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Biden gives $172 million to a group with ties to George Soros to help border crossers avoid being deported

A left-wing group with ties to billionaire George Soros has won a nearly $172 million federal contract from President Joe Biden's administration to help young border crossers avoid deportation, according to a report this week.

Adam Shaw and Joe Schoffstall of Fox News said on Thursday that the Vera Institute of Justice, which has financial ties to Soros, has won a $171.7 million federal contract to help Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) avoid being deported from the United States. The UACs will be able to hire lawyers through this contract.

Fox News said that the federal contract could end up giving the Vera Institute of Justice $1 billion in taxpayer money:

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. [Emphasis added]

The Vera Insitute, meanwhile, is propelled by taxpayer-backed government grants and contracts like the one it secured in March. Between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, $152 million of the group’s $191 million in revenue came from government sources, its most recent financial audit shows. [Emphasis added]

The institute seeks to end “mass incarceration” by cutting down on the number of jails, prisons and detention centers in the United States. The group has also signaled support for defunding police. [Emphasis added]

Fox News Digital found that a left-leaning nonprofit working to end mass incarceration won a government contract worth $171.7 million (paid for by taxpayers) that could go up to $1 billion to help unaccompanied minors avoid being deported.

A federal database shows that the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York-based group that wants to stop funding police and sees immigration enforcement agencies as a "threat" to civil liberties, was given a contract in March to help unaccompanied minors with their legal problems. The contract was paid for by the Health and Human Services Department.

The deal lasts until March 2023, but if it is extended until March 2027, it could be worth as much as $983 million. Since the middle of the 2000s, this seems to be the largest contract Vera has gotten from the federal government for immigration services in a single year.

The high nine-figure contract came at a time when the border crisis was getting worse. In May alone, more than 239,000 migrants were stopped, which was a record number. In May, 14,699 unaccompanied minors were found, which is more than the 12,180 found in April and a little more than the 14,052 found in May 2021.

President Biden has overseen historic highs of migrant encounters at the southern border.
President Biden has overseen historic highs of migrant encounters at the southern border. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that there were an average of 692 minors in their care during the month of May. Since October, when fiscal year 2022 began, there have been more than 100,000 unaccompanied minor encounters, compared to 147,925 in fiscal year 2021 and 33,239 in fiscal year 2020.

The Title 42 public health order, which has been used to send back most people who cross the southern border because of the COVID-19 pandemic, is not being used to send back unaccompanied minors.

Instead, they are usually given to Health and Human Services, which moves them to their parents or sponsors who are already in the country.

The Biden administration has been working hard to deal with the huge number of unaccompanied children, adults, and families crossing the border. Most recently, the Biden administration signed a five-year contract to start renting an abandoned school in Greensboro, North Carolina, to house unaccompanied minors away from the southern border.

The Biden administration recently signed a five-year contract to house unaccompanied minors at a former North Carolina school. 
The Biden administration recently signed a five-year contract to house unaccompanied minors at a former North Carolina school. 

The Biden administration recently signed a five-year contract to house unaccompanied minors at a former North Carolina school.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo)

Fox News found out last month that up to a thousand migrant children could be held at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro until they can be placed with family members already living in the U.S. or with other sponsors.

Republicans blame the Biden administration for the huge increase in migration to the southern border. They point to more liberal policies, such as limiting interior enforcement and calling for amnesty for illegal immigrants, as well as the rolling back of policies from the Trump administration, such as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and building the border wall.

In Central America, poverty, violence, corruption, and climate change are some of the "root causes" of the crisis that the Biden administration has been focusing on to solve it.

There have been more than 100,000 unaccompanied minor encounters in fiscal year 2022, which began in October. 
There have been more than 100,000 unaccompanied minor encounters in fiscal year 2022, which began in October.  (Eddie Seal/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Vera Institute, on the other hand, is kept going by government grants and contracts like the one it got in March, which are paid for by taxpayers. The group made $191 million between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Their most recent financial audit shows that $152 million of that came from the government.

The institute wants to stop "mass incarceration" in the United States by reducing the number of jails, prisons, and detention centers. The group has also said that it wants to stop giving money to the police.

Vera also does "on-the-ground work" with progressive prosecutor offices to help them "implement policies and build evidence that limiting the number of people who enter the criminal justice system and focusing on racial equity makes the public safer," according to its website.

The institute also started the "Motion for Justice" campaign, in which they work with prosecutor offices and community-based groups to "improve safety by creating diversion programs" that focus on racial equity.

In 2018, Breitbart News said that the Obama administration gave $310 million to the Vera Institute of Justice to help UACs stay in the country and avoid being deported.

The group also gets money from the government through "sanctuary jurisdictions."

In 2019, for example, the Vera Institute of Justice and the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, worked together to create a program to help illegal immigrants avoid being deported by giving them free legal services.

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