According to the document, NATO “no longer aligns with current US national security interests”

WASHINGTON, December 10. /TASS/. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky representative, introduced a bill calling for the United States to withdraw from NATO.

“NATO is a Cold War relic,” the Republican Congressman wrote on the X social network. “We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries,” the legislator said, referring to the US expenditures in the military alliance.

The lawmaker added that he had submitted a bill to remove the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The document says that European NATO members have sufficient economic and military capacity to provide for their own defense. The bill also states that the alliance began its large-scale expansion to the east in 1999, despite the loss of its relevance and statements to the contrary.

According to the document, NATO “no longer aligns with current US national security interests.”

It is not clear yet when the US House of Representatives may consider the bill. Before its review, the document should get approval from the relevant House committees.

Republican Massie has previously opposed US interference in the affairs of other countries and Washington’s use of force. In particular, he criticized US strikes on Iranian facilities on June 22 as a breach of the American Constitution. US President Donald Trump lashed out at Massie over these statements. He also said that he would support Massie’s rival in the Republican Party’s primary election contest.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, DC on April 4, 1949 by the foreign ministers of 12 countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

NATO has had 10 waves of enlargement, including three in the Cold War period (1952, 1955 and 1982) and seven after its end (1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024). Today NATO comprises 32 member states.

Dear friends, on the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, I was thinking about John Lennon’s legacy and identity. Dear friends, I grew up in the world for 24 years before I came to Christ, so I know its thinking and ways because I once was saturated in it, lived it, and walked its course (Eph. 2:1-14). As I was at work today, people were remembering John Lennon and praising him in many ways, and as the Christmas music was playing; they were playing many of this world’s Christmas carols which have a secular and demonic mood to it of utopia dreams through relativism and bankrupt human love which excludes RIGHTEOUSNESS and Almighty God, man’s ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator (Rom. 1:18-32). One song that was played today was John Lennon’s, So This Is X-mas (War is Over). I had to laugh as I listened to the words and praised the Lord from what He saved me from! This John Lennon song is a total swipe and dig at the TRUE biblical Christmas message and the rejection thereof. Mr. “Peace” (John Lennon himself), seeks to encourage all through moral relativism and lawlessness to seek world peace, to end war and “love” one another as a fallen humanity (Isa. 48:22; 49:1; 57:21, Rom. 3, Jude 1:10). Hey world, how has that idiocy and delusion worked out for humanity since the fall (Psalm 14, Rom. 3, James 4:1-4)?

I see Lennon’s global utopian vision EXPONENTIALLY farther away than it was 45 years ago; for the Day of the Lord is at hand, in which He will judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Today in 2025, I see John Lennon’s global utopian vision EXPONENTIALLY farther away than it was some 45 years ago; for the Day of the Lord is at hand, in which Almighty God will judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rev. 6-19). The tragedy of the vain lawless utopian dream and its dreamer is that it can NEVER EVER come true without RIGHTEOUSNESS and Almighty God (Matt. 6:33; Rev. 21; 22:1-5)! My dear friends, I used to think just like the world, for John Lennon was a hero of mine in the days of my vanity. That demonic mindset is a TOTAL DELUSION, and how mankind loves to drink it in, especially during the Christmas holiday season! Satan’s subtle counter Christmas message is alive and well on planet Earth, and because of global unbelief, it is received yearly. Tragically, as John Lennon goes, he is probably the world’s leading musician advocate for “peace”; however, in the reprobate world of John Lennon, he NEVER found “peace” in this world and in the end was murdered by one of his fans.

This song is a total swipe and dig at the TRUE biblical Christmas message and the rejection thereof. Lennon seeks to encourage all through moral relativism and lawlessness to seek world peace, to end war, and to “love” one another as fallen humanity.

There is absolutely no way that TRUE PEACE and PERFECT HARMONY can EVER be brought about WITHOUT the ETERNAL established RIGHTEOUSNESS of ALMIGHTY GOD (Isa. 32:17, 48:18,22). Almighty God’s whole ETERNITY and physical universe were established based on the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS PERSON of the TRIUNE GOD! How deceived are we as humans and totally delusional to think that we, as Adam’s fallen race, could establish a PERFECT world and enter into ETERNITY without the required RIGHTEOUSNESS that Almighty God demands (1 Cor. 6:8-11, Gal. 5:19-21, Rev. 21:8, 22:14-15). We are a smashed glass or broken egg with absolutely no way our repairing ourselves. 6000 years of human history testify to the fact that we are a violent and lawless race with death as our future and destiny (Rom. 3:23), and on our way to total destruction. If it had not been for Almighty God’s outside intervention holding back the full accumulation of violence of mankind, we would have been extinct a long time ago (Matt. 24:21-22, 2 Thess. 2:6-8). Isn’t it amazing that as American’s listen to our leaders in Washington D.C., the media (conservative and liberal), Hollywood and the music culture and industry preach utopian ideals unto them that the majority of the world sincerely believe that lie from hell, which is if we just keep working at “peace” (give peace a chance) that we will one day finally achieve it.

How deceived are we as humans and totally delusional to think that we, as Adam’s fallen race, could establish a PERFECT world and enter into ETERNITY without the required RIGHTEOUSNESS that Almighty God demands.

My friend, let’s wake up and get real! There is NO WAY that a smashed egg can EVER again be put perfectly back together, and there is NO WAY that this broken world can EVER fix itself. This vain utopian pursuit is the ultimate delusional chasing of the devil’s cattle. At the end of this vain delusional chase, the world will tragically finally find out the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY that they have REJECTED their whole lives (Luke 16:22-31, Heb. 9:27, Rev. 20:11-15). It will be on that Day that these will be fully AWAKENED from their self-induced godless hypnotic delusion and will FULLY understand that their lawless self-willed existence here in time has led them straight into the slaughter house of the ETERNAL Divine Judgment and wrath of Almighty God (Rom. 1:18-32, 2 Thess. 2; 8-12, Rev.20:11-15).

He sent His Son 2000 years ago, born of a virgin, so you might LIVE FOREVER with Him and to enjoy Him in RIGHTEOUS PERFECTION and BLISS FOREVERMORE!

