Category: Other Immigration

Does taking money from Caesar violate the tenets of the Catholic Church?

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Or is it only a kind of smorgasbord of tenets that Catholics involved in immigration can pick and choose from?  Today I came across a post at Friends of Refugees about Catholic Charities in Washington, DC requiring employees to agree to adhere to the tenets of the church in order to participate in whatever quasi-charitable* programs they are operating.  By the way, I am assuming it is this Catholic Charities office that received a cool half million of your tax dollars in FY09 and that requires the oath. 

While you are at USA Spending.gov, go here and see all of the Catholic Charities offices your tax dollars are funding!

Taking from Caesar (and you)!

This is the question I’m hung up on lately (see Bishops lying to Catholics here)—where in the teaching of the Catholic Church does it say that Catholics have the right to take money from governments (isn’t it a form of stealing when taking money for political causes or for any charity from unwilling taxpayers!) or from organizations and funding sources that promote policies that are clearly against Catholic teaching.

Back to that March on America this coming Sunday! 

Here we have US Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbyist telling a conference in New Mexico that they are behind the march.  (I’ve already told you that 95% of the USCCB money for refugees comes from you, the federal taxpayer). 

Last night just cruising around I came upon this website where the statement is made that the USCCB is not “sponsoring” the march, just providing Cardinal Mahony to say Mass before the march.   See Mahony to say Mass, here.

The march, whose formal name is “March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith,” is sponsored by 35 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim organizations. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and its immigration reform campaign (Justice for Immigrants) are not among the sponsors, though Justice for Immigrants has organized Cardinal Mahony’s Mass and is clearly supportive of the march.  [Ha! Ha! someone probably told them its illegal to take all that federal money then sponsor demonstrations with it!]

The evil troika!

But, even more disgusting perhaps (if that is possible) then taking your money for their political causes, is that they, the USCCB, is working hand in glove with the George Soros/Drummond Pike/Wade Rathke atheists and one-worlders and uber-Leftists at the Tides Foundation.  (Search RRW for the Tides Foundation, I’ve written a lot about it).

Those Catholic sites send unsuspecting Catholics here, to find DC housing and bus transportation to the march.  Scroll down the page until you get to “Partners.”    Do you see the link for Reform Immigration for America, here.  This group is a front group for the Tides Advocacy Fund.  Tides launders money from secret sources and sets up phoney-baloney grassroots groups advocating far left (Marxist/socialist) causes.  From Reform Immigration for America’s “about” page:

The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America is a united national effort that brings together individuals and grassroots organizations with the mission to build support for workable comprehensive immigration reform. The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America is, in part, a project of the Tides Advocacy Fund.

It’s a very sad day for the Catholic Church (and for us Catholics).  What a joke!  They demand an oath to support the tenets of the church from some poor schlub who works in a DC Catholic Charities while the Bishops literally steal from taxpayers and work with international socialists to destroy America.

* I’m calling it quasi-charitable because they are taking other people’s money for their charity!  It is called the re-distribution of wealth!  Indeed, Christianity expects us to be charitable, but with our own money given freely!

Update:  I just heard that Glenn Beck said on his radio show today that everyone should look for the code words “social justice” or “economic justice” on their church’s website and if it’s there, they should run like hell from that church!

 

Center for Immigration Studies releases its investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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The critical report entitled, “Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors” can be found here.   Read the whole fascinating expose.  I mentioned it here last week.

Readers in Frederick, MD, Ft. Wayne, IN, Boise, ID, and Manchester, NH should know that the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence scheduled to visit your cities to demonstrate what a bunch of haters you are is affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center and uses similar tactics to silence those who seek a discussion about curtailing immigration.   I had to laugh just now, I went back to the CPHV site and learned that since I wrote my post on their plans, that they had removed their site (and changed their name)!   Here they report they are working on a new one.  Betcha a buck that any connection to the SPLC will not appear on the new site!

Tea Parties and Amnesty: Let’s be clear!

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Readers should know that some inside the beltway Open Border Republicans have been working very hard to steer the Tea Party agenda away from any position on so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform (amnesty).  But, today, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies in a post at National Review Online pops a festering boil by making it very clear that Dick Armey (Freedom Works) and Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform) are indeed advocates for Amnesty when really the majority of  Tea Party grassroots cut their political eye-teeth in the summer of 2007 opposing the McCain/Kennedy/Bush legislation that would have created a “pathway” to citizenship for aliens who entered the US illegally.  Hat tip:  Richard Falknor, Blue Ridge Forum.

Here is Krikorian:

Dick Armey, the putative tribune of the Tea Partiers, has had sense enough up until now to keep his pro-amnesty, open-borders views to himself while helping rally grassroots opposition to the metastasizing state — though he and Grover have been working hard to keep immigration out of the Tea Party agenda (notice that the “Contract from America” doesn’t include anything on immigration or border security among the issues people are supposed to vote for). But Armey can’t help himself; Monday at the National Press Club, his “freewheeling talk” included the following:

In language that will likely be recalled in the upcoming debate over immigration, Armey minced no words in condemning Republicans over their stance.

