{"id":1534048,"date":"2022-06-30T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534048"},"modified":"2022-06-30T17:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T21:20:20","slug":"as-dems-rage-against-catholic-church-biden-admin-pays-it-huge-bucks-to-care-for-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-dems-rage-against-catholic-church-biden-admin-pays-it-huge-bucks-to-care-for-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"As Dems Rage Against Catholic Church, Biden Admin Pays It Huge Bucks To Care For Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-dems-rage-against-catholic-church-biden-admin-pays-it-huge-bucks-to-care-for-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1534048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Democrats rage against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/catholic-church\">Catholic Church<\/a> for its pro-life advocacy, federal dollars flowing to Catholic groups have simultaneously skyrocketed, thanks to the Church\u2019s role in caring for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/border-crisis\">illegal immigrants<\/a> flooding across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Charities USA and its affiliates across the country have long provided care for refugees, unaccompanied minors, and impoverished immigrants, with funding from taxpayers. As President Joe Biden\u2019s soft-on-illegal-immigration policies have seen a monthly surge across the border roughly equal to <a href=\"https:\/\/grothman.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2993\">the population of Buffalo<\/a>, government agencies have relied on the religious group to provide shelter, transportation, and other services through dramatically increased federal grants.<\/p>\n<p>The feds have granted Catholic Charities $300 million so far in fiscal year 2022 for migrant services including \u201crefugee and entrant assistance\u201d and an \u201cunaccompanied alien children program,\u201d according to a Daily Wire analysis of federal spending data. The funds come primarily from the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of Refugee Resettlement, sometimes after first flowing through a state government. The fiscal year ends in September, meaning the year-end total is on pace to hit $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s four times what it was in 2010 and 2020. In between, the spending spiked \u2014 though not as high as now \u2014 as former President Barack Obama dealt with his own \u201cmigrant surge\u201d and flood of refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the church helped illegal immigrants, a cause shared by the Left, it has incurred the wrath of leftists following the June Supreme Court ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states\"><em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em><\/a>, which overturned <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, allowing states to restrict or even ban abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous churches have been vandalized or attacked in recent days. In West Virginia, the St. Colman Catholic Church, a historic site built in 1878, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-the-wake-of-roe-v-wade-attacks-on-churches-pregnancy-centers-escalate\">burned to the ground<\/a>. In Houston, the Saco Company Catholic Store, which sells religious apparel, also caught fire. Authorities in Virginia responded to a Catholic church and found smoke, an accelerant, and profane graffiti saying \u201cTHIS WON\u2019T STOP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Charities responded to the Supreme Court ruling by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholiccharitiesusa.org\/press_release\/ccusa-response-to-scotus-ruling-in-dobbs-v-jackson\/\">highlighting<\/a> that it also \u201cprovides social services to help women and girls during pregnancy and after the birth of a child. These social services include financial and material support; care and counseling during prenatal, postnatal and postpartum stages; adoption; and housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much of Catholic Charities\u2019 federally-funded immigration work was classified as \u201crefugee and entrant assistance,\u201d a category that includes illegal immigrants who are not refugees but have simply entered the country. For example, in October 2021 HHS used emergency authorization from Congress to set aside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_22ABTXRSSS_7590\/\">$73 million<\/a> over two years to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Worth, near the epicenter of the border crisis in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>It also obligated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_2201DCRVMG_7590\/\">$38 million<\/a> to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee and entrant assistance, some of which has been doled out in recent months to Catholic Charities groups in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Tennessee, and Utah.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Virginia\u2019s Commonwealth Catholic Charities received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_90ZU0325_7590\/\">$248,065<\/a> for \u201cFY22 Residential (Shelter) Services for Unaccompanied Children.\u201d In March, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_90ZU0355_7590\/\">$48,000<\/a> for \u201cFY22 MRS Safe Passages II\u201d under the category \u201cUnaccompanied Alien Children Program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a second factor leading to a sharply increased demand for Catholic social service providers was the bungled withdraw of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, followed by the airlifting of Afghan nationals who were classified as refugees into the U.S. In September 2021, the Department of State awarded the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/ASST_NON_SPRMCO21CA3291_1900\/\">$32 million<\/a> over one year to \u201cprovide initial relocation support services for Afghans paroled into the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Charities says it \u201cprovided resettlement services to almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholiccharitiesusa.org\/and-they-shall-know-us-by-our-love\/#group-section-FAQS-ABOUT-OUR-WORK-uJhc3UlfI1\">12,000<\/a> Afghan new arrivals in 36 states in 2021. Ukrainians also began to be resettled in early 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Charities did not return a request for comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s analysis looked at grants (not contracts) to Catholic Charities and its affiliates and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for work dealing with refugees, entrants, or unaccompanied minors. It included prime grants and subgrants, but excluded subgrants when they would be duplicative. The fiscal-year analysis looked at amounts that were paid, not the total obligated amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Democrats rage against the Catholic Church for its pro-life advocacy, federal dollars flowing to Catholic groups have ironically skyrocketed \u2014 because of the role the Church plays in caring for illegal immigrants who have flooded the country thanks to liberal policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1534051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}