My dear friend, this is not Almighty God’s desire for you, to die in your transgressions. He sent His Son 2000 years ago born of a virgin so you might LIVE FOREVER with Him and to enjoy Him in RIGHTEOUS PERFECTION and BLISS FOREVERMORE (1 Cor. 2:9, Rev 21-22:1-5)! This was Almighty God’s grand desire at the beginning of creation for mankind, not what man has horrifically reaped upon himself. We as a world do not know divine PEACE, let alone the temporal peace that fallen man can barely manufacture (Isa. 32:17, 48:18, 22, 53, John 1:10-11, Rom. 3, Rev.6-16).

A Savior was born and is soon coming again in great glory to establish His 1000-year reign of PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS!

This season may we truly – with all our being – want to know, possess and exercise the wondrous peace of Almighty God which He has brought to us by the shed blood of His dear Son (Eph. 2:14). As we walk in time may we seek to enjoy our redemptive benefits which have been given to us by our God and Savior (Eph. 1:3, 2:1-19, Phil. 4:17, Col. 3:1-4) and the heavenly peace of heart that comes with the fact and reality that our sins and trespasses are removed FOREVER (Psalm 103:12, Rom. 7:24-25, 10:4, Gal 1:4). That my friends is what “peace on earth is all about! Rejoice GREATLY (Phil. 4:4)! A Savior was born and is soon coming again in great glory to establish His 1000-year reign of PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isa. 2:1-4, 9:6-7, 11:1-9, 32:1 Jer. 23:5, 33:15-16, Dan. 2:44-45, 7:7:13-14, Micah 4:1-4)!!!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Maranatha ☁️👇☁️

The Ignorant Fisherman

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles revealed that President Donald Trump will get out and “campaign like it’s 2024 again” for the 2026 midterm elections.

During an interview on The Mom View, Wiles spoke about the 2026 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the 2026 Winter Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. Wiles also referenced how, instead of focusing on localizing the midterm elections, the Trump administration would turn that approach “on its head.”

This is such a great time for him to be in office,” Wiles said. “He’s such a patriot. He loves it so much. He’s going to have a fun next year, but, we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too. Typically — just a little bit of campaign speak, if I may.”

Wiles went on to explain that “in the midterms, it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House,” but about localizing the election and keeping “the federal officials out of it.”

“We’re actually going to turn that on its head,” Wiles shared. “And, put him on the ballot because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters. And, we saw, a week ago Tuesday, what happens when he’s not on the ballot and not active. So, I haven’t quite broken it to him yet, but he’s going to campaign like it’s 2024 again.”

Wiles’s comment comes a week after Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-TN) won a special election for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district.

While Van Epps’s win helped Republicans keep control of a “reliably conservative U.S. House district,” the election “contributed to a gloomy outlook for the party going into the 2026 midterms,” according to the Associated Press (AP).

Jason Roe, a Republican strategist, stated that there were “danger signs” and noted that Republicans “shouldn’t have had to spend that kind of money to hold that kind of seat,” according to the outlet.

For all these people he helps — he doesn’t help everybody, but for those he does, he’s a difference-maker, and he certainly is a turnout machine, so the midterms will be very important to us,” Wiles added.

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They Called It ‘Compassion’ — But it was Child Trafficking

By Kevin Finn

In the history of American governance, few chapters will stain the pages as darkly as the utter failure of the Biden-Harris administration to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children. I must ask this question: If their goal was to intentionally traffic children into sexual slavery and forced labor, how would their actions have been any different?

For four catastrophic years, vulnerable minors poured across the Rio Grande and were funneled into a system riddled with incompetence, willful blindness, and flat-out negligence. A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) landed like a bomb and exposed the tragedy: the administration lost track of over 320,000 of these children, releasing them to unvetted sponsors without so much as a whisper of accountability. These were terrified kids, fleeing poverty or violence, only to vanish into the shadows of sex trafficking, forced labor, and unimaginable abuse.

I must also ask this question: Why would parents send unaccompanied minor children on a trip across hundreds or thousands of miles, knowing the likelihood that they would be raped, otherwise abused, and forced into slavery? Were they greasing the skids for chain migration?

The human cost defies comprehension. Young girls, 16 years old or younger, drugged and pimped out by alleged “brothers” or “uncles.”  This was the very definition of dereliction of duty that prioritized open borders over innocent lives.

HHS stripped away rigorous vetting at the onset of Biden’s “reign of error,” opting for phone calls instead of in-person checks, permitting non-family sponsors — many hosting multiple children — to whisk away minors unchecked. Addresses provided to ICE were wrong 80% of the time, incomplete for over 31,000 kids, or downright fictional. 34 children were dumped at two nonexistent locations by one field office alone. Even worse, a 2021 interagency pact handcuffed information-sharing, blocking DHS from sponsor biometrics to shield potential criminals from scrutiny.

Law enforcement officers likened prying data from HHS to “pulling teeth,” as bureaucrats fretted over deporting sponsors with rap sheets or immigration status because… racism. The result? Over 233,000 children unenrolled in immigration proceedings since January 2021, plus 43,000 no-shows in court — prime targets for cartels surging in trafficking.

Whistleblowers like Tara Rodas, a former HHS recruit, exposed the horror: handing kids to “traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad, bad, bad people.”

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In a final insult, the administration’s vaunted safety hotline for these kids ignored 65,000 desperate calls from August 2023 to January 2025 — pleas that spanned complaints about “stale bread” to nightly assaults by adult men in bedrooms. Of course, it was hard to answer all those calls when there was only a single staffer assigned to the task! One boy’s unanswered cries for help were finally reviewed after Trump took office and led to his rescue and his sponsor’s arrest.

As with so many Democrat-run operations, fraud was rampant. Over $6 billion flowed to NGOs like Endeavors and Southwest Key, whose revenues exploded from $52 million to $1.18 billion in two years, with CEO pay doubling. These “nonprofits”, 97-99% federally funded, became enablers: hiring staff without background checks, letting men roam female dorms, and even staging sexually explicit “twerking” lessons for teen girls.

They shuttled minors to flights like unwitting and unwilling cargo, while 80% of sheltered women bore scars of cartel rapes en route. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley hammered home the point: Biden’s crew chose “speed and optics” over safety, releasing 24,100 kids to high-risk distant relatives or strangers in gang-infested motels. His referrals sparked 102 investigations and pierced the veil of secrecy.

