CHA-CHING!: Catholic Church Gets Multi-Millions from US Govt for Helping Illegal Alien “Kids”

By Debbie Schlussel
If your Catholic priest is singing the virtues of illegal alien “kids” in America, it’s for good venal reason: the Catholic Church is getting at least $9 million from the U.S. government to help illegal alien “youths” stay in America for life. Cha-ching!







The Catholic Church in America has long been a proponent of illegal aliens, as it has been at the forefront of far-left “liberation theology” (something that faux-conservative Glenn Beck also espouses along with the illegal alien “kids”). And it pays off to purport to care about the poor illegals: it makes you rich! The U.S. government announced it will give the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network millions to pay for legal help for the illegal alien kiddies to stay here. But, don’t worry, these Catholic “charities” will take their cut.
Yes, you pay for the lawyers for illegal alien “youths” to fight the other lawyers you pay for (in the U.S. government) who are purporting to fight to deport them. And in the process you get to fund a church that you might not even be a member of. Only in America. I can just hear the imams bumming out that they, too, didn’t get in on the action.
The Obama Administration Santa Clauses are handing out the dough. And don’t forget that the Bush Administration Willy Wonkas lobbied for and signed the law that gave the golden ticket of entry to these illegal alien kids and made it nearly impossible to deport them. (Congress unanimously passed that law.) So, remind me again how Republicans and Democrats are different? They both screw us.

The Obama Administration announced Tuesday that it will pick up the bill for immigration attorneys who will be assigned to unaccompanied children from Central America and elsewhere who are stopped at the U.S. border. . . . The program starts today and will be funded with $9 million over the next two years. In all, the funds are estimated to be enough to pay for lawyers for more than 2,600 children. . . .
Federal law requires that custody of the children from non-contiguous states — in other words, those who are not from Mexico or Canada — be transferred from the border patrol to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours.

Yes, that fabulous law the Bushies bragged about lobbying for and passing and for which George W. Bush held a grinning, gushing signing ceremony!

But few of those children have the funds to pay for attorneys, and there is no right to public counsel for non-citizens in immigration hearings. The Catholic Church and other advocates for immigrants have urged lawyers to volunteer, and many have done so throughout the country. The $9 million in funding will pay for legal representation for about 1,222 children this year, and the balance in the coming year, spokesman Kenneth Wolfe said Tuesday.
The money will be added to existing grants for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Virginia-based U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Those organizations work with Catholic Charities and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, on the one hand, and the Immigrant Child Network, on the other.
Wolfe said those agencies in turn will draw down the money on a first-come, first-come basis as they represent children in immigration proceedings. The cities where the money will be available are Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Memphis, New Orleans, Phoenix, Dallas and the greater Washington, D.C. area, including Arlington, Va., and Baltimore.

America . . . we pay for our long-term suicide. Thank you, Catholic Church for helping us down that road.
If you are Catholic, you might wanna hold back the next time the collection plate is passed around in church. After all, you already gave in your taxes. And they took the money to help destroy your country slowly and painfully.