(Headline USA) Tens of millions of American taxpayer dollars have been spent subsidizing a left-wing group connected to George Soros that helps illegal immigrants fight deportation, according to a new investigation.
The Immigration Reform Law Institute revealed this week that government officials in cities and counties across the country have signed contracts with the Vera Institute of Justice, a legal firm that provides lawyers to represent illegals in deportation proceedings, according to Breitbart. The VIJ has received more than $66 million in taxpayer dollars through these contracts, the report found.
IRLI reported: “The number of jurisdictions establishing deportation defense funds continues to grow. And the cost to U.S. taxpayers is staggering … What’s worse, is the longer those immigration violators remain in America, the more they tend to cost us – placing a fiscal burden on public schools, the criminal justice system, and our transportation infrastructure.”
VIJ is boosted by leftist billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, as well as by major corporate backers such as the Tides Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Almost all of VIJ’s funding, however, comes from government grants. In fact, between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, nearly $137 million of the group’s $174 million in revenue came from government grants, according to IRLI.
Last year, for example, VIJ was awarded a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract by the Department of Health and Human Services to “provide immigration related legal services to unaccompanied minors.”
VIJ’s “end game,” according to IRLI, is to delay illegals’ deportation cases for as long as possible — not just so they can rack up additional legal fees, but because “the longer a foreign national tends to remain in the United States, the lower the likelihood that he/she will ultimately be removed from the United States.”
“The fact is that our system rewards people for breaking our immigration laws – and the longer they get away with breaking the law, the greater the reward,” IRLI added.
