Steven Richards
President’s border policy Joe Biden was the benefit of private religious charity organizations related to the Catholic Church, which jointly received billions of money in subsidies, while helping migrants and switch migrants, while the federal supervisory authority warned against improper funds and the potential of fraud.
The financing of those humanitarian programs that arose as a result of health and human services and internal security, as well as the Federal Crisis Management Agency, was renovated by President Trump and his administration, who are trying to reverse the years of financial incentives for the crisis of border intersections under their predecessor.
Catholic charity organizations USAconsisting of 168 local member agencies in the United States, is one of the largest private recipients of government financing within several immigration programs that critics allowed Biden administration to transfer and shelter migrants in the United States.
According to the data with Usaspending.govCatholic charity troops in the United States have collected over $ 2 billion in federal subsidies over the past four years of Biden administration, primarily through the Health and Social Welfare Department, which awarded programs about $ 1.93 billion per programs. Other agencies, such as the Department of Internal Safety and Housing and City Development, also struck significant – if they are smaller – SUMS, around $ 156 million and $ 138 millionappropriately.
The US Catholic charity organizations did not answer the request for comment from Only a message.
Subsidies for Catholic charity organizations throughout the United States
Many local auxiliary offices of Catholic charity organizations have received the flow of cash on the Biden administration. The money was assigned to settle migrants and other services. In many local chapters, these fresh funds covered previous subsidies, which have been awarded in previous years.
For example, equipment related to Catholic charity organizations for the diocese of Fort Worth in Texas has experienced more than 34 -time boost in financing From government subsidies from the budget year 2021 to the budget year of 2023 in the 2021 budget year, at the beginning of the Biden administration, the group received only $ 11.7 million per grant. Up to budget year 2023, this amount increased to $ 401.7 million. According to financial documentation, most of these funds were allocated to the program “Refugee and Untand Assistance”.
Catholic charity organizations Fort Worth offers comprehensive immigration services, including legal support for immigrant defense against proceedings from the United States, according to the group, according to the group Immigration Services Website.
“Having a legal representation is the most important factor in the effective win of the removal case,” we read the website. “Catholic charity organizations provide high quality, inexpensive and effective representation to ensure the safety of families and maintain them together.”
Other local offices have experienced a comparable influx of cash focused on helping refugees and migrants.
For example, Catholic charity organizations in Louisville, Kentucky also experienced A similar boost in financing at the same time. In the 2021 budget year, the group took about $ 10 million in federal subsidies, but to a budget year 2023 this number exploded to around $ 122 million. This chapter also offers similar immigration servicesincluding legal support against deportation.
FEMA enters the immigration company
According to Biden administration, the Federal Crisis Management Agency has become one of the cables to ensure taxpayers’ funds for local organizations for immigration services. The agency has stood control from Republicans who claims that the provision of migrants is not outside the scope of disaster management agencies.
The criticism of the agency’s shelter and services reached Zenith last year after Biden Homeland Security Secretary of Security of Aleorkas Breeding Breeding told Congress that FEMA has no additional funds to facilitate southern countries, such as Florida and North Karolina in regeneration with double hurricanes Last year to immigration services.
During the last stern budget crisis in Washington Democratów redirected money and legal authority In order to introduce the National Agency for Help for Disaster in the activities of the care of millions of illegal immigrants who crossed the border with the Biden-Harris administration observer, Only a message Reported last year. At that time, the White House laughed at the claims as another “right -wing Conspiration theory. “
New shelter and services program First established by the Democratic Congress in 2022. “It would support shelter and related actions provided by non -Federal entities, including facility improvements and construction, in order to dismiss with overcrowding in short -term customs and protect American borders,” in accordance with Congressional Research Service.
The general inspector increases the potential of fraud and the wrong apply of funds
The Office of the General Internal Security Department argued that financing redirected from FEM to local non-profit organizations for immigration services was mature for improper apply or potential fraud.
Oig found “Local recipient organizations” did not always apply financing in accordance with federal guidelines, and in some cases they did not “provide the required bills or documentation for reported returns.” The supervisory probe also showed that some local organizations “were not able to provide support documentation for families and people who provide services”, and some families or people “did not have a DHS record”.
“These issues took place because FEMA did not provide sufficient supervision over funds and instead consisted of local management boards and fiscal agents in order to enforce the guidelines for financing and application” – summed up the Inspector General. “As a result, FEMA, as the chairman of the National Board, cannot ensure that humanitarian aid funds were used as intended for financing and application.”
“When you look at the way some of these charity organizations have applied for money, through the FEMA emergency disaster program, through the refugee resettement office, and then realizing that they are HHS and DHS and the office of reettimeter of refugees that lost tracking. 300,000 children and still get money, “said Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.John Solomon reports“Podcast.
“Completely satisfying failure and incompetence, and what we need to do is to realize that especially when it comes to fema, we have people in Tennessee and North Carolina, who never expected that the hurricane would end in the great smoky mountains, which did it With Hurricane Helene and that they will be pushed out of their mountain houses because of the flood, and FEMA slowly responded, and these are people who want to get help and support, “she continued.
Some Catholic charity organizations accused of improper apply of FEMA funds
Catholic charity organizations of San Antonio, which received a total of over $ 27 million from FEM, was accused by a democratic Congressman of improper apply of funds he received for the program, buying tickets for plane for migrants under his care.
Democratic representative of Henry Cuellar, then member of the subcommittee and a member of Security House Houseland Security Arthicitions, who helped create a program, and Republican Monica de la Cruz, a Republican, a Republican, Border report That the program never aimed to support traveling over long distances, but rather things such as food and shelter.
“When I started this program for the first time, I said that it would be used only for food and shelter, maybe transport in the city, but not send them there. Family or someone should pay for it, not taxpayers’ dollars, “Cuellar He told about the mouth in April last year.
However, Catholic charity organizations San Antonio He said that nothing in the FEMA rules prevented them from buying aircraft tickets For migrants under their care and confirmed that his organization helped migrants travel outside the city, but did not buy any aircraft tickets from the end of 2023.
“Funds for the supply of food, clothing, all these activities, including transport,” said Jose Antonio Fernandez, CEO of the chapter National Catholic Register.
“It’s not my interpretation, it’s a fact; Many companies in the US provide transport because it is allowed – he said. “If you contact FEM, they will tell you that yes, you can actually provide transport.”
Pope Francis criticizes the administrative policy of Trump
Pope Francis on Tuesday He wrote a letter to Catholic bishops in America This called the policy of the “mass deportation” of Trump’s administration “a serious crisis”.
“The right conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express his dispute with all measure or clearly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with crime,” said the Pope. “At the same time, the law of the nation to defend and ensure the community before those who committed violent or stern crimes in the country or before arriving.
“To say, the act of deporting people who in many cases left their own land because of the extreme poverty, uncertainty, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, harm the dignity of many men and women and the whole family, and the whole family, the whole family, the whole family, and the whole Families, both the whole family and the whole family and place them in a state of special sensitivity and vulnerability, “continued the Pope and called the bishops to continue working with” migrants and refugees “.
The Pope’s position on mass deportations caused Catholics in Trump’s administration. Tom Homan, the border of the administration, is a Catholic and has He argued that facilitating illegal immigration causes more harm than goodReferring to the incidents of sexual assault, human trafficking, and even death on travel to America through Mexico.
When asked about prior criticism of Pope Francis regarding administration policy, Homan firedSaying, “he should stick to the Catholic Church and fix it. This is a mess ”in an interview with Newsmax.
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Steven Richards is only a news reporter.
