Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 13, 2025 / 18:09 pm (CNA).
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability have announced the launch of an investigation into more than 200 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including two major Catholic nonprofits, that provided taxpayer-funded services to migrants during the Biden administration.
Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are among those named in the investigation. According to a June 11 press release, the probe will investigate whether the NGOs “used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity” by migrants who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
All the NGOs named in the investigation have been sent a letter requesting that they fill out a survey. The letter also expresses concern that some of the NGOs continue to actively advise “illegal aliens on how to avoid and impede law enforcement officials, which can only be seen as an attempt to undermine the work of the federal government.”
“The chairmen request each NGO complete a survey that includes questions on the government grants, contracts, and disbursements they have received; any lawsuits against the U.S. federal government they are petitioning; amicus briefs they have filed in any lawsuit brought against the U.S. federal government; any legal service, translation service, transportation, housing, sheltering, or any other form of assistance provided to illegal immigrants or unaccompanied alien children since January 2021; and more,” the press release stated.
USCCB spokesperson Chieko Noguchi told CNA that “we have received the questionnaire and will respond.”
“For over 45 years the USCCB has entered into agreements with the federal government to serve groups of people specifically authorized by the federal government to receive assistance,” Noguchi said. She added that “this included refugees, people granted asylum, unaccompanied children, victims of human trafficking, and Afghans who assisted the U.S. military abroad.”
The investigation comes after the USCCB announced in April that it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government on migration and refugee services, which had been ongoing for nearly half of a century. The USCCB began phasing out its programs shortly after.
The Biden administration provided the USCCB with more than $100 million annually, which the bishops allocated to affiliated Catholic nongovernmental organizations, according to the USCCB’s audited financial statements. In recent years, federal funding covered more than 95% of the bishops’ spending on the programs.
Other non-Catholic NGOs named as subjects of the probe include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), and the Haitian Bridge Alliance.
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Lovely, so very proud, once again CC name in the mud.
If you aid and abet someone in breaking the law, you are an accomplice and you, too, are breaking the law. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, its bishop and its Catholic Charities have been breaking the law. So have many other dioceses in the USA. The only remaining question is whether the Catholic Church should lose its tax-exempt status.
To the bishops: If you jump into bed with Satan, don’t expect some ill effect.
That should read, “To the bishops: If you jump into bed with Satan, don’t expect some ill effect not to happen.”
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In April, the USCCB decided “not to renew” US government agreements to help ‘migrants,’ ‘refugees,’ and ‘unaccompanied minors’. The truth: Trump cut their funding. USCCB had no choice.
USCCB’s president Bishop Broglio: “All participants in these programs were welcomed by the U.S. government to come to the United States,” Broglio said.
The USCCB defense is they helped illegals settle because the Biden administration paid them to do that. The USCCB position on helping migrants, refugees, and unaccompanied minor children crossing the border illegally? You are welcome.
Who is duping whom?