Does John D Davidson Read My Blog?

We've noted that Catholic "Charities" is probably violating Federal (and State) criminal law with its financing of aid to human traffickers.  See here, and here, and more here, not to mention here, too!  So happens that it's possibly Remote Material Cooperation, so not only illegal, but ALWAYS sinful.

We're not the only ones.  John Daniel Davidson is on the same track.

The news last week that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter in El Paso struck many as an unjust attack on both migrants and the faith-based groups that assist them. Catholics leaders, especially, were outraged that Paxton would target Annunciation House, which has sheltered migrants for five decades, as part of the state’s escalating efforts to secure the border and crack down against illegal immigration....

Naturally, +Seitz of El Paso had a smart-aleck and highly misleading response:

...In a statement last week, Seitz denounced what he called “an escalating campaign of intimidation, fear, and dehumanization in the State of Texas” and “the targeting of those who would offer aid as a response of faith.” In the bishop’s telling, Annunciation House is merely acting on a “Catholic commitment to the poor.”...

Sure, Excellency.  We all believe every word you say, Excellency. /sarc

 ...Helping the poor and welcoming the stranger doesn’t mean becoming complicit in what amounts to the largest human-trafficking operation in history, and Texas is well within its rights to scrutinize nonprofits like Annunciation House. The border crisis is sprawling and complex, with many actors—some of them bad ones.

Part of what Paxton is trying to figure out is whether Annunciation House is actively assisting illegal immigration. In a statement last week, Paxton’s office suggested that the shelter might be “facilitating illegal entry to the United States, alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.”...

Paxton cannot afford a mis-fire here.  He's done his homework. 

 ...The key thing to understand is that every person who crosses the border has been trafficked. Some 10 million illegal aliens haven’t spontaneously entered the United States over the past three years. They are part of a vast, for-profit enterprise, a human pipeline that spans Mexico and much of Central and South America, and continues deep into the United States....

LOTS more at the link.

Still fool enough to think about contributing to Catholic "Charities"?  Yah, well, the narco/sex/human trafficking MS-13 guy in your neighborhood thanks you!