“The Big Money Behind the Push for an Immigration Overhaul”
President Obama appears poised to soon exercise his power to move forward on immigration reform. The headline of this New York Times story arguably plays into the claim that immigration reform is sought by big money interests, a claim often made by opponents of reform. Julia Preston reports that “[a] vital part of that expansion [of immigrant rights groups] 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.”
KJ