Laken Riley’s murder at the hands of illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, GA was a tragedy. Yet, unfortunately, these incidents are increasingly commonplace in America. Guatemalan Ruano Garcia raped an 11-year-old girl in Utah. In Maryland, police arrested Salvadoran Nilson Granados-Trejo for murdering a 2-year-old boy. Between February 5-16, ICE claimed they arrested 275 illegal sex offenders during a nationwide campaign, though only after they were convicted within the States. But the damage was already done.
The invasion at the southern border is the number one issue facing America today. It negatively affects crime, inflation, rent and housing, and overall wages while terraforming America into a different country. Moreover, the people who illegally invade America are a financial burden for the country to bear, as the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 59% of noncitizen households use at least one welfare program compared to 39% of native-born households. This does not include the benefits of public education or other fiscal externalities that result from illegal immigration. Nor does it factor in the initial costs of the illegal’s arrival, whereupon claiming asylum could qualify for Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) which is free money for eight months. These people are, therefore, also thieves who steal from the populace through the abundance of welfare that the Biden Regime provides them. American immigration policy is functionally a wealth redistribution program that favors these people over the citizens.
The Andy Stanley Connection
What makes this worse is that liberal churches actually sponsor so-called refugees who are invading America, who end up being a drain on our collective resources and a blight to our communities through violent criminal activity. Performing the funeral for Laken Riley was Woodstock City Church, an affiliate of Andy Stanley’s Northpoint Community Church, which resides in the Atlanta metro area. For years, Andy Stanley’s church donated to Friends of Refugees, an NGO that sponsors the resettlement of so-called refugees from around the globe primarily in Clarkston, GA, an Atlanta suburb. Northpoint Ministries is listed as a donor in their 2022 annual report. For an organization that receives around $1.9 million in revenue, religious organizations contributed 11%. These liberal churches will mourn the death of Riley and countless others but will fail to realize that their actions contributed to their deaths in the form of a welcome mat for the criminals, rapists, and thieves coming across the border and invading America.
Clarkston, GA is the so-called Ellis Island of the South, a title celebrated by various organizations including Friends of Refugees and Send Relief. What started as a resettlement of Vietnamese dissidents in the aftermath of the Vietnam War has ballooned into a 1.4 square miles city where “60-70% of the population is foreign-born, resulting in more than 50 countries and 100 ethnic groups.” Recently, they are most known for importing immigrants from Islamic nations Syria or Afghanistan, of which the area has a ministry center that Send Relief sponsors. Compared to the 2000 census, Clarkston has been demographically terraformed. The city is in the 21st percentile in crime, meaning it is high crime while being a politically liberal hotbed. Per Washington Post, the influx of Afghans in 2021 created a housing crisis, which means that this Ellis Island spills over to the surrounding area. Importing a flood of people without increasing the housing supply leads to increased rent and property prices, which is a nationwide problem.
Even bigger than Northpoint Community Church is the Southern Baptist Convention’s Send Relief Program. With the SBC tension heating up, the role of Send Relief in sponsoring America’s immigration problem needs to be addressed, as they are worse than Andy Stanley.
El Buen Samaritano
Send Relief lists Lorenzo Ortiz’s ministry El Buen Samaritano as one of its partners in combatting the border crisis. The venture was started due to Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy, so Ortiz, a Mexican American, started crossing the border from Laredo, TX to aid the foreigners who were at the time being denied entry. This led to at least five shelters being created and funded by his network. Basically, they provide shelter to illegals who are on the border en route to America. In 2022, Ortiz was held hostage by a cartel and subsequently released after 29 hours without ransom.
El Buen Samaritano is in partnership with Fellowship Southwest, a pro-open borders ministry that sponsors numerous projects while being aligned with the Soros-backed Evangelical Immigration Table. They are essentially a political arm of the liberal Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Ostensibly, Ortiz is facilitating illegal immigration on both sides of the border to the detriment of Laredo, TX. Send claims that he helps 150-250 per day, which is tens of thousands annually. They are but a rest stop towards the end of their journey to America. And Send Relief boasts of contributing to those actively helping Ortiz aid those invading America while concealing the fact that he is affiliated with the theologically progressive CBF.
In late 2022, Send Relief established a ministry center in Laredo in partnership with Texas Baptists, reflecting an increased focus in Laredo, TX. The Baptist General Convention of Texas is not the same as the SBC of Texas, but the Baptist affiliate of the apostate Baylor University. In FY2023, the BGCT received $300,000 from NAMB. Whereas the CBF is the progressive Baptists, the BGCT is the moderate/liberal Baptists, as they will oust churches for gay deacons, but embrace women “pastors.” Though less prominent, their Christian Life Commission is similar to the ERLC but objectively worse on issues of race, crime, and immigration.
As Send Relief expands its presence, its partnerships in Laredo are taking on increasing liberalism. This trend is apparent across their border-related projects.
City Church Del Rio
Send Relief lists the City Church of Del Rio as one of the partners in providing border relief. City Church Del Rio is an SBC church and holds to the BFM 2000. At one point, this church was CBF, but the reference was stricken from their bylaws in 2018.
