Saturday, October 19, 2013

Soros-Funded Group Plans 'Fly-In' to Push House Republicans on Amnesty



Soros-Funded Group Plans 'Fly-In' to Push House Republicans on Amnesty
The George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF) is organizing a “fly-in” of what it calls conservatives from across the country aimed at lobbying House Republicans for an amnesty bill.

According to USA Today’s immigration beat writer Alan Gomez, NIF is planning to organize the fly in with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy.

“The fly-in is being organized not by conservative groups, but organizations that have focused on legalizing millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally and changing the legal immigration system to bring in more foreign workers,” Gomez wrote on Monday. He noted that the 300 activists for an immigration grand bargain were looking to make what he described as a “conservative pitch” for amnesty.

Gomez noted NIF’s Executive Director, Ali Noorani, who “has advocated for changes in immigration law to help legal and undocumented immigrants for three decades," claimed "the broad collection coming to Washington represents 'the conservative base of the Republican Party.'"

The event will take place on Oct. 28, coinciding with President Barack Obama’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s renewed push against House Speaker John Boehner for amnesty. Now that Obama, Reid, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are publicly pushing for amnesty after many mainstream media outlets declared it dead earlier this year, Soros’ groups are trying to make it appear as though conservatives support immigration legislation like the Senate-passed “Gang of Eight” bill. Ultimately, the left’s goal is to get the House to pass a series of piecemeal immigration bills and then combine them with the Senate bill in a conference committee.

Soros is heavily involved in funding the lobbying for amnesty. After Breitbart News exposed NIF for being Soros-funded while running a campaign to make it appear as though evangelicals support granting amnesty to illegal immigrants, Noorani admitted his group accepts funding from Soros. Noorani denies that the funding was being used for the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a project that his group runs the operations of, but admits that millions of NIF’s dollars come from Soros and that about 10 percent of its budget this year comes from the leftwing billionaire.

Soros is also intimately connected to Facebook’s Zuckerberg’s FWD.us push for amnesty. Zuckerberg hired Soros’ former chief financial strategist Stanley Druckenmiller. Druckenmiller served as Soros’ chief strategist for more than a decade.

Mitt Romney's top 2012 campaign donor, Wall Street hedge fund manager Paul Singer, also funds NIF, as Breitbart News has reported. 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Thomas J. Donohue is the president & CEO for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee emeritus at the Hudson Institute (think tank).

Note: Craig L. Fuller is a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee emeritus at the Hudson Institute (think tank).
Edward Wanandi is a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee emeritus at the Hudson Institute (think tank).
Klaus Kleinfeld is a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Robert A. Helman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is a partner at Mayer Brown, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Mayer Brown is a lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin LLP was a lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is a lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
James W. Cicconi was a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, is a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
John S. Chen was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Larry D. Thompson was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Edward B. Rust Jr. is a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a director at the Committee for Economic Development.
James E. Rogers was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Hudson Institute (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Committee for Economic Development, the Aspen Institute (think tank), and Amnesty International.
George Soros is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for Amnesty International, and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Daniel W. Christman is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was the SVP for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Brian D. Dailey is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and was a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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