Bishop James Martin spends nearly every waking hour attacking President Trump and Border Czar Tom Homan for the grave offense of enforcing the law. From his social media pulpit, he has transformed border enforcement into a sin and transformed illegal immigration into a sacrament. The problem, however, is not that the United States is too strict. The problem is that the Catholic Church has been preaching lawlessness for decades, and now the flood they helped unleash is drowning the very nation they lecture. The bishops and clerics who rail against enforcement are not outsiders commenting from a distance. They are active saboteurs of American sovereignty. They are not just bleeding hearts. They are blood-soaked hands.
Every crisis needs a cause, and the border disaster did not begin with Trump or Homan or even Obama. It began in cathedrals and chapels. It began with sermons whispered in Spanish and Latin telling millions across the Third World that America owes them safe passage and shelter, regardless of the laws of the land. Catholic teaching in the modern era has normalized illegal immigration, not simply by omission, but by aggressive affirmation. From the Vatican balcony to the barrio parish, the message has been consistent: if you want to cross the border, God bless you, and do not let anything or anyone stop you.
Pope Francis, a globalist in cassock and stole, repeatedly condemned border security measures. He once declared that those who build walls instead of bridges are not Christians. What he failed to acknowledge is that the Church he oversaw has no walls (except the one around the Vatican, keeping out the riff-raff. It is a theological open-border zone where obedience to civil law is treated as a quaint suggestion. While the Pope knelt to wash the feet of migrants in Italy, his clergy were washing away any moral distinction between legal and illegal action. He spoke of mercy as if it overrides justice, as if compassion must always come at the expense of law, as if the moral thing is whatever feels nice in the moment. That is not theology. That is sentimental anarchy. And the new Pope appears to be just as bad, or worse, than the last.
LAWLESSNESS IN A CLERICAL COLLAR
In Latin America, Catholic priests bless caravans. They hold Mass for migrants preparing to cross into the United States illegally. They preach sermons about dignity and hope and divine guidance on the journey north. They do not preach about respecting the sovereignty of the nation they are about to invade. They do not preach about honoring the laws of the land they hope to inhabit. They do not preach about repentance for criminal behavior. Instead, they grant the aura of spiritual righteousness to the act of national trespass. Every pat on the back they give to a border crosser is a slap in the face to the American citizen who must pay the price. The priest may carry a crucifix, but the message he carries is more aligned with Marx than Matthew.
The Catholic Church has not merely failed to stop illegal immigration. It has championed it. The Church has given spiritual permission to violate American immigration laws under the false pretense of Christian love. This is not just a misunderstanding. It is a heresy. True Christian love does not rejoice in wrongdoing. It does not call criminality a virtue. It does not manipulate the hearts of the poor and desperate into believing that their sin is a service to God. When bishops and cardinals suggest that it is more holy to violate immigration law than to obey it, they are not proclaiming the gospel. They are perverting it.
This is the context in which Bishop James Martin must be understood. He is not just a rogue voice. He is the standard-bearer of a Roman Catholic strategy that systematically undermines American immigration law by framing it as immoral. His endless commentary on Twitter is not a side project. It is a continuation of a mission that the Church has been pursuing through homilies, media, and policy advocacy for decades. The Church presents itself as the Good Samaritan, but plays the part of the bandit who points the traveler in the wrong direction and then blames the system when they fall into a ditch.
Even the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states that nations have the right to regulate their borders, is routinely ignored by the same clergy who cite every other passage as infallible. The bishops quote selectively. They draw on verses that speak of welcoming the stranger, but ignore the historical and legal context of such commands. The Israelites were told to love the sojourner, not the lawbreaker. In the New Testament, the apostles call believers to obey the governing authorities, not to storm foreign borders and claim spiritual immunity. When Catholic clergy preach open borders as a moral imperative, they are not exegeting Scripture. They are distorting it for political ends.
A SIN OF PAPAL PROPORTIONS
In the minds of many Latin American Catholics, the journey north is not just an economic migration. It is a spiritual pilgrimage. The priests have sanctified the path. They have made it a road paved with indulgences, not of heaven, but of American entitlement. They have told their people that God is on their side, even if the law is not. That message is deadly. It is deadly to those who cross, risking rape, exploitation, dehydration, and death. It is deadly to the rule of law, which cannot survive if obedience is optional. And it is deadly to the moral credibility of a Church that claims to speak for truth while endorsing falsehood.
