‘Hawaii’s George Soros': The Hidden Donor Funding The
Illegal Immigration, Black-Lives-Matter Activists, by Lee Stranahan, 12/9/15. Consider the
following seemingly unrelated news stories:
In July, 2015, chaos erupts at the progress NetRoots Nation conference in
Phoenix, Arizona. Moderator Jose Antonio Vargas tries to keep order during a
forum for 2016 primary candidate Martin O’Malley when Black Lives Matter
activist Tia Oso storms the stage. The planned talk with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Scorecard 16%
is also scuttled by Black Lives Matter protestors.
This week in the United Kingdom, a group called “Hope Not Hate” releases a report that attacks the Counter-Jihad movement as “anti-Muslim
hate.” The report released by the London-based group mentions Breitbart News
four times and goes after writers like Ben Shapiro and Pam Geller and Texas
Congressman Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Score 96%.
For years in England, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has been
berated by the group as they tried to disrupt his events, as shown in this 2013
video.
Artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez promotes and uses a Butterfly motif as a symbol of
“migration”, in an attempt to blur the line between legal and illegal
immigration. The symbol becomes a cultural symbol of the movement and appears
frequently at pro-illegal immigration protests, on posters at events, T-Shirts
and as graffiti.
A group called the Puente Human Rights Movement wages a years-long campaign
against Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over his enforcement of
immigration law, including protests and a lawsuit. When GOP Presidential hopeful Donald Trump does an event in Phoenix in
July 2015, Puente organizes a protest against him.
These seemingly unconnected stories — plus numerous other lawsuits, policy
proposals and hundreds of more protests and disruptions promoting extremist
positions on immigration — have one thing in common : they were all funded by a
pair of Hawaiian-based multimillionaire mega-donors.
Meet William Huntington Reeve and Debbie Berger
Few people know the name Bill Reeves or Debbie Berger. Their names didn’t
ring a bell to political insiders in Hawaii that Breitbart News spoke to, even
though some of them had actually been targeted by groups Reeves funded.
However, Reeves could be described as the George Soros of Hawaii because of
the massive funding he’s given to many radical groups pushing a pro-illegal
immigration agenda.
Reeves and his wife Debbie Berger are the people behind Unbound
Philanthropy, a group that has given tens of millions of dollars to pro-open
borders activist groups both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Reeves and Berger are also both major Democrat donors, and they are their group
also has connections to the exclusive Punahou School, the elite private school
that President Barack Obama attended.
To help understand just a little of the impact of the vast web of funding
that Reeves and Berger’s Unbound Philanthropy is responsible for, let’s revisit
the four stories we mentioned earlier.
Tia Oso is the woman who helped shutdown events by Hillary Clinton’s rivals —
Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley — at Netroots Nation. Oso also works as
National Organizer for a group called Black Alliance for
Just Immigration or BAJI. The Executive Director of BAJI is Opal Tometi,
one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement. William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound
Philanthropy has given $100,000 to BAJI.
Jose Antonio Vargas is the gay illegal-alien journalist and activist who was
the moderator at the disrupted Sanders and
O’Malley, the person supposedly trying to restore order once the Black
Lives Matter activists took over. Vargas also produced a show for MTV called White People and is the founder of a
non-profit organization called Define American that “seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration and citizenship
in America.” William Reeves
and Debbie Berger’s Unbound Philanthropy has given $275,000 to Jose Antonio
Vargas’ Define American group. Let’s be crystal clear on that
point—both the group that shut down Netroots Nation AND the moderator trying
“to keep the peace” are funded by Reeves and Berger. Nobody in the audience
knew the referee and the disruptors got paychecks from the same source.
Not present at theNetroots shutdown event was another Black Lives Matter
co-founder, Alicia Garza, who works as Director of Special Projects and
a spokesperson for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Inc. William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound
Philanthropy has given $155,000 to National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Puente Human Rights Movement is the group who’s spent years protesting Sheriff Joe
Arpario and organized Arizona protests against Trump. BLM-cofounder Opal Tometi
from BAJI is also board member of Puente. William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound
Philanthropy has given $62,500 to Puente.
As this video shows, joining Puente in the Arizona anti-Trump protests were
representatives from MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Education Fund in addition to groups La Raza and LULAC.
William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound
Philanthropy has given $180,000 to MALDEF.
Just before the
Arizona anti-Trump protests, Donald Trump was protested in Los Angeles in an
event organized by CHIRLA
or Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound Philanthropy has given
$185,000 to CHIRLA.
Favianna Rodriguez,
the artist and activist who promotes the Butterfly motif heads two groups; the
political group Presente and Culture Strike, an artistic organization. William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s Unbound Philanthropy has given
$406,000.00 to Presente and $356,200.00 to CultureStrike.