Meanwhile, the Democrats maintained a stunning silence — a void where outrage should have thundered. No fiery speeches for the lost; no knees taken in Emancipation Hall, no demands for reform. Instead, they doubled down on the very policies that unleashed this nightmare, shielding illegal aliens and the criminal networks that preyed on these innocents. Their “compassion” rings hollow when it excuses the traffickers and the NGOs fattening off federal largesse. Even as Grassley’s probes exposed the firewall of secrecy, the Left blocked bills to protect these children from sexual harm. The Left’s new agenda: empathy for invaders and indifference to the victims they devour.

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The NGOs were the shadowy middlemen in this tragedy, flush with taxpayer dollars yet entangled in political webs that may explain the hush. From 2021 to 2024, the federal government funneled over $10 billion in grants to immigration nonprofits for UAC services — Catholic Charities alone pocketed $2 billion, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) $221 million in FY2023, and HIAS $40.9 million.

The quid pro quo whispers grow louder when you follow the money to campaigns. OpenSecrets data shows Catholic Charities affiliates and employees donated over $141,000 in the 2024 cycle, 95% to Democrats — $22,305 across 40 blue lawmakers versus a pittance to Republicans.

As a Catholic, I am disgusted and scandalized.

Broader “professional Catholic” networks skewed 99% Democratic, per a 2024 Lepanto Institute analysis, fueling PACs like Immigrants’ List that poured millions into pro-open-border candidates. Even ostensibly neutral groups like US Immigration Fund funneled $272,400 in 2024, with chunks to Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries ($15,000).

This financial symbiosis breeds silence: Lawmakers reliant on NGO lobbying ($730 million spent on immigration issues since 2008) hesitate to bite the hand that funds their reelection. Between January 2023 and April 2024, U.S. political campaigns collected around $8.6 billion

Democrats, the primary beneficiaries, shield the system that sustains their base’s priorities; Republicans grandstand but lacked the votes for reform until now. Children are lost not just to traffickers, but to a political machine greased by grants and gratitude.

Enter President Trump and his unyielding Border Czar, Tom Homan — a Hercules for our time, slaying the bureaucratic dragons Biden left in his wake. Since Inauguration Day, Trump’s iron-fisted enforcement has sealed the border: zero releases in seven months, 579,000 removals, and 2.2 million total departures — the most secure frontier in history. But the real miracle? Over 62,400 missing children — Biden’s castoffs, ignored and untracked — now found and freed.

Homan, eyes glued to daily tallies, revealed on Fox News: “Over 62,000 children, found by the Trump administration. Children that weren’t even being looked for under the Biden administration. President Trump saved over 62,000 children’s lives.” Sex trafficking rings dismantled, forced labor camps raided, horrors too vile for airwaves unearthed. On X, Homan hailed the unsung heroes of HHS, ICE, and FBI: “They will not stop until we run down every lead on every missing child.” Trump’s no-nonsense leadership — requiring no new laws, just resolve — has slashed crossings to zero, starving the cartels and reclaiming the innocent.

This is redemption in action: from Biden’s abyss of nearly a half million ghosts to Trump’s tally of triumphs. Yet the scars linger, a grim testament to leftist priorities. As Homan put it, Trump proves daily “why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime.”

American laws changed after the murders of Amber Hagerman and Megan Kanka. Shouldn’t there be a response for these 300,000 souls? The silence must end — not with hearings, but with handcuffs on the enablers. All of them.

Until then, America’s moral compass spins in the dark.

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A few years ago, I penned a piece titled “Democratic Party Platform 2020,” which was viewed many times on several different “platforms,” including this one. (American Thinker always comes first.)

As we approach the 2026 and 2028 elections, I thought it might be a good time to update said piece, especially given current events.

Though Democrats don’t usually say much other than “Trump bad,” “Republicans fascists,” and “no one should ever have the right to disagree with anything we are — and aren’t — saying,” here is what the Democrats’ updated platform appears to be, in a casual format:

*We reserve the right to ban cigarettes, cigars, and pipe and chewing tobacco, while legalizing marijuana and khat sales nationwide, with supply — and demand — spurred by government subsidy.

*We will place additional common-sense restrictions on the sale and manufacture of firearms while simultaneously providing subsidies to our Muslim illegal alien community to help them purchase the knives and swords they so desperately need.

*We will place common-sense restrictions on the practice of Christianity — and its possibly even more evil cohort, nationalism — while providing the welcoming environment that our peaceful and burgeoning Muslim community needs to continue to thrive. We will strive to aid CAIR and other organizations — foreign and domestic — that assist Muslims in continuing to insert — and assert — themselves into Western society.

*We vow to starve ideologically driven faux media outlets like Fox News and the New York Post of all funding, while shutting down any and all platforms they have to reach their audience, while at the same time lavishly funding and supporting unbiased outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, Slate, Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, to name a few. Only by utterly eradicating the enemy conservative press can we make sure people get factual information that they can trust to help us protect our beloved democracy and keep Democrats in power for 

We will strive to make it illegal for anyone to sport a Christian or Jewish symbol on their body.

*We will encourage, support — and lavishly fund — the transitioning of one sex or gender to another, regardless of age, parental desire, or overall physical or mental health.  

*We promise also to eradicate any borders or barriers to this great nation filled with bigots, racists, homophobes, transphobes, and deplorable rubes, so that anyone who wishes to come here can do so without fear of deportation. We will do this by taxing the rich at unprecedented levels and diverting much of their income to provide free aid and succor, food, clothing, shelter, healthcare — and a few grand in spending money every month — to those amazing non-citizens (and mostly peaceful non-criminals) who enter this country illegally. The rest will go to erect a stout, 30-foot-high permanent (and electrified) wall around the Capitol so that when Democrats once again control all three branches of government—and we will, very soon, as it is our right — another Jan. 6 can never again occur.

*We will work tirelessly to advance the cause of a Palestinian state while we also work to destroy the state of Israel, Allahu Akhbar! God willing. Who do these uppity Jews think they are, anyway?

*Diversity is our greatest value. Therefore we will stand with those in our Pakistani, Somali, and other non-assimilating undocumented migrant communities, regardless of their proclivity to rape, gang-rape, stab, or otherwise confront their white supremacist oppressors. We will work to overturn the Crapitalist — oops, we mean Capitalist system (giggle), that, though some say has lifted billions out of poverty, has never guaranteed an equal outcome for everybody regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, talent, or effort. We will make sure no one — no one — has more than anyone else. Of anything. No matter what. Will this necessarily disincentivize hard work, effort, employment, competition, excellence, and entrepreneurship? Yes, but equity trumps all. Diversity is to be desired in all things except thought and income. Period!