Bishop Martin, in particular, has made it his mission to paint enforcement officials as villains. He casts Tom Homan as a cold enforcer of bureaucratic cruelty, ignoring the fact that Homan is carrying out the laws passed by elected representatives. Martin does not live in a border town. He does not witness the drug trafficking, the sex trade, the chaos, the bodies. He sees only the tears that fit his narrative. He is not a pastor. He is a propagandist. He does not shepherd souls. He shepherds mobs.
The Catholic clergy who promote illegal immigration are not offering charity. They are offering lies. They are lying to the migrants by telling them that their cause is just. They are lying to the American people by telling them that their laws are unjust. They are lying to themselves by pretending that compassion is incompatible with boundaries. A nation that cannot control its borders cannot protect its citizens. And a church that refuses to acknowledge law cannot claim moral authority over those who do.
When the dust settles on this immigration catastrophe, the blame will not lie with border agents or politicians who tried to uphold the law. It will lie with the bishops who betrayed their office, the priests who blessed the crime, and the pontiff who traded the keys of Peter for the slogans of the global left. The Catholic Church does not merely tolerate illegal immigration. It preaches it. It does not merely permit the invasion. It sanctifies it. And if there is any justice left in the world, the clergy who made this happen will one day answer for it—not just before the people whose nation they helped destroy, but before the God whose name they used in vain.
A GLOBAL SYSTEM BUILT BY COLLARS AND CONTRACTS
The border crisis is not the result of accident or inevitability. It is the consequence of careful planning, deliberate funding, and a logistical network that begins in the chapels of Central America and ends in the neighborhoods of middle America. The Roman Catholic Church has long portrayed itself as a bystander, or at most a first responder to a humanitarian crisis. In truth, it is the architect of the operation. From pulpit to policy to payment, the Church has constructed a transnational pipeline that brings the Third World to the United States, and it has done so with both religious authority and financial muscle.
Catholic Charities USA, the public face of the Church’s social services arm, receives over a billion dollars in annual revenue, much of it from federal agencies tasked with enforcing the very laws the Church works to undermine. Between 2008 and 2021, Catholic Charities and its affiliates received more than three billion dollars in federal grants and contracts. These are not donations from parishioners moved by mercy. These are taxpayer dollars funneled into an institution that actively organizes and facilitates the resettlement of foreign nationals who have broken U.S. immigration law. The Church does not simply help the poor. It arranges their travel, finances their stay, and positions itself as the indispensable middleman between foreign lawbreakers and the American system tasked with managing them.
The same clergy who lambast ICE and demonize border patrol agents are managing complex NGO operations in partnership with USAID, FEMA, HHS, and the Department of Homeland Security. These partnerships are not reluctant or minimal. They are institutionalized, formalized, and contractual. The bishops have become brokers. They negotiate federal reimbursements for every migrant they help process. They write grant proposals in the morning and sermons against nationalism in the evening. They stand at the intersection of power and piety, manipulating both to serve a vision of globalist humanitarianism dressed up as Christian compassion
HOW THE CHURCH PAYS FOR THE INVASION
To understand how deeply the Church is involved in transporting illegal immigrants, one must stop thinking in terms of charity and start thinking in terms of supply chain. The typical image of a migrant crossing a desert on foot, desperate and alone, is a fiction. In its place is a cold logistics operation. Migrants are routed through networks that stretch from Catholic missions in Honduras and Guatemala to shelters and processing centers in Texas and Arizona. At each point along the route, Catholic agencies are present, offering food, medical care, legal advice, and above all, transportation.
In Mexico and Central America, Church-operated waystations offer not only comfort but coordination. Migrants are given information on which crossings are safest, which shelters are accepting new arrivals, which U.S. cities are more welcoming, and which counties provide the most generous benefits. They are handed paperwork, told which narratives will strengthen their asylum claims, and encouraged to seek out diocesan services upon arrival. These are not accidental acts of kindness. They are components of a system designed to optimize traffic across the border. Behind every gesture of hospitality is a spreadsheet, a grant application, a transportation schedule, and a network of clergy and case managers who know exactly what they are doing. The smiling nun with the clipboard is not just helping the poor. She is coordinating a transfer of populations.
Catholic Relief Services and Jesuit Refugee Service, two of the most active international arms of the Church, receive millions annually from USAID and similar institutions. These groups work overseas to promote economic development, or so their mission statements claim. In reality, they operate as recruitment centers, often encouraging emigration while providing the theological cover needed to ease consciences. In sermons, migrants are told that they are not just escaping poverty but fulfilling a divine calling. They are told that their journey is a cross to bear, a pilgrimage of purpose. The United States is not a foreign land to them. It is a promised land, and the Church is the Red Sea parting before them.
