Catholic NGOs Partnering With Radical Leftist ‘Open Borders’ Group, by Complicit Clergy

By Complicit Clergy by Staff, February 9, 2025

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is one of the major non-profits helping illegal aliens avoid deportation from the United States. Check-out the ILRC YouTube page to see examples of the types of advice being offered to illegal aliens.

ILRC is responsible for producing the infamous “Red Card“, advising illegal aliens of their “rights” and encouraging not to cooperate with immigration enforcement officers. The Red Cards are now being distributed by a number of Catholic organizations throughout the nation (see here and here).

A review of ILRC’s 2023 federal tax return reveals that Catholic organizations provided nearly 20% of all grants for this radical leftist organization.

Out of a total of 77 organizations providing grants to ILRC in 2023, the top grantor was none other that the U.S. Bishops’ very own Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.(CLINIC), providing over $1.1 million.

We are providing you with a couple of background pieces on ILRC so you can get a sense for the type of organization being supported by Catholic NGOs.

From Discover the Networks:

In 1979 the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) began as a group of volunteer attorneys and law students active in leftist causes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Responding to the wave of refugees fleeing the war and repression caused by the Communist movements in Central America during the 1980s, ILRC joined the sanctuary movement and sought to establish legal precedents in political asylum law that would open the door to these refugees. The sanctuary movement was closely tied to leftist support for the communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

After the Sandinistas’ electoral defeat in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union the following year, the sanctuary movement faded away. ILRC, however, continues to work for the legalization of those refugees who came to the U.S. during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. ILRC’s efforts are founded on the provisions of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, which provides various forms of immigration benefits and exemption from deportation to certain Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Cubans, nationals of former Soviet bloc countries and their dependents.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center is amongst the top organizations helping illegal aliens avoid deportation.

As of January 2004, ILRC claimed to have helped gain amnesty for some three million illegal immigrants in the U.S. ILRC staff attorneys provide on-site and telephone consultation, training workshops and seminars, and educational curricula on immigration issues to pro-bono attorneys and nonprofit agencies serving immigrants from all Third World backgrounds throughout the United States.

From the Daily Wire:

The National Partnership for New Americans isn’t the only leftist organization working to leverage mass immigration to impact American elections, however. There’s also the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, an organization that’s received nearly $7 million from Soros between 2016 to 2022, and had $25 million in total revenue in 2022.

Two of the most recent listed grants from the Open Society Foundations, which total nearly $4.3 million, are intended “to encourage naturalization among eligible immigrants, assist them with the process, and mobilize their civic participation.” The center is one of the organizations behind Citizenshipworks, an effort also funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to help non-citizens residing in the United States become citizens.

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center isn’t exclusively concerned with naturalizing and mobilizing non-citizens. The organization also works to prevent the deportation of illegal aliens. It received $500,000 in 2021 from the Open Society Foundations to fund its efforts to “dismantle the infrastructure of criminalization, detention, and deportation of immigrants.”

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