*As progressives, today we know that someone’s “good” is another’s “evil,” and vice versa. And who are we to judge? Therefore, we vow to promote the new progressive concept of “transmorality,” the ethos that “morality” (such a judgmental word) is not absolute or even knowable, but fluid, just like the Constitution — and everything else. We vow to support, aid, and abet transmoralists everywhere. Trans pride.

If you keep up with current events at all, it is unlikely that you have missed in the past week the explosion of the Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scandal into the national, and even international, news.

Not that the enormous Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota is something new. The bloggers at Powerline, who are based in Minnesota, have been covering the subject since at least 2018. Here is a May 2018 City Journal piece by Scott Johnson (of Powerline), reporting on an investigation of Somali-owned daycare centers in Minneapolis suspected of stealing millions by billing the government for inflated number of enrollees. But things really got going when the pandemic hit in 2020-21. Minnesota became ground zero for Somali fraudsters setting up sites supposedly to feed hungry children, and collecting millions for meals that were never prepared or served. Federal indictments for this fraud — including 47 people charged in the first indictment — began to issue in 2022. Dozens of articles at Powerline have traced the scandal since that time, as the revealed scope of the fraud has gradually gone from the millions to the hundreds of millions, and most recently into the billions of dollars.

Yet somehow the scandal didn’t make it into the national press in a big way until the New York Times finally jumped in on November 29, 2025, with a long article headlined “How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch.” Excerpt:

The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality. Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.

The Times piece appears to have given the cue to the rest of the liberal establishment that it was now OK to break the omertà previously in effect against covering the Minnesota scandal. Suddenly the story is everywhere.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Minnesota story has been the revelation of total abdication by the state’s Governor (Tim Walz) and Attorney General (Keith Ellison) of any role in catching or prosecuting the fraudsters. The frauds occurred in programs largely funded by the federal government, but administered by the State of Minnesota. The State is the one that actually paid the checks to the crooks. Yet all of the investigations and prosecutions have been done by the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office. It appears that Walz and Ellison could not have been less interested in prosecuting.

One might ask whether allowing fraud like this to fester is actually part of the business model of Walz and Ellison, and of the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota). Somalis are a key voting bloc for Minnesota’s DFL. Of the billion plus dollars of government money going to the fraudsters, might any of it have been diverted to fund DFL electoral activities? Although I haven’t seen specific reporting on this aspect, it is hard to imagine that none of it did.

And the same question can be posed around the country. Yesterday station KTLA in Los Angeles broke the story of a new scandal there, where eleven LA County employees have been charged with collecting pandemic unemployment benefits even while working full time for the government. Peachy Keenan commented on X: “All blue cities are run by the same kleptocracy.”

Before commenting, I’ll provide one further, and rather large, example, from the early days of this blog. In 2013 here in New York a scandal rocked something called the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. At the time, the Met Council (as it was and still is known) was headed by a guy named Bill Rapfogel, who was the spouse of Judy Rapfogel, who was the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver. The Met Council was receiving about $90 million annually in funds from New York State, out of a total budget for the organization of around $110 million.

I covered the Met Council scandal in a piece here at MC on October 10, 2013. Here is the gist, from a complaint filed by the Attorney General (then Eric Schneiderman):

The allegation in the AG complaint against Rapfogel is that, as the Times describes it, he “conspire[d] with someone at the insurance brokerage . . . to pad the charity’s insurance payments by several hundred thousand dollars a year. . . . Mr. Rapfogel . . . pocketed some of the money and was involved in getting the rest to politicians who supply the government grants to the nonprofit organization. . . .”

The State funds a supposed “anti-poverty” program to the tune of tens of millions, and some of that money, deeply buried, makes it back to the political campaigns of the politicians who pass out the taxpayer money. And then, of course, the final and also critical part of the scam is that the anti-poverty program must never actually raise anyone out of poverty. That would defeat the whole purpose. From my 2013 piece:

Absolutely the last thing they want is for the “poverty” population to shrink. Then the funding would go down! The basic idea is in-kind handouts of one sort or another. As readers here know, those do not count at all in the official measures of “poverty”and therefore will never remove anyone from the rolls. Look at their list of programs: “providing quality housing,” “providing clothing, furniture, and help with home repairs,” “assisting seniors with essential living tasks,” “helping families recover from domestic violence,” “enrolling New Yorkers in low and no-cost health care and food stamps,” etc., etc. There is no risk at all that these kind of things will decrease the poverty count by a single soul.

If you are interested, the Met Council continues to survive on a much reduced budget, having lost most of its State funding. Sheldon Silver was convicted on unrelated charges in 2018, and died in a federal prison hospital while serving his sentence.

I suspect that it is completely pervasive that organizations that receive large amounts of government funds for welfare programs then are expected to and do provide political support back to the politicians that arranged for the funding. The “political support” could be campaign contributions, or campaign workers, or door knockers, or phone banks, or advocacy. The teachers’ unions are undoubtedly the ones who have perfected these techniques beyond the level of anyone else. The handout state is inherently corrupt.

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

On The Rosenberg Report, host Joel Rosenberg breaks down the global pressure on Israel to accept a Palestinian state. Rosenberg also unpacks newly released poll data revealing what Palestinians in Gaza and Judea and Samaria really think about a two-state and one-state solution.

Will the world force, successfully force, Israel to accept a Palestinian state when most Israelis, the vast majority of Israelis don’t want it? They don’t trust a Palestinian state to keep Israelis safe. Certainly not after October 7th.

This is a big question and pressure is mounting from multiple sides, including some you might not expect.

Hi, this is Joel Rosenberg in Jerusalem with a YouTube exclusive for the Rosenberg Report.

I want to look at this question about whether the world’s going to be able to successfully force Israel to accept a Palestinian state.

Now, you would have thought, pro-Israel Christians would have thought and and many others would have thought that no, it’s impossible in the in the post October 7th environment to imagine that the world would still think that a Palestinian state, a sovereign independent Palestine state with East Jerusalem as its capital and the whole thing would would even be something that the rest of the world would think was a good idea, right?

