Catholic Charities agencies announce dismissals in San Diego and Fort Wayne, Indiana

Two other Catholic Charisies agencies in the United States have announced layoffs due to the freezing of federal funds for 90 days of the Trump administration.

Shortly after assuming the position, President Donald Trump issued a directive to pause foreign aid during a 9 -day review, as well as a pause in internal financing designed to avoid incentives funded by the federal government for the immigration of undocumented persons.

The directive has caused a freezing of federal financing for Catholic Charisies programs throughout the United States, predominantly affecting their service programs for migrants and refugees.

This week, Catholic Charities in San Diego and Fort Wayne, Indiana, fired employees in the midst of federal fund cuts to migrant resettlement programs, according to journalistic reports.

San Diego

Catholic Charities of San Diego has stopped receiving asylum applicants at their Mission Valley refuge due to fund cutters, according to a report NBC local. The beneficial organization is saying goodbye to more than 70 employees of its migrants programs, which include a refugee services program and a migrant shelter.

The executive director of the beneficial organization, Pajanor wine, said that dismissed employees are being offered other opportunities in the organization, in agency programs that have vacancies. The company will fire 42 people in San Diego already 31 in Imperial County at the end of April.

Based at less than 40 kilometers from the border between the United States and Mexico, Catholic Charities of San Diego began operating shelters for migrants in April 2021 in the midst of an increase in undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States.

For four years, Catholic Charities of San Diego helped 405,000 migrants from 146 countries. Of its budget of 46 million, the group received approximately 9 million dollars from the federal government during the peak of the migratory wave, Pajanor declared NBC.

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South will bless 17 employees after the fund cuts, according to a local report. The dismissals occur after the cancellation of the United States Refugee Admission Program (USRAP) by the Federal Government.

Last year, the Indian -based agency reset 380 refugees in the northeast of the State. The agency received 3 million dollars for refugee service in 2024. The agency’s reception and placement contract was canceled this year, one of the almost 10,000 contracts that were canceled.

The agency executive director Dan Florin, told a local newsletter that helps newcomers will be in pause “in the predictable future.”

In recent weeks, Catholic Charisies agencies have fired personnel and closed programs after the freezing of federal funds for 90 days.

Las Local Catholic Charities agencies In Dallas, Syracuse, New York and Santa Rosa, California, they reduced the operations of their programs and fired employees due to the freezing of funds.

The Catholic Charities in Jacksonville, Florida; The Texas Panhandle; And the southwest of Kansas have also been seen Affected by the freezing of funds.

Shortly after the Trump administration pausara the financing, Catholic Charities USA urged the administration to Reconsider freezingciting the “crucial attention” that financing helps to provide.

Last month, US bishops sued the Trump administration, arguing that the suspension of refugee programs was illegal.

Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.