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Activists suing DeSantis over Martha's Vineyard flights received over $1.3M from George Soros network

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Sep 22, 2022, 1:17:10 PM9/22/22
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Alianza Americas, other migrants are part of a class-action lawsuit
against DeSantis filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights on Tuesday

The activist group at the center of a class-action lawsuit against Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials for migrant flights to
Martha’s Vineyard has received nearly $1.4 million from George Soros’ Open
Society network.

Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, filed the
lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas, according to a press release
Tuesday that described the latter group as "a network of migrant-led
organizations supporting immigrants across the United States."

Alianza Americas has received a total of $1,383,947 from George Soros'
Open Society Foundations between 2016 and 2020, OSF's records show.

The grants came from three of his nonprofits: Open Society Institute, Open
Society Policy Center and Foundation to Promote Open Society.

The grants were to support policy advocacy on immigration, a Global
Compact for Migration initiative and to strengthen the group's
international work in Central America and Mexico.

The law firm filing the suit, Lawyers for Civil Rights, received $50,000
from the Borealis Philanthropy in 2019, tax forms show. Borealis is a
left-wing donor-advised fund that acts as an intermediary steering
Democratic money to organizations.

Borealis has partnered with Black Lives Matter and the left-wing
Marguerite Casey Foundation, which advocates for the abolishment of
policing and prisons.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has also awarded $1.26
million to Alianza Americas between 2008 and 2020, according to grants
posted on its website.

The MacArthur Foundation funds liberal endeavors and said in September
2020 that it was awarding $25 million in grants to address "anti-Black
racism, support Native Americans impacted by COVID-19, strengthen voter
education and mobilization and combat voter suppression."

The class-action suit filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights in the District of
Massachusetts alleges that DeSantis and others "designed and executed a
premeditated, fraudulent and illegal scheme centered on exploiting this
vulnerability for the sole purpose of advancing their own personal,
financial and political interests."

The class-action lawsuit alleges that the migrants were told they were
going to Boston or Washington, "which was completely false," and were
induced with perks such as $10 McDonald's gift certificates. It also
alleges that migrants were induced to cross state lines under false
pretenses, a line that some Democratic officials are using to urge a
federal investigation.

"No human being should be used as a political pawn," said Ivan Espinoza-
Madrigal, executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, which is seeking
class-action status representing Alianza Americas and other migrants.

In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, DeSantis’ spokeswoman Taryn
Fenske slammed the lawsuit as "political theater" perpetrated by
"opportunistic activists" at the expense of illegal immigrants.

"If these activists spent even a fraction of this time and effort at the
border, perhaps some accountability would be brought to the Biden
administration’s reckless border policies that entice illegal immigrants
to make dangerous and often lethal journeys through Central America and
put their lives in the hands of cartels and ‘coyotes,’" Fenske said.

Fenske provided Fox News with a copy of a consent form — available in
English and Spanish — that she said was given to migrants before they
boarded.

The form states, "I agree to hold the benefactor or its designed
representatives harmless of all liability arising out of or in any way
relating to any injuries and damages that may occur during the agreed
transport to locations outside of Texas until the final destination in
Massachusetts."

Fenske said the transportation of these migrants "was done on a voluntary
basis."

"The immigrants were homeless, hungry and abandoned, and these activists
didn’t care about them then. Florida’s program gave them a fresh start in
a sanctuary state, and these individuals opted to take advantage of
chartered flights to Massachusetts," she said. "It was disappointing that
Martha’s Vineyard called in the Massachusetts National Guard to bus them
away from the island within 48 hours."

Fox News’ Bradford Betz, Adam Sabes and The Associated Press contributed
to this report.



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