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. And there are a number of secular NGOs and international institutions which have played a heavy hand. But interestingly, the single largest and most responsible operation remains largely unblamed: simple, good-hearted, Christian charity.
In terms of individuals assisted in settling into the US, Christian churches make up the lions share with millions of migrants a year brought into the US *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 Comission 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. The Baptist and Lutheran churches each destabilize the border (and other issues), but neither combined come close to the scale of operation that the Catholic Church achieves. For that reason, this article looks at Catholicism 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 Carribean. 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 are 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. USCCB affiliate Catholic Charities 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 much 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. Like anything involving non-profits and immigration, 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”, also known as migrant camps. The large tent cities you see on the news are not random but in fact built and maintained by NGOs such as CC. They operate on *both* sides of the border. Once across, they feed, wash, clothe, and bed migrants. 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?” Chances are high that it was your church. Maybe even the very check your grandmother asked you to put in.
It is, effectively, one of the largest human trafficking systems 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 bit 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 “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 & subafiliates received over $3 Billion in federal immigration assistance grants, making it 3rd place nationally in total awards, just behind Southwest Key, who runs the border shelters, and BCFS - a Baptist non-profit.
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 via Biden Admin, 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 - NGOs such as Catholic Charities are funded majorily by 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, it’s pretty clear. No organization receives, distributes, and spends more immigrant aid money in the US than the Catholic Church. Were we to compile a broad “Christian” category, the results might get scary.
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, there exists a global elite which wishes to enact a policy of 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 the global elite, tasking itself with pulling strings on the political sphere, shaping the world to its will.
And the will in question is precisely the problem. 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.
But the Pope isn’t at risk of losing his Church. Conversely, White Catholics risk losing their very identity and blood. 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, give 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.