Urge Global Refuge to respond with accountability to Senate Judiciary Committee
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee requesting reports from NGOs resettling unaccompanied children
To: ELCA Bishops
bishop@elca.org, mhalom@nwswi.org, sbriner@swtsynod.org, paul.erickson@gmselca.org
From: Rev. Lowell Bolstad
Re: Urge Global Refuge to respond with accountability to Senate Judiciary Committee
As an ELCA pastor, I am writing to the ELCA presiding bishop, the bishop of the NW Synod of WI, and the synod bishops on the Board of Directors | Global Refuge (I wanted to email Global Refuge Krish O'Mara Vignarajah - President & CEO but could not find contact info and am not able to access Follow her on X @KrishVignarajah.) to urge Global Refuge - the largest faith-based national nonprofit dedicated to immigration & refugees - to comply with the request for accountability in the letter sent by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
NGOs contracting with HHS to resettle UACs in the U.S. received more than $9.3 billion in American taxpayer dollars but have refused to cooperate with Grassley’s investigation into the matter.
This week, Grassley sent letters to 23 NGOs involved in the UAC program, writing:
“[Last year], I sent an urgent inquiry to two dozen organizations that provided care for, or services related to, unaccompanied children in the custody of HHS. The organizations within the scope of my review have received over $9.3 billion in combined taxpayer funding from HHS and yet have chosen not to fully respond to Congress. I won’t accept further delay while children are at risk.
It’s unacceptable for recipients of taxpayer funding to refuse to provide information to Congress about the use of those funds. And it’s beyond unacceptable for these federally funded entities to refuse to answer questions designed to determine whether they protected children. I’m determined to protect UACs in U.S. custody and expose, through my oversight, fatal defects in the process for the purposes of ending child trafficking and other forms of exploitation.
Chuck Grassley Targets NGOs Who Raked in $9B Funneling Children into U.S.
@njhochman exposes the partisan action of many of these NGOs with their vested interests:
To be clear, these NGOs exist to subvert U.S. immigration law at every step of the process—actively transporting migrants into the country, fighting enforcement efforts at the border, resettling migrants in American towns and cities, and lobbying for open border policies in D.C.
And again, they've been doing it on your dime. For the past four years, The Biden State Department has been mainlining taxpayer funds to groups that run an end-to-end mass migration network, beginning deep in South America and finishing with resettlement in American communities.
Ten of these major immigration NGOs—known as VOLAGS ("Voluntary Agencies")—have contracts with the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), which provides them with the funding to resettle migrants in the U.S…
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@njhochman reveals how Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service possesses a big stake:
Or take the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. (Which, unlike the USCCB as an overall organization, is exclusively focused on immigration).
In FY 2023, 96.65% of their revenue came from federal grants and contracts to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Statement of Activities & Changes in Net Assets
Support & Revenue
2023 2022
Contributions-Private Sources
$7,761 $28,143
U.S. Government and State
$221,476 $179,864
Fees and Other Revenue
$1,585 $1,564
Total Support and Revenue
$230,822 $209,571
Dollars in thousands
Global Refuge 2023 Annual Report
Darren J. Beattie takes a deep dive on how the federal government in the Biden administration used charitable agencies to carry out immigrant resettlement. He focuses on Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS):
LIRS, like the other charities, isn’t a mere non-profit. It’s an appendage of the US government. Over 80 percent of its funding comes from the federal government. In 2018, it received $41,631,000 in state assistance…
However, LIRS isn’t even run by a Christian. Its current president and CEO is Krishanti (Krish) O’Mara Vignarajah, a Hindu woman with impeccable globalist credentials. She was born in Sri Lanka and came to the U.S. as a child. She has degrees from Yale and Oxford. Early in her career, she worked at McKinsey. Later on, she became a high-ranking staffer in the Obama administration. She worked as a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry at the State Department. She finished her time in the administration as Michelle Obama’s policy director. In 2018, she ran unsuccessfully for Maryland governor, earning a measly 8.2% in the Democratic primary…
These people are being dropped off in small towns with the help of agencies like LIRS. Your tax dollars pay for them to settle in and upend local cultures.
