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Laura Ingraham attacks Catholic Charities for helping migrants
Ingraham: “No one wants to criticize Catholic Charities, but you can’t be facilitating illegal immigration”
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From the January 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Charles, we at the Angle have been reporting on this for many years, focusing primarily on Catholic Charities and Lutheran Services, but there are so many others across the country that are making so much money off the illegal immigration crisis. What do people need to know about these so-called charitable efforts?
CHARLES MARINO (GUEST): Well, what they need to know is the role that they've been playing the past four years at the request of the Biden administration, specifically with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. And that was, they were facilitating the largest human trafficking operation in the United States. They may have well been working directly for the Mexican cartels.
Let's also remember that 350,000 missing, unaccompanied minors were facilitated by these NGOs. There should be outrage here, not only from the American people, but by Congress. There needs to be an investigation forthwith to bring these CEOs to Congress and find out exactly what was going on. But for the American taxpayer to have to send billions of dollars to these NGOs to facilitate the entry of illegals into this country, to include criminals and terrorists, is unacceptable.
INGRAHAM: No, and I know Cardinal Dolan in New York was upset with J.D. Vance because he called out Catholic Charities and he's a practicing Catholic, but, I mean, you got to call this what it is, correct, Charles? I mean, no one wants to criticize Catholic Charities, but you can't be facilitating illegal immigration.
MARINO: Well, especially when these charities are setting up operations south of the border in Mexico and along the path of migration to educate these illegal migrants on how to gain entry into the United States.