Four United Methodist ministries — including the Council of Bishops — are among 215 nonprofits facing demands from a U.S. congressional committee about their work with immigrants.
Two leading members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security last week sent letters to the nongovernmental organizations seeking to know by June 24 how they used U.S. taxpayer dollars in their work during former President Biden’s administration.
The letter states the committee “is conducting oversight of the potential use of federal resources to facilitate illegal immigration.”
The Council of Bishops, the bishops’ Immigration Task Force, United Methodist Board of Church and Society, and the Immigration Law and Justice Network all confirmed receiving the letter.
Neither the bishops and its task force nor the board of Church and Society receive any federal funding.
“The Council of Bishops does not receive any resources from the federal government,” Bishop Gregory V. Palmer, the Council of Bishops executive secretary, told United Methodist News. “We have responded to the inquiry stating the same.”
Church and Society, the denomination’s social witness agency, plans to respond the same way.
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