For decades, loads of cash, kindness of U. S. citizens, have bolstered immigrant resettlement services, usually administered by faith-based nonprofits. In fiscal year 2024 alone, the U. S. government spent more than$ 2.7 billion on “refugee and entrant assistance” programs, and more than$ 1 billion went to nonprofits connected to four major Christian denominations: Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal, and the United Methodist Church.
That remarkable figure just scratches the surface of the complex money network that supports immigration through numerous national offices, with contracts and grants granted to state and local governments as well as to liberal and faith-based nonprofits, including various denominations that are not mentioned here.
Religious organizations typically rely on sponsors to discover their funds used to combat social issues. However, when a rise in the problem ( in this case, more refugees in need of financial and other aid ) results in more government funding,” charities” are encouraged to show that there is a need for more taxpayer funds by keeping the issue unsolved. Data from usaspending. governor demonstrates how bad the situation is. During President Joe Biden’s administration, funding for the majority of the organizations that serve immigrants increased year over year. This is something donors do not bear. The citizens should be free to choose whether to continue funding a non-profit that transports migrants across the country.
President Donald Trump is altering the emigration environment, cutting back on these initiatives and sending improper creatures back to their home countries. He wants to stop the vicious drug cartels that feed American habit and stop legal wolf systems that smuggle dozens of unvetted illegal aliens into the country.
Attracting Emigration
You’d think that the immigrant community did rejoice that Trump is trying to stop illegal immigration, but rather you’d think it’s happening to Christian organizations that work with immigrants.
Immigration Counselor Barbara Graham of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Refugee & Immigration Services recently released a video that offers tips on how immigrants is stifle authorities looking into their places of employment.
The Catholic Bishops of Michigan wrote a speech calling for safety of illegal aliens in opposition to Trump’s immigration changes.
We urge our elected representatives to help laws that protect children who immigrate to and remain in unauthorized people.
For alone adolescents and refugees, the Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, received$ 376 million in 2024. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston received$ 11.1 million for the same job.
In Kentucky, home to some of the lowest income Appalachian counties in the U. S., Catholic Charities of Louisville received over$ 180 million through a series of nine grants to be used for refugee services in 2024, including the Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance programs, classes to expanding citizenship for Kentucky’s legal permanent residents by funding citizenship classes, and the Wilson-Fish Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ( TANF ) program, which gives welfare money to refugees in a” customized, culturally, and linguistically appropriate” way.
There are thousands more cash in some nearby contracts, but these are just a few of the Catholic Charities grants.
Federal money for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service totaled$ 340.5 million in 2024, and much more has increased since.
The nonprofit, which has a socially linked President and CEO, KrishO’Mara Vignarajah, changed its name to Global Refuge last year. She recently held positions as top advisors under then-Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as at the White House and as plan chairman for former First Lady Michelle Obama.
World Protection has a number of state contracts and grants that serve unaccompanied minors and refugees.
” Refugees rely on relocation services for essential aid such as housing, food, English classes, and career placement”, a Global Protection statement said last month denouncing Trump’s plan and funding changes. These services are essential to assisting families in achieving self-sufficiency and becoming active members of their communities.
Gen. Michael Flynn, who posted some grant funding numbers on social media, caught Gen. Michael Flynn’s attention this week with regard to Global Refuge’s funding.  ,
” There are MANY more organizations cashing in on our hard-earned money”, Flynn posted. These organizations are receiving substantial sums, which raise serious questions about how and who are the beneficiaries of taxpayer funds.
Global Refuge responded with a statement on “misinformation” about their work, condemning” the false accusations” against its “humanitarian work”.
Global Refuge claims its “network of providers” is prepared to assist the Trump administration in welcoming families who need to resettle in our nation.
For refugee and entrant assistance as well as unaccompanied minors, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States received$ 29.7 million in 2024 from the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. Knowing this, it makes sense that Mariann Edgar Budde, an Episcopal Bishop, recently spoke in front of Trump to support immigrant programs, as The Federalist previously reported.
In 2024, the United Methodist Church’s Board of Childcare received a$ 36.4 million grant to run programs for refugees and unaccompanied children, provide long-term shelter, or arrange foster care. The Immigration Law &, Justice Network, funded through United Methodist Committee on Relief, provides legal help for immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. It put out a Jan. 21statement saying Trump’s policies “vilify immigrants”.
” We know these violent, racist policies violate U. S. law, but it’s more than that. They dehumanize people in a way that desensitizes us to their suffering, the cruelty they are subject to, and the worthiness of their very lives,” the statement said.
Notice the pattern: those who receive big bucks complain the loudest.
Eliminate The Incentive
Coyotes charge enormous fees to bring people on a treacherous, and lawless journey into the U. S. that can include rape, theft, thirst, hunger, and sometimes injury or death. Children are shackled away from their parents and left to their own volition. The alien frequently ends up serving as a trafficking victim and operating in plain sight in towns across the nation.
Why do they take a chance? Because of the easier life in the United States as a result of the programs provided by these nonprofits.
Refugees are shown in a document from Catholic Charities in Maine that states they receive$ 900 upon arrival, which is then spent wherever they need, and then receive cash assistance for eight months. Alternatively, they may be eligible for TANF for five years with the option to extend there.
They also get medical assistance, and access to food and housing, vocational training, trauma therapy, and in some cases, help accessing land for farming or financial assistance to help start home childcare businesses.
Rather than fleeing danger in their home countries, many are surely enticed to the U. S. by benefits unheard of in their countries. It has given rise to a vicious migration network.
Christians should not align with the pipeline that keeps it running, instead of looking at this crime-ridden system with disgust. If we stop making America so attractive, would-be immigrants won’t risk the dangerous journey to come here illegally.
The Trump administration is attempting to end the entitlements and crimes linked to unfettered immigration. Churches should support that, because it is what’s best for people.  ,
Beth Brelje covers The Federalist’s elections coverage. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
