George Soros-Financed Groups Scheme to Stop Trump’s Temporary Refugee
Halt Order, by Aaron
Klein, 1/28/17
TEL AVIV — Immigration lawyers from groups financed by billionaire George Soros, a champion of open border policies, were signatories to a lawsuit filed Saturday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order halting visas for 90 days for “immigrants and non-immigrants” from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.
The
executive order further suspended the entry of all refugees for 120 days,
indefinitely blocks Syrian refugees from entering and lowers the ceiling to
50,000 for refugees allowed to enter the U.S. during Fiscal Year 2017 .
The New
York Times first reported on the lawsuit:
At least
one case quickly prompted a legal challenge as lawyers representing two Iraqi
refugees held at Kennedy International Airport in New York filed a motion early
Saturday seeking to have their clients released. They also filed a motion for
class certification, in an effort to represent all refugees and other
immigrants who they said were being unlawfully detained at ports of entry.
The suit was filed by lawyers from the International Refugee Assistance
Project, the National Immigration Law Center, the Jerome N. Frank Legal
Services Organization at Yale Law School, the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), and the International Refugee Assistance Project (formerly Iraqi
Refugee Assistance Project) at the Urban Justice Center.
The ACLU
is massively funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundations, including with a $50
million grant in 2014. The National
Immigration Law Center has received numerous Open Society grants earmarked for general support.
The Urban
Justice Center is also the recipient of an Open Society grant. Taryn Higashi, executive director of the Center’s International Refugee Assistance Project, which
is listed on the Trump lawsuit, currently serves on the Advisory Board of
the International Migration Initiative of Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
Over the
last decade, Soros has reportedly provided some $76 million for immigrant issues.
In 2014,
the New York Times credited “immigrant rights groups” financed by Soros and a handful of
other donors for influencing President Obama’s immigration policy.
The
newspaper reported:
When
President Obama announces major changes to the nation’s immigration enforcement
system as early as next week, his decision will partly be a result of a years-long
campaign of pressure by immigrant rights groups, which have grown from a
cluster of lobbying organizations into a national force.
A vital
part of that expansion has involved money: major donations from some of the
nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of the financier
George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.
Over the
past decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in immigrant
organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to citizenship for
immigrants here illegally.
In August,
Breitbart Jerusalem first reported hacked documents from Soros’s Open Society Institute boasted
that the billionaire and his foundation helped to successfully press the Obama
administration into increasing to 100,000 the total number of refugees taken in
by the U.S. annually. The
documents revealed that the billionaire personally sent President Obama a
letter on the issue of accepting refugees.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s
Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York
Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook. With research by Brenda
J. Elliott.
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/01/28/george-soros-financed-groups-scheme-stop-trumps-temporary-refugee-halt-order/
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