Much of the transportation is handled directly by Catholic-linked groups that purchase bus tickets, arrange flights, and maintain fleets of vehicles used to shuttle migrants between shelters and border checkpoints. These vehicles do not bear the name of any cartel, but they may as well. They are part of the same apparatus. Buses funded by Catholic Charities roll into border towns on tight schedules, bringing human cargo under the banner of ecclesiastical mercy. There is no theological review board overseeing the process. No moral filter that distinguishes a mother with children from a trafficker with product. There is only a quota to be met, a budget to be justified, and a mission to continue. At no point in this process is the law of the United States treated with respect or seriousness. It is seen as an obstacle to navigate, not a boundary to honor.
THE CHURCH THAT PROFITS FROM CHAOS
The American taxpayer foots the bill, not just for the border enforcement but for the very Church that works against it. Federal funding flows to Catholic agencies with almost no public oversight. Once the money is disbursed, the government looks the other way while the bishops redistribute it as they see fit. These same bishops, who enjoy tax-exempt status and preach about the evils of nationalism, are financially dependent on the very system they claim to despise. They speak with the indignation of prophets but live off the largesse of Caesar. They wage war against the law while dining at the treasury of its enforcers.
Their partners are not limited to government bureaucrats. The Catholic migration network has joined hands with secular globalists, private foundations, and even explicitly anti-Christian organizations who share one common goal—the demographic transformation of the West. The Church provides the moral scaffolding for an agenda that would otherwise be seen for what it is: organized lawbreaking in pursuit of ideological conquest. The bishops wrap it in liturgy and lace it with sacraments, but beneath the holy robes is a raw political calculus. Their alliance with the globalist machine has nothing to do with evangelism or salvation. It is about relevance, leverage, and control. In the age of collapsing church attendance, what better way to remain useful to the state than by managing the influx of voters, laborers, and welfare dependents?
The result is not compassion. It is colonization. The Church has replaced the missionary impulse with the managerial instinct. It no longer seeks to baptize the nations. It seeks to manage their movement. It no longer aims to make disciples of all peoples. It aims to bring all peoples into the backyard of the global north, regardless of law or consequence. In doing so, it has become an international smuggling syndicate with chapels instead of safehouses, rosaries instead of rifles, and federal grants instead of drug money. But the destination is the same: a border overwhelmed, a nation broken, and a civilization reordered.
When citizens wonder how tens of thousands of foreign nationals arrive each month with such ease, they would do well to look beyond the political class. They must look beyond the cartels, beyond the coyotes, even beyond the bureaucrats. They must look toward the cathedrals. They must look at the priests who pay the fares, the bishops who sign the contracts, and the popes who condemn the very laws they help circumvent. The men who fund the migrant invasion do not wear ski masks or camouflage. They wear robes. They carry incense. They sign checks and quote Scripture. And when the walls fall, they lift their hands in feigned innocence, pretending they did not design the breach from the beginning.
THE FINAL LEG OF THE OPERATION
By the time an illegal immigrant crosses the border, the machinery of Catholic complicity is already in full swing. The journey did not begin on foot. It began with permission granted in the pulpit. It continued with a seat paid for by a Catholic NGO. It is completed by a network of churches, charities, and diocesan contractors who finish the job by helping the immigrant disappear. The Church is not merely a commentator on the immigration crisis. It is the central actor. It recruits, it funds, and then it launders. No sooner has the migrant entered the country than a Catholic caseworker is preparing their intake file, setting them up with housing, school enrollment, and legal assistance to evade deportation.
These are not isolated acts of individual mercy. They are institutional programs, backed by federal funding and protected by the moral aura of religion. The American people are told they must tolerate the flood of illegality because it is compassionate. But there is nothing compassionate about the chaos that follows. The migrant is not invited to assimilate. He is taught to navigate a system designed to shield him from the consequences of his unlawful entry. The Church does not urge repentance. It offers legal coaching. It does not preach obedience. It teaches avoidance. And all of it is wrapped in the language of Christian care.
Catholic Charities USA operates housing programs in dozens of U.S. cities specifically designed to receive and relocate undocumented migrants. These are not emergency shelters or short-term humanitarian operations. They are permanent, taxpayer-funded resettlement centers. Many of them work hand-in-glove with city governments, school districts, and public health departments. Once inside these programs, migrants are connected with employment opportunities, medical services, education for their children, and legal defense teams. None of this is free. But none of it is paid for by the Church itself. The taxpayer subsidizes the resettlement, while the bishops claim the credit.