“Who in the Republican Party was the genius who said now that we have identified the fastest-growing demographic in America, let’s go out and alienate them? This is a nation of immigrants. … There is room in America,” he said.

“When I was Republican leader, I saw to it that Tom Tancredo could not get on a stage because I saw how destructive he was,” Armey said of the anti-immigration former congressman. “Republicans have to get off this goofiness. Ronald Reagan said, ‘Tear down this wall.’ Tom Tancredo said ‘Build that wall.’ Who’s right? America is not a nation that builds walls. America is a nation that opens doors, and we should be that.”

For more from Krikorian, go to National Review Online, here!

By the way, I mentioned Tea Parties Against Amnesty, here, in a post about the USCCB’s lobbying and organizing for Amnesty.   Use our search function for the many posts we have written on Grover Norquist and his questionable ties to Islamic supremacists.

USCCB lobbyist tells New Mexico audience about their leadership of DC Amnesty march

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It seems that earlier in the month, Open Borders advocates converged on New Mexico State University to talk about “immigration reform.”  One of the speakers leading the discussion was the Washington, DC representative of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops who outlined the USCCB role in the upcoming DC protest I told you about here.

From Mexidata.Info:

Johnny Young, executive director of migration and refugee services for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. D.C., joined other speakers in Las Cruces in calling for reform. The ordeal of Newby’s [an earlier speaker at the event] family, Young said, is a “vivid example” of a “broken” immigration system.

A former US ambassador to Sierra Leone, Togo, Bahrain and Slovenia, Young said the Roman Catholic leadership organization has an 80-year history of involvement in immigration issues, and has helped settle about one million new immigrants to the US since 1975.

“This is part of our religion, the Judeo-Christian tradition, welcoming the stranger,” Young said.

Currently, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is mounting a campaign to send three million postcards to Congress in support of immigration law reforms that include a pathway to legalization for undocumented residents, a new guest worker program and the elimination of detention centers. The bishops also support a March 21 pro-immigrant rally in Washington that will include calls to pass an immigration reform bill sponsored by Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois.

I wonder if the US Taxpayer paid for Mr. Young’s trip to New Mexico?

Now they are invoking the Tea Party boogeyman!  They must think this will resonate!

Although Young voiced confidence that momentum was building on the side of reform advocates, opponents of legalizing undocumented residents are also gearing up for action. For instance, members of the Tea Party movement and their allies plan numerous rallies across the United States on April 15.

“Despite the fake polls, bought and paid for by the Open Borders Lobby groups, the truth remains that 80 percent of Americans oppose Amnesty for illegal aliens and turning millions of illegals into voters would have a catastrophic effect on America,” said William Green of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC in a statement this week.

“We will be sending tens of thousands of people out to support Tea Party events on April 15 to properly present public opposition to illegal immigration and Amnesty for illegals,” Green said. To help organize opposition to the Gutierrez bill and related proposals, the Tea Party Against Amnesty has set up a website at www.AgainstAmnesty.com.

Broadening their reach, anti-amnesty groups are also utilizing Twitter and Facebook to mobilize.

Unfortunately I am out of time tonight to do more research on this, but I did just find this testimony by USCCB lobbyist Young to the State Department adovcating the controversial resettlement to the US of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh.

 State Department links Rohingya to terrorist group here.

Politico: Immigration Reform in Peril

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After a meeting on Thursday with Obama, the only Republican interested in pursuing comprehensive immigration reform (aka Amnesty), expressed his pessimism at the chances of anything happening on an issue that will be a final straw for Tea Party activists and groups who want to see the border closed and the present laws followed and who are furious over health care (so-called) reform.

From the Politico:

A pair of White House meetings Thursday designed to chart a path forward for immigration reform instead spotlighted the daunting obstacles ahead — and showed why many Capitol Hill insiders believe it’s quite unlikely an immigration bill will happen this year.

After meeting with President Barack Obama, the leading Republican backing a comprehensive approach warned that a Democratic health care push could scuttle any chance of action on immigration in this Congress.

“I expressed, in no uncertain terms, my belief that immigration reform could come to a halt for the year if health care reconciliation goes forward,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a statement issued just after he and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with Obama.

So where is Senator McCain of the infamous Kennedy/McCain/Bush amnesty bill of 2007.  Hiding?  He knows his primary challenger in Arizona would make hay out of any effort by McCain at this point to bring up the unpopular plan again!

We will see if anything changes after the March 21st demonstration in Washington where the volags (supposedly voluntary federal contractors) are joining the Marxists and labor unions to march on Washington in support of amnesty for 11 million (give or take a million or two) aliens.