But that’s the whole purpose of refugee resettlement, according to Vignarajah. In a 2022 interview with Baltimore magazine, she made no reference to God or the Bible for why her group wants more immigrants in small towns. She instead sees immigration as a vehicle for cultural enrichment, a necessary response to climate change, and the solution to declining white birthrates…
Nejwa Ali and Krish Vignarajah perfectly represent the open-borders regime. Neither one is loyal to the historic American people. Neither one cares for the things that made America great. They just care about bringing more people like themselves to this country to fundamentally change it. Vignarajah’s control of a Chrisitan group to advance this mission exposes the rot in the refugee industry.
These groups aren’t really Christian. They’re just tentacles of the Globalist American Empire, deployed to help further the Great Replacement.
Unsurprisingly, under her leadership, LIRS Rebrands as Global Refuge.
Now, reality sets in as evidenced by the following plea: "Stand with refugees. URGENT: The government has halted all funding for recently arrived refugee families. Your support is needed now! DONATE"
Little wonder then that Global Refuge, headquartered in Baltimore, forced to lay off about 400 employees after Trump directive - CBS Baltimore
How do Global Refuge and the partisan sanctuary globalist bishops now expect Lutherans to donate to this work when the agency has dropped Lutheran and named it Global Refuge? Can you imagine the response in the pew to bulletin inserts from Global Refuge asking to fund foreign nationals entering this country without being fully vetted? Particularly, if congregation members learn that "Global Refuge CEO Krish O’Mara Vignarajah saw her salary rise from $244,000 a year to $520,000." The nonprofit organizations profiting from Biden’s border crisis, while the POTUS makes $400,000 and President-Elect Trump Will Forgo Presidential Salary For Second Term.
Questions of accountability deserve to be answered:
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service received $340.5 million in federal funding in 2024, and much more over the years…
The nonprofit changed its name last year to Global Refuge and is led by a politically connected President and CEO, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah. She previously worked for former President Barack Obama, and in the White House and as policy director for former First Lady Michelle Obama, and at the State Department as senior advisor under then-Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
Global Refuge has numerous government contracts and grants providing services for unaccompanied minors and refugees…
Global Refuge’s funding caught the attention of Gen. Michael Flynn this week, who posted some grant funding numbers on social media.
Now it’s the “Lutheran” faith (this use of “religion” as a money laundering operation must end): Lutheran Family Services and affiliated organizations receive massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, and the numbers speak for themselves. These funds, total BILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars. Here are just a few of the recent grants awarded (pre @RobertKennedyJr) by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH, INC: $134,190,472.95 LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA, INC.: $82,937,819.95 There are MANY more organizations cashing in on our hard-earned money. These entities are receiving huge sums, which raise serious questions about how taxpayer funds are being spent and who’s benefiting.
It’s time to hold these organizations accountable. American taxpayers deserve transparency. Enough is enough!
And there is much more where these screenshots below came from.
Taxpayers Spent Over $1 Billion On Migrant Pipeline
Relief agencies have profited from refugee resettlement as Spencer Lindquist gives an overall summation in Meet The NGOs Facilitating Mass Immigration Under The Banner Of Religion and includes a list of related articles.
If Global Refuge is so self-assured as indicated in Statement on Misinformation around our Humanitarian Work, then this agency should welcome transparency and provide requested information for the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. If not, maybe Krish O'Mara Vignarajah - President & CEO - Global Refuge should be compelled to appear before Hearings | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary in order to be questioned directly for the public to watch.
I recall ELCA declares self a 'sanctuary church body,' marches to ICE building in Milwaukee during the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly summary of actions "Adopted a memorial that affirms the ELCA's long-standing commitment to migrants and refugees and declares the ELCA a sanctuary church body" while POTUS 45 served in office.
During the last 4 years, I do not recall any statements from these partisan sanctuary globalist bishops in speaking truth to power how POTUS 46 made a cynical mockery of the immigration system by manipulating a mass migration network so that Democrats Import Foreign Nationals for Blue Votes and Cheap Labor by co-opting the religious left to provide a moral justification and by relying on these religious NGOs to act as contractors for the Democratic Party.