The shelters are only one layer. Catholic legal aid organizations aggressively defend migrants in deportation hearings, coach them through the asylum process, and exploit every loophole available in immigration law. These groups do not merely defend the innocent. They shield the guilty. They make no distinction between a mother and a gang member. They file motions, write affidavits, and pressure immigration judges to act in favor of clients who entered illegally and refuse to leave. They are not helping people escape persecution. They are helping them escape justice. It is not ministry. It is obstruction of federal law.
FROM HARBORING TO OBSTRUCTION
For decades, certain Catholic parishes have proudly identified as “sanctuary churches.” They publicly declare their willingness to defy federal law and refuse cooperation with immigration enforcement. They issue press releases. They hold vigils. They drape banners over their facades proclaiming that all are welcome and no one is illegal. In many cases, they actively harbor individuals who have already been ordered deported by a federal court. These churches operate as safehouses in a sprawling resistance movement that sees federal immigration law not as a standard to uphold, but as a sin to confess and correct.
The legal basis for their defiance is thin, but the political cover is thick. Few prosecutors dare go after a church. Few agents are willing to raid a parish rectory. The bishops understand this. They use the First Amendment as a fortress from which to launch a quiet war against immigration enforcement. Under the cover of conscience, they protect criminals. Under the name of Christ, they obstruct justice. And in the press, they are portrayed as holy warriors standing for compassion in the face of cruelty. But no one asks what happens to the neighborhoods where these migrants are released. No one asks what happens to the jobs displaced, the hospitals overwhelmed, the families who must compete for resources with individuals who never should have entered in the first place.
Catholic hospitals, schools, and food pantries complete the circuit. Each institution serves as a reinforcement of permanence. These are not emergency stops along the road. They are anchors, placed deliberately to keep the immigrant in place and entrench his presence in the community. These institutions receive federal reimbursements for services provided to undocumented migrants. They are compensated through Medicare, Medicaid, and social services block grants. It is a shadow economy built on unlawful entry, sustained by religious nonprofit status, and paid for by the people whose borders were violated.
THE IMMIGRANT AS CLIENT AND CURRENCY
To the Catholic bureaucrat, the migrant is not a soul to be saved. He is a metric. He is a justification for funding. He is a data point to show government partners that the program is working. The more migrants served, the more grants renewed. The more families placed, the more contracts extended. In this way, the illegal immigrant is both client and currency. The bishops have created a feedback loop in which illegal immigration fuels nonprofit growth, and nonprofit growth fuels illegal immigration. At no point is the law upheld. At no point is the American citizen consulted. The entire enterprise runs on inertia and intimidation. Any who question it are labeled bigots. Any who resist it are smeared as xenophobes.
The priests who once ministered to their flock now administer a system of resettlement more sophisticated than most government programs. They have social workers, intake coordinators, program evaluators, and legal teams. They employ tens of thousands and answer to no one. Their chain of accountability runs not to the state, nor to the people, but to a global vision of borderless humanity. The Church has become a spiritual shipping company, a divine relocation agency whose cross is its credential and whose doctrine is a mask for globalist ambition.
The moral implications are staggering. Catholic leadership claims that its actions are based in love. But love without law is chaos.
TIME TO INDICT THE CLERGYMEN
If these actions were being carried out by a secular organization, or worse, by a foreign government, they would be treated as hostile acts. If a mosque in Dearborn or a leftist nonprofit in New York ran an operation this sophisticated to violate federal immigration law, there would be hearings, subpoenas, prosecutions. But because the perpetrators wear collars, because they wave rosaries and quote Scripture, they are permitted to continue without scrutiny. It is time for that to end. The bishops must be held accountable for the system they built. The clerics who transport, house, and shield illegal migrants must face the same legal consequences as the migrants they protect.
The American people are not obliged to fund their own national suicide. They are not required to bankroll the logistical operations of foreign colonization. They do not owe sanctuary to those who entered illegally, and they certainly do not owe reverence to the men who made it possible. The Catholic Church in America has leveraged its religious freedom to wage war against the nation's laws. It has violated the trust of the public, the limits of its nonprofit status, and the boundaries of its moral authority. If the nation is to reclaim its sovereignty, it must be willing to confront the institutions that betrayed it from within. That confrontation must begin with the bishops.
Let the record show what they have done. They told the migrants to come. They paid for their journey. They housed them, coached them, and protected them from the law. And now they claim the moral high ground, built on the backs of the taxpayers whose country they helped invade. It is not charity. It is conspiracy. It is not a ministry. It is an insurgency. And the men who wear robes while orchestrating it should not be venerated. They should be indicted.
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