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2024-02-04 Government Corruption

Christian Nonprofits Incentivize Illegal Immigration With Your Tax Dollars

[WND] President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse Rev. Franklin Graham told Newsmax in May 2023 that despite his organization’s prominent presence in Latin American countries, "We’re not aiding illegal immigration."

"We are feeding people down there. We’re not helping people cross the border," Graham, the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, insisted.

While programs offering food and financial resources to the caravans snaking through Central America seem humane on the surface, they actually incentivize more migrants to pay the cartel smuggling fees so they can make the trip north. Well-intentioned Christian charities are using American taxpayer money to assist migrants on their journey through Central America, undoubtedly fueling the surge of human trafficking across borders from South America into Mexico and the U.S.

Catholic groups’ work subsidizing migrant treks to the U.S. is widely known and has even been scrutinized by members of Congress. But popular evangelical groups like Samaritan’s Purse and World Relief also use American tax dollars they receive from grants to make migrants’ travel to the deadliest land migration route easier.

Samaritan’s Purse’s mission to "Go and do likewise," as Jesus commanded in the parable of the Good Samaritan, led to the creation of dozens of international aid programs including Operation Christmas Child and World Medical Mission. For its work, Samaritan’s Purse has received millions of American dollars from government grants, including from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Approximately $718,513 of the money Samaritan’s Purse garnered from government grants and donations has gone to the UN’s Inter-Agency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V).

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-04 03:18|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top
File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

"We are feeding people down there. We’re not helping people cross the border,"

Nuremberg trial defense logic or simply jumping the shark ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-04 03:25|| 2024-02-04 03:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Being involved in charitable endeavours produces endorphins*, whether or not the giving produces the desired effect. Some people are happy just chasing the feelz.

* I’m sure there is a non-reproducible study out there to prove it. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-04 03:30|| 2024-02-04 03:30|| Front Page Top

#3 ^But the main thing, it produces hefty salaries for the charities personell.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-04 05:29|| 2024-02-04 05:29|| Front Page Top

#4 charitable endeavours produces endorphins*

Why Giving Is Good for Your Health

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-04 06:45|| 2024-02-04 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ April 15 "giving" withstanding.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-04 06:55|| 2024-02-04 06:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I no longer give to the charities that take all those government grants. They have made themselves accountable to Cesar not me.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-04 08:33|| 2024-02-04 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Not just here.

Unholy row over UK asylum 'pray to stay' ruse: Church leaders insist the Home Office is responsible for vetting asylum seekers after former Home Secretaries accuse CoE 'activists' of 'aiding bogus claims by offering conversions to Christianity'

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-04 08:41|| 2024-02-04 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Love the Trump standard tax deduction makes contributing to charities a non-factor in terms of taxes.

Now, you either believe in the charity, or you write them off. Adios Catholic Charities; go hit up those moochers you're infecting my country with and tell me how it works out.

Posted by Regular joe 2024-02-04 15:44|| 2024-02-04 15:44|| Front Page Top

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