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.
“We are working to welcome everyone,” Carcano told Goodlatte in response to his question about welcoming illegal aliens.
“That is very concerning to me,” the Republican replied, adding that the United Methodist Church (UMC) was “essentially aiding and abetting” illegal aliens.
“We do not ask people their immigration status when they are hungry,” said Carcano.
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.”
A massive surge of unaccompanied alien children began in 2014 when nearly 70,000 children — mostly from Central America — were apprehended at the southern U.S. border. Federal law requires that minors from countries that do not border the U.S. be placed into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services. From there, they are provided shelter until the agency can find a sponsor to take custody.
Organizations like UMC are contracted to provide shelter and care while the minors are awaiting that transfer. Many other religious organizations take part in the federal program.
The Obama administration has argued that Central American immigrants are fleeing violence in their home countries. But many Republicans have insisted that the Obama administration’s relaxed immigration policies have led illegal aliens to come to the U.S. based on the belief that they will be allowed to stay.
#1: sneakypete To: cranky, *Religious History and Issues*, *Crime and Corruption*, *Hypocrisy and Hypocrites*, *Border Invasion* (#0)
And that is just a rain drop into the river of taxpayer money that is enriching all these parasitic religions that are raping our Treasury while building their empires on the backs of illegals.
2 DECADES ago just ONE archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in San Francisco was receiving over 10 MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR from the city of San Francisco,the state of California,and the feral government to provide services for legal and illegal aliens. Everything from teaching them how to "game" the US welfare system,to buying them new clothes,signing them up for Medicaid,free houses,food stamps,welfare,English as a second language classes,to providing them with free transportation and translators to deal with authorities and go on shopping trips.
ONE church in ONE city,20 years ago. Think about that for a minute.
This was made public when the archdiocese protested a new law passed by the City of San Francisco that mandated ALL organizations that do business with the city comply with all city ordinances,including paying "same sex marriage benefits" to homosexual couples with one partner working for them.
The Catholic Church protested on the grounds it violated their religious principles,and they lost in court,where it was ruled they had to obey the same laws as everyone else drawing city money,and they were under no religious or moral obligation to charge fees for their services. If they wanted to provide these services using their own dime without any city money flowing into their coffers,they were free to ignore the requirement.
It took them a fraction of a second to realize the 10 million they pulled in each year was more important than their alleged "religious principles",so they caved and have been paying same sex benefits ever since.
HEY! All these fake charities are already tax exempt BECAUSE they are religious,so in that sense they are already being paid to help the needy. If they can't do this for free,they should lose their tax free charity status because they are NOT charities,they are businesses for hire.
sneakypete posted on 2016-04-20 10:17:14 Reply Private Reply
#2: paraclete To: cranky (#0)
I think that his reaponse should be concerning to everyone, it betrays a lack of concern. The US has sown the wind and reaped a whirlwind
paraclete posted on 2016-04-20 10:19:48 Reply Private Reply
#3: rlk To: cranky (#0)
The real answer,of course, is nothing. However miss reconquista uses to question to deliver a speach on how the U. S. is supposedly driving them North. None of these genetically impoverished primitive bastards were capable of developing anything for thousands of years to begin with and now they are mysteriously being driven North into a new Garden of Eden.
rlk posted on 2016-04-20 11:59:35 Reply Private Reply