The Homeland Security House Committee Chairman is probing over 200 organizations.
By Catholics for Catholics
As the Homeland Security House Committee Chairman started an investigation of over 200 NGOs under suspicion of helping fuel the worst border crisis in American history, several Catholic groups are also included on that list.
The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and Catholic Charities are included among the groups investigated by Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.), Subcommittee Chairman. According to the New York Post, Green and Brecheen sent letters to 215 organizations Tuesday.
Catholics for Catholics President John C. Yep welcomed a federal investigation, including the probe on the USCCB and Catholic Charities. “…Specifically see if they participated in the facilitating and illegal invasion of our country by misuse of government grants,” Yep said. “This gives Catholics great hope as we understand that our church needs accountability to restore public confidence and trust.”
Yep said, “And, with the hope that at some point an investigation can be done if there was knowledge or cooperation with some of the sex trafficking that was going on through the adoption process of these unaccompanied minors, if they were taking place at NGO facilities along the Southern border by Catholic Charities.”
Yep added: “If there was knowledge or complicity in these acts then those individuals need to be brought to justice to restore the name and good faith of these Catholic apostolates.”
One of the groups that is being investigated is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which received almost $1 million in DHS grants to “offer both citizenship instruction and naturalization application services to lawful permanent residents” in 2021, the New York Post reported. The Trump administration terminated the funds in March.
It was CHIRLA that organized a rally last week against the ICE raids that grew into full-fledged riots in Los Angeles. Rioters burned cars, launched rocks at vehicles, looted stores and attacked law enforcement officers.
“We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally,” a CHIRLA rep previously told The Post in a statement.
DHS officials said that the ICE raids arrested gang members, drug dealers and convicted sex abusers.
Another group that is also under investigation according to The New York Post is Southwest Key Programs, which is the biggest housing nonprofit for unaccompanied minors that entered the country. The Biden administration’s Health and Human Services gave them around $3 billion.
The Post wrote, “between 2021 and 2023, Southwest Key’s top five executives saw their salaries inflated on average from $420,000 to $720,000 — even as the organization outspent its revenue by millions of dollars.”
“The Justice Department sued Southwest Key Programs in July 2024, alleging that some supervisors and employees had committed “severe” and “pervasive” rape and sex abuse against kids between 2015 and 2023.”
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