no combination of other denominations come close to the scale of operation that the Catholic Church achieves. For that reason, this article looks at the Church specifically.
“The Impact”
The Catholic Church is, obviously, a large and global organization. It is also the most involved non-profit in aid to Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Catholics are here providing humanitarian assistance. How they’re doing it, and to what extent, is quite shocking.
According to the Church-affiliated ICMC, the US Bishop’s (USCCB) Migrant and Refugee Services is responsible for the settling of up to 30% of all refugees who come to the US, and claims itself as the largest resettlement organization in the world. The USCCB partners with a number of different Catholic, generally Christian, and secular NGOs—all aligned on this mission. The USCCB program Justice For Migrants hosts an annual “National Migration Week”—coinciding with the Vatican’s “World Day of Migrants and Refugees”—which boasts in fliers: “Through this outreach, we are called to accompany migrants at all stages of their journey: from the point of origin, through transit, and to their final destination.”
The Church’s NGO network begins in the Vatican, reaching its tentacles out to various other Catholic organizations. In Vatican City, out of the Palazzo San Castillo, is the operational headquarters of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global network for all humanitarian aid. It is broken up into regional chapters, each assisting the other where necessary. Caritas North America is comprised of three subsidiary organizations: Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA), Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Development and Peace Canada (DPC). Each work in close cooperation with other regional branches on the issue of migration, particularly with the Latin America & Caribbean office.
Catholic Charities is by now a well-known culprit. It boasts assistance to an annual ~650,000 migrants on the record, each of whom received legal counsel, jobs, transportation, food & shelter, and contacts for further assistance inside the country. The Catholic Legal Immigrant Network (CLINIC) claims offering legal assistance to an additional 500,000 annually. Assuming no overlap, as many as over 1 million immigrants are receiving legal aid & transportation from the Catholic Church every year. 2023 saw 2.4 million encounters at the Southern border, so extending a 30% estimate from refugees to all illegal immigrants may be a fair guess. However like anything else involving immigration statistics, figures can’t be certain.
An array of services and lawfare is offered by the Church and its countless subgroups. Catholic Charities focuses on so-called “respite centers”, a well-mannered euphemism for migrant camps. The large tent cities you see on the news are not random, but in fact built and maintained by NGOs such as Catholic Charities. They operate on both sides of the border, where volunteers feed, wash, clothe, and bed these migrants—all done with an understanding that they are fulfilling a spiritual calling. After a rest, they meet individually and give legal counsel and a plane or bus ticket to the next center with instructions on who to meet and when. Have you wondered, “who paid for their transportation? Who pays for the hotels, the brand new clothes, and a pre-paid smartphone?” Chances are high that it was your church. It could have been the very bill your grandmother handed you to put in the offering bag.
It is, effectively, the largest human trafficking system in existence. And we're all paying for it. Geofencing data collected by Heritage Foundation shows how the efforts by religious NGOs such as Catholic Charities ensures that every square inch of the country is a “border state”:
CLINIC alternatively focuses on legal assistance to migrants, public advocacy, lawfare training, and lobbying. It is the US's largest network of immigrant activist programs, founded by the USCCB in 1989. Its website promises free services including direct legal representation, family reunification, and VISA acquisition. On top of this, it is also one of the most prominent immigrant lobbying groups in the country. CLINIC was personally responsible in stifling a number of Trump's immigration reform policies, including ending permanent residency for refugees and requiring refugees to prove “credible fear” in an interview with a federal official. Additionally, they offer counsel and training to legal groups on the state and local level. If there is a legal matter involving an immigration policy, CLINIC has its hands on it. As of writing, CLINIC is working on getting Temporary Protected Status and permanent residency for thousands of Palestinians and Congolese wishing to enter the US.
A 2022 FOIA request from Judicial Watch and CatholicVote (of the “trad catholic terrorism FBI manifesto” lawsuit fame), which to date has illegally gone unanswered, points to several anecdotal bits of evidence on how this operation works. It cites an interview with Sister Norma Pimentel of Rio Grande Catholic Charities in which she admits to purchasing plane tickets for undocumented migrants. In another instance, an undocumented family staying in a Dallas hotel told Border Patrol agents that CC Rio Grande was paying for their room, along with *every other room* in that hotel for the purpose of sheltering migrants. Worse, the agents knew about it - Border Patrol was the one giving the migrants to CC. Similar practices have evidently not stopped, as just last November Catholic Charities was found flying migrants to Chicago and housing them in the airport. In a 1 year span, CC sent over 20,000 illegals on 4,000 unique flights to Chicago.
