Julia Preston at the New York Times reveals the big-money organizers of progressives' campaign to pass immigration reform legislation which would legalize millions of illegal immigrants within the United States' borders.
The calls started shortly after President Obama’s news conference on
the day after the midterm elections. He had said he would go ahead with
action on immigration before year’s end, in spite of warnings from
Republicans that he could wreck relations with the new Congress they
will control. White House officials were calling immigrant advocates to
talk strategy and shore up their support.
The
officials wanted to reassure them, several activists said, that the
president, after delaying twice this year, was ready to take the kind of
broad measures they had demanded to shield immigrants here illegally
from deportation.
The
White House calls — and the president’s decision itself — reflected the
clout the immigrant movement has built up in recent years, as it grew
from a cluster of scattered Washington lobbying groups 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
last decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in
immigrant organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to
citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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