Send Relief’s states the following:
Led by missions pastor Shon Young, the border ministry at City Church Del Rio is faithfully serving nearly 100 people a day by providing food, clothes, hygiene kits and the use of a shower trailer to refugee families in need of respite.
This information is outdated as Shon Young is no longer listed on their church staff and they have an active associate pastor vacancy to fill the spot previously held by Young. Young remains listed as a River Ministry Coordinator for the Baptist General Convention of Texas and operates a nonprofit called Young Living Stones, where he sponsors a shelter in Acuna, Mexico that also receives money from Fellowship Southwest. Shon Young is the President of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition (VVBHC), which facilitates transportation for illegals passing through Del Rio. This project is the offshoot of which Send Relief money was likely distributed as the description and personnel match. The church’s Facebook, though somewhat inactive, also confirms this coordination along with the inclusion of other churches coming to them to work with this project. A video of their operations can be seen here, where a worker is shown passing out envelopes that contain papers and money denominated in $10 bills. Tiffany Burrow is the current face and Director of Operations for VVBHC.
VVBHC states on their website:
The Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition (VVBHC) is a nonprofit that currently relies entirely on volunteers and donations to meet asylum seekers’ short-term needs. Upon arrival, volunteers strive to meet the immediate needs of individuals, families and children. We distribute meals, snacks, water, hygiene items, clothing, shoes, infant and children’s items, infant car seats, access to charging stations and phones, restrooms, seating areas and shade.
Our Coalition connects individuals and families to transportation options as they continue their travels out of Del Rio.
After rewarding them for breaking into America, they then provide them with free food and goodies before a taxpayer-sponsored bus transports them deeper into the country. They further coordinate with other groups in the destination cities to further help the illegals. They lease a community center that operates as a shelter and makeshift bus station. Immigrants get dropped off by Border Patrol and subsequently served before they get on their buses and leave. In 2023, they purported to have helped 57,338 illegals. Del Rio, TX is one of many border towns that has been devastated by the invasion. VVBHC is one of the more notorious Baptist NGOs involved in facilitating mass migration.
El Paso Migrant Center
The El Paso Migrant Center is a joint project with the El Paso Baptist Association a local Southern Baptist association. The migrant center is operated out of Grandview Christian Center, which is an SBC church in El Paso. Send Relief states the following:
Launched as a collaborative effort of Baptist churches, the migrant center offers wrap-around services for families in need of physical and spiritual refreshment. Staff offer personalized assistance to help translate paperwork and navigate language barriers in immigration documentation, as well as showers and packages of basic necessities.
Whereas on their website, they imply that they only serve their physical needs and provide clothing and toiletries, the SBC is claiming that they assist them with their legal documents, which is further facilitating their bogus asylum claims which they use to gain permanent residency in the US. Meaning, that they are helping them lie on their paperwork to gain legal status, which is overtly aiding sinful behavior.
They argue that “no matter what our political views are, migrants are here, we can choose to ignore or serve them. I choose to serve them.” However, El Paso is one of the hotspots for the migrant invasion that is devastating America. Jose Antonio Ibarra entered America by way of El Paso. By assisting these people, they are both rewarding them and perpetuating criminal activity throughout their local community and across the United States.
Brownsville, Texas
West Brownsville Baptist Church is located in a southeastern Texas border town and is a Southern Baptist Church pastored by Carlos Navarro, himself an illegal immigrant who received amnesty under the Reagan Administration. He began his Golan Ministry to service the illegals which eventually turned his church into a shelter during 2020, something he achieved using funding from Fellowship Southwest. On their website, Send mentions Olber Roblero of Iglesia Bautista Horeb, which partners with 20 churches, including Navarro’s in its efforts. Send Relief has been contributing to these efforts since at least 2021.
Though not the largest or busiest border town, the impact of the invasion is still felt, and the closed border under Title 42 led to a 37% decrease in crime, placing them below the national average only for this to be undone as crime has jumped by 30.43% in 2022 and 2.45% in 2023, trending back towards pre-covid levels.
Conclusion
The Southern Baptist Send Relief is actively facilitating the invasion at the border under the guise that they are serving the “least of these” or leading migrants to Christ. Make no mistake, these people are criminals, not refugees. They claim asylum because that is what they know will allow them to stay and gain access to the welfare state. This is moral hazard, not charity.
The Good Samaritan argument holds no water because to help these invaders is to actively harm one’s own countryman. The Good Samaritan assisted his neighbor to the benefit of his other neighbors, not their detriment. He did not pass the “problem” to the innkeeper, but rather the opposite, vowing to repay if there were excess costs accrued. This is robbing Peter to pay Paul, taking from one law-abiding neighbor to reward another’s criminal activity. If these people were truly repentant, they would cease being lawbreakers in America and return to their native lands and be upstanding citizens wherever they are from, not milk the remainder of American decadence while serving the satanic replacement agenda.
The world of NGOs sponsoring the migrant invasion into America has no limits. Both the UN and China are involved while Catholic NGOs like Annunciation House and Jewish NGOs like HIAS, supported even by alleged conservative Ben Shapiro, actively support the border invasion. People are dying because of this, and the Southern Baptist Convention is not exempt from facilitating criminals into the country.
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