This is Kevin Appleby, the Bishops’ lobbyist. The Bishops also supported amnesty via the Gang of Eight bill. It would have provided them more paying “clients.”
Breitbart is reporting that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a campaign this week (January 3-9) to urge all Catholics to press Obama to admit 200,000 refugees in the coming year (100,000 would be mostly Muslim Syrians).
They make it sound like good Catholics (in parishes across America) are footing the bill by ‘sponsoring‘ refugees. Nothing could be further from the truth!
I just want to scream when I see these deceivers not tell the public how much federal tax dollars they get for their “migration” work.
Stealing from your wallet is not Christian charity.
Here is the news at Breitbart:
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is celebrating National Migration Week from January 3-9, urging Catholics throughout the country to support policies that “welcome the stranger among us.”
The bishops are urging “providing 100,000 annual resettlement slots for the most vulnerable refugees fleeing the Syria conflict,” and “designating an additional 100,000 refugees to be resettled in the U.S. from other countries.”
“Write…a letter to President Obama, urging him expand U.S. resettlement efforts of Syrian refugees who are fleeing unspeakable atrocities and violence,” the bishops urge as they also ask for donations to the Migrant Refugee Services’ (MRS) “Parishes Organized to Welcome Refugees” program which works to provide sponsorships of “newly-arriving Syrian and other refugees.”
Any money you put in the collection plate is a drop in the bucket compared to how much Washington is giving them for their ‘charitable’ work. And, you know that many Republicans are complicit in providing the massive funding going to the Bishops and other so-called ‘religious’ charities!
Now have a look at the USCCB Migration Fund annual report!
MRS Audited Financial Statement
(As of December 31, 2014)
REVENUE
Federal Grants/Agreements……………………………………………$79,590,512
CRS Collection………………………………………………………………..1,778,214
Travel Loan Collection Fees……………………………………………….3,401,622
Meeting Fees/Dues…………………………………………………………….147,526
Private Grants /Donations……………………………………………………582,655
Other………………………………………………………………………………..6,421
Total Revenue…………………………………………………………………….$85,506,950
That means that 97% of the Bishops funding for “migration” comes from the US taxpayer. (Those travel loan collection fees are your money too! When they wring the travel loan repayment from the impoverished refugees, they get to keep a cut rather than return it to the US Treasury).
Source: Ann Corcoran 2016