Because after all, didn’t Israel’s prime minister in 2005, Ariel Chiron, withdraw all Israeli soldiers and all Israeli civilians out of Gaza uh and and basically turn Gaza into a effectively effectively into a Palestinian state with no Israeli occupation whatsoever, and Palestinians free to build a Palestinian paradise. They had beachfront property. They had natural gas, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas off their coast. industrious uh smart uh people, why not go build a paradise, right?

But that’s not what they did. The Palestinian people of Gaza elected Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization, to lead them and they and Gaza has been led into ruin and apocryphal apocalyptic disaster, catastrophe by Hamas.

So that’s the experiment with a Palestinian government so far with no Israeli occupation whatsoever. It didn’t work. So why would the world push it? Well, it’s one of these ideas that just the the world leaders, diplomats, politicians all around the world just think this is the best idea. So in September, as we talked about right, Saudis and the French and the British and a few other [organized] nations came together at the UN and had a big conference about getting ready for a Palestinian state. We’re just going to make it happen.

Now, I sort of dismissed that as not that likely at the time because I thought, yeah, that that’s still what the world thinks, but the United States is so much against it.

But then I have to say that the Trump peace plan emerged. Now, the Trump peace plan, you know, recently that I heralded, much of it because it got all the live Israeli hostages out of Gaza and got and you know, we’re almost at all of the dead Israeli hostages, their bodies almost are all back now as I record this. Only a few more to go. Let’s pray that that happens. But in that deal which was just ratified and turned into international law, the 20-point Trump peace plan turned into law, international law, ratified by the UN Security Council just a few days ago, right? In that deal or in that agreement in that plan for peace, what is in there but a pathway to the possibility of a Palestinian state. Now it doesn’t say that… the plan doesn’t say definitively say that there will be a Palestinian state but that’s the premise that all the rest of this effort all these other 18 19 points is going to get ready… the region ready for a Palestinian state and that’s why so many nations at the UN security council supported it because President Trump was using the language of, you know, putting a pathway to a Palestinian state right in the language of a UN security council which hasn’t been done with US support for quite a while.

So I raised the question again as you know is that where we’re heading. Is that going to happen? And the answer is I don’t know because I think it’s not a good idea. I want Palestinians to have, you know, the freedom to run their own lives, but I don’t want them to have the the capacity to pose an existential threat to the nation of Israel. And it’s not just Gaza that’s been a disaster in Palestinian governance. The West Bank has been a disaster, too. Palestinian Authority is more peaceful and mild, let’s say, more moderate in a sense, than Hamas, to be sure. But even Palestinians don’t like the government of the Palestinian Authority. 80% in the most recent poll by a Palestinian polling company, the most credible among them, 80% of Palestinians want Mahmud Abbash, the president of the Palestinian Authority, to leave. They want him to resign yesterday, not just today, because they think he’s corrupt. They think he’s too old. They think he’s, you know, creating a corrupt and ineffective government in the West Bank. Now, when you have these two models, corruption and ineffectiveness and genocide and terror, these are the two models of modern Palestinian government, right? And they don’t work. I wish they did in the sense that I wish Palestinians had better lives.

But I will tell you how the the corruption of the Palestinian Authority under Abbas has led to a very popular sense that I mean.. meaning that Hamas is the most popular political movement on the West Bank. I want to just give you some numbers from the latest poll just came out at the end of October from this Palestinian polling firm. And I find these numbers interesting and I think you should too. And so my larger point is, yeah, I think it’s possible that the world is going to force a Palestinian… a sovereign independent Palestinian state on Israel somehow. I’m not certain about that. I don’t see such a state in Bible prophecy.

But I can’t rule out the possibility that because so much of the world wants it to happen that it might happen, especially if President Trump pushes Israel to it. Now, he’s not doing that yet. But he did put the language of a Palestinian state in his peace plan that got ratified by the UN. And I will add that one of the reasons he doesn’t want to shut down the idea of a Palestinian state is because President Trump had supported it in his deal of the century plan that he rolled out in January 2020.

That was very interesting plan which BB Netanyahu mostly embraced because he was pretty sure that Abu Mazan uh aka Mahmud Abbas the Palestinian president the president of the Palestinian Authority BB was sure Netanyahu was sure that Abu Mazin would never go for it. So BB Netanyahu didn’t have to worry. he could hug Trump and accept uh the Trump deal of the century plan to create peace in knowing that the Palestinians wouldn’t leadership would never accept it. So even though the the Trump plan included an actual independent sovereign Palestine state with East Jerusalem as its capital, demilitarized to be sure with land swaps so that Israel would get a bunch of Judea and Samaria, what the world calls the West Bank, we would be able to keep our settlements that we have built there on biblical the biblical heartland. But in return, the Palestinians would get large swaths of territory in the Negv desert and along the borders of Gaza. That was the plan that Trump offered. So in the end, the Palestinian state would be even larger than this territory that the Palestians oversee today, whether that’s the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, or Gaza. That’s the Trump plan. So Trump believes in a two-state solution. He doesn’t emphasize it much because he knows that is Israelis don’t like that and are not just they don’t like it they’re they’re worried that it’s we’re our lives are going to be endangered by such a state. Evangelical Christians in the United States which are a huge supporter of President Trump overwhelmingly don’t like the idea of a sovereign Palestinian state because they worry that October 7th will happen again and again and again. And I I share those concerns. They most evangelicals also uh look at the Bible say, “Look, we we want a good life for Palestinians, right? We’re supposed to love our neighbor. That’s what Jesus commanded us.” But does loving our neighbor mean creating a sovereign state that could endanger the Jewish state? No. We don’t think it that that those two things don’t have to go together. They don’t go together. But um some might say, “Well, didn’t Abraham make a deal with Lot, his nephew, when there was all kinds of tension in the land.” And Abram says, “Fine, why don’t you take the part of the land that you like and I’ll take the rest and and we’ll call it a day.” And what did what did Lot take? He took the the very fertile at that time very fertile productive agricultural epicenter of the Jordan Valley which is today what the world calls the West Bank what we would call Judea and Samaria. So you you there is a model biblically of hey let’s make peace you go over there you take that nice part of the land we’ll take the rest and we’ll call it a day. Uh so there is a case for that biblically. Uh but there’s another case in Joel, the book of Joel, the actual biblical book of Joel, not not one of my book, the biblical book of Joel. In chapter 3, in the first few verses, God says through the Hebrew prophet Joel, the ancient Hebrew prophet, God says, “I will judge all the nations that divide my land.” Okay? Yeah. Abraham and Lot divided the land, but that’s even before the actual establishment of the sovereign state, nation state of Israel, which came during the time of Jacob and beyond uh and Joshua, right? Not during the time of Abraham and Lot. So even if you want to lean just to be friendly uh to the creation of a even a demilitarized Palestinian state, evangelicals struggle with well that’s not the right thing to do. It might sound right, but it it but it’s not right if God is saying right there in black and white in the Hebrew scriptures that God’s going to judge every nation that divides the land of Israel. Well, you you even if it sounds like a good idea, it’s not a good idea because God is against it. And we don’t want to put ourselves in a position as as Americans, as Israelis, or anyone else in the world, including the Palestinians, to do something that God is expressly against. Now, all this talk, all this talk, even even uh Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia at the White House, he talked about I, you know, I support peace with Israel, normalization with Israel, but I need to see a credible path towards a Palestinian state, an independent sovereign Palestinian state. Now, he didn’t say it absolutely has to be created by the time he normalizes with Israel, but he did say there has to be a credible path. So that that’s all this building international effort even in in the Oval Office side by side with President Trump. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen. We just have to find a way to make it happen. Okay. But this is interesting. All right.

