By John Cassara, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 16, 2023
John Cassara is a retired U.S. Treasury Special Agent. His area of expertise is anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. His most recent book is China – Specified Unlawful Activities – CCP Inc, Transnational Crime and Money Laundering. You can visit his website at www.JohnCassara.com.
The love of money is the root of all evils. (1 Timothy 6:10)
Is the Church enabling criminality and facilitating the oppression of the immigrants we are hoping to help?
The open border and uncontrolled influx of millions of people have devastating consequences. It is a true crisis.
Over the last two-and-a-half years, over 7 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States. That number does not include those who escaped detection and are not in any official counts. By the end of 2024, it is projected that well over ten percent of the population will be here illegally.
The results of President Biden’s decision not to enforce border laws and the massive illegal immigrant flow takes various forms. Challenges include drug and human trafficking, child abuse, sexual exploitation, indentured servitude and other labor crimes, environmental crimes, gang violence, assorted welfare frauds, national security concerns, money laundering, homelessness and squalor on the streets of American cities and towns, and the corrosive effects of flaunting the rule of law. …