George Soros-Linked Nonprofit Lands $172 Million Contract From Biden to Help Illegal Migrants Avoid Deportation

A left-wing nonprofit linked to George Soros has won a near $172 million taxpayer-funded government contract from the Biden Administration to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation.

A Fox News report on Thursday revealed that the Vera Institute of Justice, with financial ties to Soros, has won a federal contract for $171.7 million that will provide attorneys to Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to avoid deportation from the United States.

BREAKING REPORT: Left-wing nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice lands a $171.7 million taxpayer-funded government contract from the Biden Administration to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation.#BREAKING #Biden #Immigration

— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) July 17, 2022

A left-wing group linked to billionaire George Soros has won a nearly $172 million federal contract from Biden’s administration to help young border crossers avoid deportation, a report revealed this week. https://t.co/elEToRmxKb

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 17, 2022

Fox News reported:

The Vera Institute of Justice, a New York-based group that supports defunding police and views immigration enforcement agencies as a “threat” to civil liberties, was awarded a Health and Human Services-funded contract in March to provide legal assistance to unaccompanied minors, according to a federal database.

The arrangement lasts until March 2023 but can reach as high as $983 million if renewed until March 2027, the agreement shows. This appears to be the largest federal contract Vera has secured for immigration-related services for any single year dating back to the mid-2000s.

The lofty nine-figure contract came amid an escalating border crisis that saw more than 239,000 migrant encounters in May alone — a historic high. There were 14,699 encounters of unaccompanied minors in May, an increase from the 12,180 encountered in April and slightly higher than the 14,052 encountered in May 2021.

According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), there was an average of 692 minors in the agency’s custody during May. So far, there have been more than 100,000 unaccompanied minor encounters in fiscal year 2022, which started in October, compared to 147,925 for fiscal year 2021 and 33,239 in fiscal year 2020.

Breitbart added:

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As Breitbart News reported in 2018, the Vera Institute of Justice was previously awarded $310 million by the Obama administration to help UACs avoid deportation.

The group also takes taxpayer money via sanctuary jurisdictions.

In 2019, for instance, the Vera Institute of Justice worked with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to create a program dedicated to helping illegal aliens avoid deportation specifically by providing them with free legal services.

Influence Watch noted:

Vera Institute of Justice (VIJ) was founded in the 1960s as a project of Louis Schweitzer, an eccentric New York philanthropist and Herbert Sturz, a trustee of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. ^[1] [2] Originally known as the Manhattan Bail Project, the organization was founded to help poor New Yorkers satisfy bail conditions they could not afford.

Now known as the Vera Institute of Justice, it has transformed into a broader left-of-center advocacy organization that agitates against what it characterizes as mass incarceration, racial disparities, and marginalization. Much of its work now focuses on immigration issues.