Now listen to this. How many Palestinians support a two-state solution? Okay. the latest polling from this very credible Palestinian research organization which is located in the West Bank, 53%, 53% of Palestinians are against the two-state solution. They’re against a Palestinian state. Only 44% are for it. So, it’s really interesting. It’s not like 90% of Palestinians want this or 95% or 99%, not even 80%, not even 70%. Only 44% of Palestinians want a Palestinian state. So why should the world go to so much effort to push to force Israel into a Palestinian state when less than half of Palestinians want it? 53% are against.

Okay. Now, it’s interesting because in Gaza, Gazans actually support the idea of a of a two-state solution more. Why? Because they’ve been under war and the horrors of Hamas and all this, you know. So, they kind of like the idea of a two-state solution. But those who live in the actual territory that the world calls the West Bank, we call Judea and Samaria, how many Palestinians in the West Bank where the heart of this Palestinian state would be, how many of them support a Palestinian state, an independent state? Not that many. 63% are against 63% of Palestinians in the West Bank are against a Palestinian state with these conditions, an independent Palestinian state, a Palestinian state with June 1967 borders, meaning before Israel won the six- day war, an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital that’s demilitarized and has these land swaps where okay, Israel will get some of the its settlements fine, but we get a bunch of other territory inside Israel.

63% of West Bank Palestinians are against that.

So why is the world working so hard to make it happen?

Few more things.

The latest survey by this Palestinian polling company finds that 41% of Palestinians support using violence or armed struggle to remove the occupation of Israel from what they call their land. 41% support violence. And that’s the highest number of any of the options. How do we end the occupation? How does Palestinians get .. their land back? That’s the way the question was framed. And there was, you know, diplomacy and international efforts and, you know, for.., but the high the the highest number, the the plurality of Palestinians support violence to achieve their objectives.

A few others.

When it comes to the actual Trump plan that was just ratified by the UN Security Council, it is interesting that 59% of people in Gaza support the Trump plan, which you know is a little bit confusing, right? Because on the one hand, they are they are looking things a little bit differently than Palestinians on the West Bank, but they want a two-state solution mostly in the West Bank or in Gaza, right? They want a two-state solution in Gaza these days, and they think that Trump is their champion to get rid of Israel and give them a better life and get rid of Hamas. But only 39% of Palestinians in the West Bank support that the Trump plan.

So there’s deep divisions within the Palestinian society.

Overall, if you mix everybody together, there’s 47% of Palestinians are for the Trump plan, 49% against.

Now, my last point is this. How many Israelis at this point support a two-state solution? Because the numbers have dropped dramatically.

In 2020, 42% of Israeli Jews supported a two-state solution. That’s back when the Trump plan, the road to peace or the the deal of the century plan got rolled out in January 2020. But even then, only 42% of Israeli Jews supported a two-state solution. Along the lines I just shared.

By 2022, before the October 7th invasion, the number had dropped to only 34% of Israeli Jews supporting a two-state solution.

Today, well, today, the most recent polling that I’ve seen was from late last year, 2024, only 21% of Israeli Jews believe in a two-state solution. And the reason that poll showed very clearly is because 93% of Israeli Jews believe that the Palestinian objective of the basic average Palestinian on the ground is genocide or expulsion. either you know about 63% of Israeli Jews believe that Palestinians want to kill every Jew and the rest of Israeli Jews. Most of the rest believe that at the very minimum Palestinians want to expel the Jewish people from the state of Israel.

So the question is will the world force Israelis to accept a two-state solution? I don’t think Israelis are going to accept that. Will the world make it happen? Force it to happen? They seem to be trying. I think that’s a mistake on biblical and geopolitical reasons and the fact that Palestinians don’t want a two-state solution and neither do Israeli Jews.

European civilization is dying.  The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy makes this clear.  It has squandered its post-WWII economic and military assistance from the United States by investing in centralized, socialist bureaucracies and expansive welfare States.  By chasing the “climate change” con as a means for European governments to justify total control over the drivers of economic growth, European nations have forsaken cheap energy exploration, private entrepreneurship, and technological innovation.  By depending upon the United States to defend its territorial interests, European nations have destroyed their military capabilities.  

In an effort to “juice” their economies with cheap labor and artificial demographic growth, European nations have opened their borders to tens of millions of foreign immigrants.  The natural result is that foreign cultures have steadily eroded and replaced millennia-old European cultures without much resistance.  The Trump administration believes Europe could be effectively “erased” within twenty years.

When living things die, they tend to lash out.  Europe is no exception.  Its political elites have decided to pretend that everything is okay and that the continent remains the life-force of the entire world.  In order to buttress this delusion, European governments have embraced censorship and State-approved propaganda on a scale as obscene as anything that might occur in communist China.  Controlling the “narrative” and silencing dissent are the last gasps of every civilization on its deathbed.