In the UK, Hope Not
Hate has relentlessly attacked the people like Farage and Geller who are
exposing the dangers of radical Islam. The group was behind the petition drive
that persuaded the Home Office to ban Geller and Robert Spencer from traveling
to England. The group, which also does voter registration drives, has had major
funding from American William Reeves. William Reeves
has given £320,000.00 (around $485,000 U.S. dollars) to Hope Not Hate.
Understanding
The Vast, Well-Funded Open Borders Web
Even politically
aware Americans have no idea about the size, depth and funding of the movement
to promote illegal immigration.
Promoting open
borders, illegal immigration is an industry in America, with groups that work
in politics, the legal realm, and culture. These groups have a small and
growing army of activists ready to take to the streets, hold direct-actions and
lobby for legislation.
Conservatives may
have heard about the political activism of groups La Raza—which means The Race in Spanish—and that puts
them ahead of most Americans who couldn’t name a single pro-illegal immigrant
activist group.
However, even most
of the those politically minded people aren’t aware of just how deep and connected
the web of groups supporting the comprehensive immigration reform agenda really
is.
It’s far, far
beyond La Raza. (For the record, Unbound does not appear to have provided
funding to La Raza.)
Who are these
groups, working around-the-clock to open America’s border?
There’s MALDEF, the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and LULAC, the League of
United Latin American Citizens. There’s MTV star and journalist Jose Antonio
Vargas’s group Define
American. There’s the
American Immigration Council, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network,
and the Immigrant Legal
Resource Center.
There are group
that promote the ‘dreamers’—children brought here illegally by their
parents—such as United We
Dream Network and the Arizona
Dream Act Coalition. There are groups that support illegal
workers, such as National
Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
There are regional
groups with national impact, like Arizona’s
La Puente Human Rights Movement, the Florida Immigration Coalition,
the New Orleans
Workers Center for Racial Justice and the California Immigrant Youth Justice
Alliance.
There’s NALEO, the National
Association of Latino Elected Officials, the Migration Policy Institute, and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.
The ACLU in Los Angeles has made immigration issues their primary focus.
There’s also the crucially important
National Immigration Law Center.
There’s Caring Across Generations,
and the Black Alliance for
Just Immigration, and the National Partnership for New Americans.
There’s PICO National
Network and the Mi
Famila Vota Education Fund. There’s Catholic Legal Immigration
Network, and Kids in Need of Defense, and there’s Culture Strike and Race Forward and Presente.org and CASA de Maryland and Woman’s Refugee Commission.
Every single group
mentioned here has been given money by William Reeves and Debbie Berger’s
Unbound Philanthropy. That’s not even all of groups pushing for immigration
reform…and that’s just in the United States.
Many of these
groups and the people behind them have an explicitly far-left, often
revolutionary socialist or communist agenda that goes beyond immigration
reform. These groups are funded by organizations with direct ties to
establishment Democrats, like Unbound Philanthropy and, of course, George Soros
and his Tides Foundation and their other offshoots. They work together and the
staff and executives often bounce between organizations.
Who
Are William Reeves and Debbie Berger?
In Part Two of this
series, we’ll look into the people behind Unbound Philanthropy and at William
Reeves and Debbie Berger.
However, just a
glimpse at their short biographies shows that the people funding the far-left
pro-illegal immigration groups in both the United States and the U.K. are not
ragged revolutionaries living in third world squalor, but are the wealthy elite
of the elite; the top 1% of the One Percenters. These bios are
posed from a website called Virtual Globetrotting that claims to show a photo of their Hawaain home.
William H. Reeves
is a director and co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management Based in London,
BlueCrest manages investments for a predominantly institutional investor base
across 15 diverse funds. Until April 2000, when he left to establish BlueCrest,
Mr. Reeves was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in London and head of macro
strategy and trading within the proprietary trading group. Prior to that, Mr.
Reeves was a fund manager at Salomon Brothers Asset Management Limited and at
Fisher Francis Trees and Watts, with responsibility for managing leveraged
capital. He has also worked for JP Morgan New York where, from 1991 to 1993, he
was a Vice President in charge of a team managing the company’s leveraged
multi-currency proprietary investment portfolio. Mr. Reeves is a US Trustee of
the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. He holds an MA in Philosophy from New
York University and a BA in English from Yale University. Mr. Reeves was born
in Honolulu and raised in Richmond, Virginia.
His wife, Debbie
Berger, worked in also worked in finance before going into the non-profit
world. They two founded Unbound Philanthropy. Based in New York, the foundation
promotes the ideal of self-determination by working to equalize the
distribution of opportunities in refugee and immigrant populations worldwide.
In 2007 she returned to Hawaii and founded The Learning Coalition or TLC. TLC’s
goal is to assist Hawaii’s public schools by building and strengthening a grass
roots movement around their transformation into world class institutions of
21st century learning.
Yet, despite their
wealth and political activism, Reeves and Berge have managed to fly under the
media radar…until now.
In Part Two, we’ll
take a deep dive on Reeves, Berge and their political funding empire.
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