Nonprofit Advocacy Group Received $158 Million to Help Immigrants Skirt Deportation
By Adam Andrzejewski
February 01, 2022
The U.S. government entered into a $158 million contract with the Vera Institute of Justice to “provide immigration related legal services to unaccompanied minors.” While the federal government often engages in the contracting and funding of nonprofits, they typically try to avoid dealing with overtly political institutions. Not this time.
The Vera Institute for Justice is an overtly political, leftwing nonprofit organization. According to Jason Hopkins, an investigative associate with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, they are “a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country.”
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There is nothing inherently wrong with political nonprofits. Both the right and the left have scores of them, though most receive their funding from private donors, not government contracts.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/02/01/nonprofit_advocacy_group_received_158_million_to_help_immigrants_skirt_deportation_813181.html