Every day some new horror story emerges from the United Kingdom in which an ordinary citizen is treated as a terrorist for merely expressing an opinion or defending a personal belief.  A recent example involves thirty-four-year-old mother of four Elizabeth Kinney.  It appears Kinney and a former friend were texting about a male acquaintance who had allegedly caused Kinney harm, and she called that man a “faggot.”  The former friend reported Kinney to the authorities because the “abusive and homophobic text messages” caused her “alarm and distress.”  

While Kinney was naked and in a bathtub, eleven police officers forced their way into her home and arrested her.  Kinney burst into tears as male officers denied her any privacy, and a female officer informed her that she was being arrested for “malicious communications and hate crime.”  “The Crown place this offense in the highest category of its type due to the effect related to sexual orientation and the greater harm because it had moderate impact,” prosecutors insisted.  Kinney faced ten years in prison, but her attorney begged for leniency.  She has been ordered to perform seventy-two hours of community service, attend ten days of rehabilitation, and pay a fine of several hundred pounds.

All rights are property rights.  The “lesson” that British authorities are trying to “teach” Kinney and other citizens is this: You do not own the thoughts in your head.  You do not own the words you express.  You do not own the private messages that you text to other private citizens.  When your thoughts, words, and texts violate officially approved government “narratives” and ideologies, you will be punished.  Freedom of speech and freedom of conscience do not exist under any government willing to use force to control how citizens think, speak, and text.

In Kinney’s case, British authorities have no problem re-traumatizing a woman who had already been physically abused by sending a dozen cops into her home and forcing her to be naked, vulnerable, and afraid in front of male officers.  Instead, the Crown is upset that Kinney used a gay slur to describe someone not even directly participating in her text conversation with another woman.  When the State is more concerned about insults to men who have allegedly harmed women than the privacy and dignity of women who have allegedly been harmed, the government is complicit in the abuse of its citizens.  

There are only a handful of reasons this kind of European totalitarianism hasn’t similarly consumed the United States: (1) America’s First Amendment, (2) Americans’ more resilient love for personal liberty and hostility toward overreaching government, and (3) the Democrats’ inability to flood the 2024 election with enough fraudulent mail-in ballots to pull off back-to-back steals.  Democrats have been criminalizing “hate speech” for decades.  The Biden administration actively censored Americans’ online speech and attempted to erect a permanent “Disinformation Governance Board” within the Department of Homeland Security.  

Europe’s totalitarian assaults on free speech are therefore an ongoing national security threat to the United States.  “Protecting” people from “hate speech” has always been a government-contrived Trojan horse for censoring dissent and controlling the flow of information.

Right now Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is whining about random Americans calling him a “retard” after President Trump labeled the governor “seriously retarded” in a Thanksgiving post on Truth Social.  If Americans don’t vigilantly defend the First Amendment’s protections for free speech, then a future Democrat president will no doubt follow Europe’s example by sending well-armed law enforcement officers to Mar-a-Lago to arrest President Trump for hurting Tim Walz’s feelings.  It’s not as if the FBI hasn’t raided Trump’s home with lethal force before.

Europe’s descent into tyranny must be resisted, but a firewall preventing Europe’s tyranny from spreading beyond the ruin of its own continent is essential.

French President Emmanuel Macron wants the authority to block all online content that the government deems “false information.”  Additionally, he wants to establish a news media certification system that would give the State the power to create a veritable “ministry of truth.”  

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his political operatives have apparently been using an elaborate web of taxpayer-funded initiatives, billionaire-funded NGOs, and covert propaganda campaigns to target and cripple conservative news outlets in the United States.  The prime minister’s chief of staff has been accused of running a “shadowy astroturf organization” meant to censor conservatives, punish freedom of expression, and eliminate dissent.  Among the U.K. operation’s various objectives, its key mission has allegedly been to “Kill Musk’s Twitter.”

The European Union is so committed to destroying free speech on Elon Musk’s “X” that it has fined the social media platform hundreds of millions of dollars for violating the European Union’s new Digital Services Act.  The DSA empowers European bureaucrats and aristocrats to control most online information and allows the EU to elevate its preferred “narratives” over the opinions of common citizens.  

European governments are so afraid of Americans’ free speech that they are doing everything in their power to censor, fine, and criminally punish American citizens.  As Secretary of State Marco Rubio states plainly in a recent post on “X,” “The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.  The days of censoring Americans online are over.”

Censoring dissent is a sign of political weakness.  It is a telltale sign of Europe’s looming demise.  Any civilization so vulnerable that it cannot withstand opposing points of view certainly cannot withstand anything more pointed or explosive than uncomfortable words.  Governments that fear the private thoughts of the people know that their days are numbered.

Americans should support those in Europe who still believe in freedom and personal liberty.  We should ally ourselves with the millions who wish to live their lives free from government’s choking grip.  We should not continue supporting the governments doing the choking.  We share no common cause with tyrants.  To liberate the oppressed, Americans must allow European totalitarianism to destroy itself.

J. B. Shurk, American Thinker

“We must not clean up the mess that Biden created. We must clean up the mess that created Biden.”

Yes.

And that mess may be too big even for a Donald Trump, as amazing as he is. Increasingly, it looks to me like we need a real revolution. The people will have to want it and be behind it. MAGA was an impressive start.

What would a revolution look like? For starters, prosecuting and punishing all known traitors of the USA. We know who they are. President Trump has been trying to indict them, but so far is getting nowhere; felons and traitors James Comey and Letitia James will of course walk free, because our corrupt federal judicial system (to say nothing of the “jurists” in socialist blue states) will protect their own. Trump is trying to reform a system that has morphed into a dictatorship whether Trump is in office or not — and Trump will be gone in 3 more years anyway.

Another important key to a revolution: Defund everything not specified by the Constitution. It will create mayhem and will have economic consequences — short-term. But restoring a free market and private property rights, with a severely limited government which includes phasing out the Federal Reserve, will make America into the greatest civilization yet. Defund the schools, defund the Green New Deal research, defund all the ridiculous programs DOGE exposes — billions and billions of dollars in them. For a time earlier this year, we exposed some of that spending but the spending is still there.

MAGA is only a rather small beginning. It’s an important start, but only a start.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Earlier this week, Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) crooned: “As we enter the Advent season, we remember that the Holy Family themselves were migrants seeking safety.” It is a recurring motif to validate the resistance of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to curtailment of illegal immigration.