Follow the Money
A report compiled by Complicit Clergy using public awards data shows that the USCCB & sub-affiliates received over $3 billion in federal immigration assistance grants, making it 3rd place nationally in total awards, just behind Southwest Key, who operates high-capacity border shelters, and BCFS - a Baptist non-profit. In relative terms, this is just a drop in the bucket for this network’s revenue. Catholic Charities did indeed receive a whopping $383 million in 2022 alone for immigrant aid, private donations alone inject a further $1B annually into its pockets.
Federal immigrant aid is a big business, with over $6 Billion going out to various bidders in 2022. Public data shows three obvious things: a central focus on Texas, a huge spike in funding during the Biden administration, and the primacy of the Catholic Church and its subsidiaries as a recipient.
Given the communication between Catholic NGOs and the federal government, there have been accusations in the past that the federal government is using these NGOs as a way to sneak money to the border. There may be an argument here - Catholic Charities relies on up to 30% of their revenue from taxpayer cash, and many of these grants are passed by Congress in “packages” which are sent to the border but specifically exclude actual border security. Efforts among the GOP elite have been made to bring Catholic Charities to heel, but to date, nothing has changed.
Regardless, the situation is abundantly clear. No organization receives, distributes, and spends more immigrant aid money in the US than the Catholic Church. No institution funnels more migrants into this country, assisting them at every part of their destination, than the Catholic Church. This is not a hidden conspiracy, but a claim boastfully printed on their own pamphlets, homilies, and reports.
Conclusion - What to do?
The above evidence shows rather conclusively that no organization is as destructive to American interests at the border than the Catholic Church. A number of theological, practical, or historical reasons can be debated as a cause to do so.
What’s interesting to note is that White Catholics don’t support this in the slightest. 61% of them, including women, supported Trump's border wall, roughly in-line with Whites across other religious categories. Polling indicates that White Catholic attitudes towards immigrants has plummeted in recent years, even as their bishops ramp up efforts to fill pews with more migrants. At the forefront in the fight against Catholic Charities has been other Catholic groups such as CatholicVote and Catholic Militant.
Like many other issues, we are dealing with an institutionalized “elite” which wishes to enact a policy of global social and economic uniformity, even if that comes with the loss of wellbeing on local, ethnic grounds. The uncomfortable reality is that the Church itself has long been a part of this global elite, tasking itself with pulling strings on the political sphere, and shaping the world to its will. Indeed, this is precisely the objective of lobbyist NGOs such as CLINIC.
Since the smoke signaled the transition of Bergoglio into Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has been at the forefront of globalist advocacy. My theory is that the Church believes, as was the case with Fascism in the 20th Century, that these policies of globalization and global migration are inevitable, and that the Church must controllably follow step with its people without violating too much of its history and dogma. Yet this may be too cynical; perhaps it is simpler to treat them as true believers.
The Pope is not at risk of losing his Church. Conversely, White Catholics risk losing their very identity and nations. Their rites, traditions, mores, and way of life are at risk of disintegration due to this pattern of global migration. If they want to survive, a choice may soon be forced between the two:
If the Church consigns your people to death, then what?
For now, a simple, practical solution you can write a senator about without going to jail: shut off the spigot. You can’t stop the Church from importing migrants, maybe not, but you can stop the federal government from funding them to do it. $3 Billion short, they might just think twice and stick to repairing churches and funding the arts. This seems like a far more effective strategy than blaming HIAS, who receives a tiny fraction of funding in comparison, and also shuts them off the source as well.
As far as White Catholics go, you’re still in the majority. But you’re also decreasing in number. That choice will come soon. For now, consider giving your donations a second thought.
Very interesting. Here in Oklahoma, there is a very large Burmese population that’s appeared in the state over the last fifteen years, and it’s mostly the Catholic Church that is responsible for bringing them here. Specifically, it’s some Catholic charity group based in Kansas (the perfidious Kansan is the enemy of all Oklahomans), so the people of Oklahoma never even got a choice in the matter. The Burmese just started showing up one day and are still coming in.
As a Catholic, this hurts to see. Excellent article.