Early in April, the Inter-American Division posted a story on ANN (which has since been run by Adventist World and the Review) about how ADRA is assisting “migrant families . . . in their quest north”:
For nearly six months, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Honduras has been providing assistance to more than 750 migrant families who, day by day, make the long trek from South America, through Honduras, in their quest north.
The assistance, which started as an effort to help Haitian migrant families, saw ADRA leaders and volunteers moving quickly to provide food and basic needs. More than 3,000 Haitians passed through the cities bordering Honduras and Nicaragua last year.
“We are seeing an average of 200–300 Haitian migrants each week, but it can fluctuate, with some weeks increasing significantly,” said Luis Trundle, ADRA Honduras director.
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Although the assistance is mainly for Haitian migrant families, the project has been opened to other families from different nationalities.
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With a voucher worth US$23.00, a migrant family of four is able to buy canned foods, bread, crackers, peanut butter, personal hygiene products, medicines and anything they choose to help them on their journey.
ADRA Honduras has been very involved in caring for the migrants for several years now, alongside other non-government organizations, said Trundle. In addition to the current voucher program, ADRA has been running hydration stations for thousands of migrants in transit north, in coordination with UNICEF and other non-government agencies in Choluteca and El Paraiso.
Right now, the ADRA project to assist migrant families is nearly ending, said Trundle. The project has been budgeted to benefit 950 migrant families, thanks to assistance from ADRA International and ADRA Inter-America. Leaders at ADRA Honduras are hoping to extend the project for two additional months. In addition, plans are underway to also provide personal kits in coordination with UNICEF.
“We are bringing hope to many migrant families,” said Trundle. “Our country is their halfway point of travel, and for us, it feels wonderful to be part of this project.”
“We want these migrant families to find comfort and basic needs here in Honduras, like a small oasis, so they can continue their journey with a little bit more hope,” Trundle said.
Their journey will end in the United States as illegal immigrants. There is a gaping hole in U.S. immigration law around the subject of asylum seeking. Although 99% of these immigrants are economic migrants seeking a better life in the United States, their traffickers have coached them on the magic words to say in order to claim legal status as asylum seekers.
Once having claimed that status, they are entitled to a hearing before a federal judge, and those court hearings are backlogged for years. We lack the facilities to house millions of asylum seekers awaiting a hearing, so they are released into the interior of the United States upon promising to show up to court for their hearing. Ninety-five percent never appear at their asylum hearing.
To mitigate this problem, the Trump Administration established a “remain in Mexico” policy, meaning that asylum seekers had to wait outside the country for their cases to be heard. On his first day in office, Biden revoked the remain in Mexico policy. (A federal judge ordered that the policy remain in place while the issue was litigated—it is currently before the Supreme Court—but the administration seems to be ignoring the court order.)
The humanitarian problems associated with unrestricted immigration have been created by the “Biden Administration’s” policy of throwing open the borders to all comers. (I always put quotation marks around “Biden Administration,” since it is obvious that Joe Biden, who is far gone into senility and dementia, is not running his administration but is a figurehead controlled by a shadowy cabal of communist radicals.)
The message has gone out throughout the world that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is not trying to keep anyone out of the country but rather is facilitating massive, transformative illegal immigration. Naturally that has created a stampede of migrants through Central America and Mexico, and naturally there are severe humanitarian problems associated with such mass migration of nations.
The “Biden Administration” is on a course to usher between 20 and 40 million illegal immigrants into the country during its four years. The Leftists running the administration hope that by ushering these millions into the country, they can alter our demographic makeup, and put themselves in permanent and unshakable control of the government. Late night airplane flights transport the illegal migrants to states, like Florida, that the Leftist cabal hopes to flip politically. Whenever conservatives point this out, the Left accuses us of conspiracy-mongering and racism, but in their own media, the Left constantly boasts about this strategy and how effective they hope it will be.
ADRA receives around 45% of its budget from the United States government and thus is forbidden to proselytize. It has become just another NGO among hundreds, with post-Christian values and a program of uprooting patriarchy and traditional societies, promoting feminism, and of empowering all-pervasive totalitarian government. Elder Wilson took office in 2010 with the hope of reforming ADRA (and La Sierra), but failed miserably (at both). ADRA has its own value system and is, like our hospitals and medical school, only very loosely affiliated with the SDA Church and its message and value system.
This case and many others create a problem for conservative Adventists of how to support the church without also supporting the many divisions, departments, and institutions within the church that seem determined to promote the ongoing Marxist revolution. I am open to suggestions.