In November, the USCCB prepared for Advent by declaring war on the Trump administration with a “Special Pastoral Message on Immigration.” The insurrectionist tenor of this rare “special message” places the globalist conceits — and monetary interests — of the hierarchy ahead of the just laws of their own country.

Larded with scriptural citations isolated from historical context, the declaration erases distinctions between lawful immigration and waves of illicit, unvetted migrants. The term illegal does not appear. This is a calculated omission for emotional effect. Inaccurate wording disguises the USCCB’s self-interested opposition to the deportation of illegal immigrants by suggesting that immigration itself is under siege. The fear-mongering is deliberate.

Our bishops censure “the indiscriminate deportation of people.” But there is nothing indiscriminate about the process. The only people subject to detention by ICE are illegal aliens who have broken our immigration laws by choice.

Moreover, in May 2025, the Department of Homeland Security established generous protocols for travel assistance to aid self-deportation: a one-way ticket to a chosen destination, a $1,000 stipend, plus the opportunity to apply legally. Still, the USCCB hyperventilates about “vilification of immigrants,” “conditions in detention centers,” and “lack of access to pastoral care.”

“We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. . . . Catholic teaching exhorts nations to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons, including Immigrants,” the message states.

The bishops confer the endearment “our people” on illegal aliens but withhold it from taxpayers who subsidize mass migration. They offer lip service to secure borders and lawful immigration, but their hearts are elsewhere.

Where was concern for “dignity of all persons” and “access to pastoral care” during the Covid lockdown? Walmart stayed open while dioceses closed churches and restricted sacraments and funerals. There was no talk of “accompaniment” to the terminally ill in nursing homes. They died alone, deprived of any human touch. And often without the solace of last rites.

While liquor stores were deemed essential but churches not, the USCCB raised no challenge. But now, emboldened by Pope Leo’s distaste for immigration enforcement, it fights for open borders. Leo seconded the hostilities by denouncing U.S. policy toward illegal migrants as “extremely disrespectful.”

Promoting Law-breaking

The USCCB promotes a secularized version of love of neighbor that encourages law-breaking by “the poor” — a collective abstraction endowed with quasi-sacramental aura. In the Judeo-Christian moral system, neighbors do not steal from each other. But ideologues of a fabricated “preferential option for the poor” rephrase the battle cry of liberation theology as social justice. Only one side is obliged to act as neighbor. The other is entitled to take what it can.

The bishops were silent when then-President Joe Biden dismantled controls on illegal entry and invited mass migration through the southern border. They keep mum about the burden on border towns and cities flooded with foreign nationals claiming benefits that overwhelm local infrastructure and drain resources away from citizens.

Deflecting Scrutiny

Pontificating on “immigrant rights” deflects scrutiny into negligence by such bodies as USCCB’s Refugee Resettlement Program that works in concert with Catholic Charities’ Migrant and Refugee Services.

Our bishops have not accounted for the $449 million in taxpayer funds granted to the USCCB and Catholic Charities to monitor the safety of an alleged 450,000 minors (numbers vary) released to supposed sponsors. These “children” (the legal term for any minor under 18) fell off the radar. This July, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, stated that 90 percent of the addresses recorded for them were “fake, false, or abandoned.”

That our migrant epidemic is an orchestrated phenomenon is evident to everyone who witnessed caravans of illegal immigrants arriving in numbers calculated to disable border patrol. The USCCB, Catholic Charities, and their nexus of affiliates share culpability — however unintended — in the criminal predation that accompanied these organized and cartel-led caravans.

NGO Enablers

Among Catholic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) enabling illegal immigration, the USCCB has been a prime mover for decades. Add Catholic Charities, Caritas, Catholic Relief Services, and the Campaign for Human Development and their sub-contractors. The roster of facilitators is as elaborate as the Gaza tunnel system.

To illustrate: CLINIC, founded by the USCCB in 1988, is the largest nonprofit web of activist migration programs in the country. It maintains more than 400 Catholic and community-based immigration law providers in 49 states, offering legal representation and training defense lawyers in strategy before the courts. It boasts some 3,000 employees and serves about a half-million migrants a year.

The United Nations, too, is involved. In 2022, the Center for Immigration Studies reported that the U.N. Refugee Agency, which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, offers cash to U.S.-bound migrants, in addition to other assistance. It partners with Catholic NGOs, chiefly Catholic Charities and the International Catholic Migration Commission, which collaborates with the Vatican.

Catholic social services are not designed to solve the refugee problem. Rather, the labyrinth of NGOs enticing illegal migrants provides a framework for the trafficking industry.

In October, according to the latest available financial disclosure for 2023, the USCCB received more than 50 percent of its total revenues and more than 80 percent of its unrestricted revenue from the U.S. government. Unrestricted funds can be funneled anywhere, including back to the Vatican via Peter’s Pence.

That fund has a history of diverting monies from its charitable mission to bridge shortfalls in the Holy See’s budget. In July 2024, the Lepanto Institute marked Peter’s Pence as “Not Safe” for Catholic donations. Months later, the newly elected Leo solicited for the fund. (“Support the first steps of Pope Leo XIV. Donate to Peter’s Pence.”)

When diocesan agencies are federally funded, the USCCB has an incentive to maintain the migration pipeline. J.D. Vance was not wrong to wonder if the USCCB worried less about humanitarian concerns than “about their bottom line.”

Historical Differences

The social and economic realities of mass migration contradict the USCCB’s facile theologizing on open borders. Annexing of religious language is meant to convince the faithful that current sanctuary policy for illegals follows biblical precedent. It does not. It is agitprop that erases critical differences between today’s illegal aliens and the documented aliens and foreigners in biblical times. Guarded borders, writs of passage, and rules for expulsion were in effect in Abraham’s day. History subverts analogies between the Holy Family and today’s illegal migrants. Egypt garrisoned its borders. The Holy Family quite likely had to stop at a military post to request passage.

Yes, our own families came marked as “alien” on ship manifests. But they were legal aliens. They had waited in line in their native country for permission to enter. And they did not arrive in a welfare state. Entry was granted on condition that they would not become a burden on the public good.

USCCB dependence on government grants leaves American Catholics facing a crisis of authority. It pins them between deference to ecclesial leadership and respect for the just laws of an ordered nation. Thus does trust erode in the moral jurisdiction of our shepherds.

Maureen Mallarky, The Federalist