more than a
research outfit, Posted by Ann Corcoran on February 1, 2011
Update: Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies has
some insiteful comments about MPI’s 287g report at National Review On Line, here. Hat tip: Judy.
Yesterday two
people sent me the latest “study” from the benign-looking Migration Policy Institute. The press release on the report is entitled, “ICE’s 287(g) Immigration Enforcement Program
Is Not Targeted Primarily at Serious Offenders, New MPI Study Finds,”
and attempts to show that some jurisdictions involved in the 287g program (that
is the federal program which authorizes local law enforcement to apprehend
illegal aliens) are stopping illegals for petty crimes and traffic violations
and thus in their view abusing the law. It is a study that looks
balanced, but in fact advances a political agenda.
The Migration
Policy Institute (MPI) does just that—it advances an open-borders agenda
(as well as advocates for more legal immigration—more refugees and more
asylees).
I had never
really looked more deeply into the organization, but did just now because this
report irritated me so much—not what it says, but that over and over again we
are led to believe there is no agenda behind supposedly objective studies like
this one and gullible readers, especially reporters, take this stuff as the
unvarnished truth. In 30 minutes I found some of the following information:
The first thing I always check is a group’s Form 990 (virtually all of these pro-migration
advocacy groups are non-profits and are required to file a Form 990, some do so
in a more timely fashion than others). Here is the most recent Form 990 for
MPI–2008. There is no reason they shouldn’t have 2009 available.
The most
interesting thing to me is that their income went from just over $4 million in
the prior year and then jumped to a whopping $9.6 million in the next
year. Could it be that with Obama’s election they were gearing up
to push amnesty through Congress?
Unfortunately
other than the government portion of their funding which is $443,000, one is
not given access to their funders. I don’t care what end of the political
spectrum a group is on, but its major funders should be identified on their
public Form 990—a good project for an enterprising Tea Party oriented
Congressman!
Like so many of
these Washington groups ostensibly helping the world’s poor and downtrodden,
one of the biggest portions of their expenses is for all the 6-figure salaries
paid to employees. Examining the Form 990, one sees that one of those
receiving six-figures from MPI is Doris Meissner. I told you about her here recently as she was quoted supporting
the “free market idea” of human trafficking and smuggling Somalis across our
border:
Doris Meissner,
former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said
applicants can wait in camps for years with no assurance they’ll get into the
country of their choice.
“Sometimes they
decide that smuggling is the best shot,” said Meissner, now a senior fellow at
the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington. [You
see what I mean about reporters, they eat this up, “nonpartisan think tank” my
foot—-ed]
When I scrolled
down that Form 990 all I had to see was a $50,000 grant MPI gave to the Tennessee
Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition that year to know who they
were. That is a very far Left, highly political, open borders and
pro-migration and pro-Muslim immigration advocacy group we have written about
on many occasions.
And,
interestingly, I didn’t know that MPI was actually mentioned in an article
about the hotel in Nashville that canceled a meeting I attended in May
2009. After the Lowe’s Vanderbilt hotel canceled a conference days before
it opened, we all went to another “welcoming” hotel and proceeded to have a
good meeting. Here is ACT
for America’s account of
what happened. Here is Judy’s post.
So, just by giving TIRRC a $50,000 grant I
knew there was nothing nonpartisan and balanced about MPI. Just one more
of George Soros money laundering outfits?
When you can’t
figure out who exactly is funding an organization one can search by just
googling some of the likely candidates. For example, I typed in Migration
Policy Institute and the Tides Foundation or Tides Center (the hard Left’s
premier money laundering operation), MPI and George Soros, and then Discover the Networks is also a really
good first option.
Below are some
links to give you a better idea of who MPI is:
MPI and George Soros here ( here is the source for that story).
Soros operation is called the “shadow party.”
Working with
the big money government contractor,
International Rescue Committee, here for a PR campaign for more tax dollars
going to Iraqi refugees (actually it won’t go directly to the refugees it will
pass through the contractors so the head of the IRC can make his $400,000 plus
salary).
I told you
about this meeting hosted by MPI (here) where “experts” admitted that black
men are hurt the most when immigrant numbers are high, but that doesn’t matter
to the elite and highly educated at MPI.
Wikipedia
reports that MPI gets funding from international interests through the United
Nations, here. Heck, you can see all their
international funders at their website, here.
And, to really
see what grassroots immigration control groups are up against, see UNBOUND
PHILANTHROPY, here.
O.K. so this is
taking me more than a half hour—UNBOUND has a boatload of information on its
Form 990! Will have to write a separate post! [Update: Here is my post on Unbound Philanthropy.]
Bottomline, MPI is not an unbiased, nonpartisan, independent think
tank. It is an open borders advocate and a pro-migration organization. So please read any “study” or report
that they release as propaganda to advance their agenda.
Comments
A large cast of mostly US government officials, “think
tanks”, and thousands of NGOs are responsible for the Open Borders sabotage we
see around the world. Private Marxist foundations are in continual contact with
US government officials and Marxist activist groups. Most of the funding is
from US taxpayers, laundered through Congress in the form of grants. Foundation heads like George Soros and Bill
Reeves and others are in the cabal. They
want to take down the United States and Europe.
They are all aligned with the UN. and Muslim organizations.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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