Your Tax Dollars pay for Legal Representation of Immigrants

Federal Grants to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Inc.

A 501c6 organization

http://www.immigrationadvocates.org/probono/partner/item.2440-American_Immigration_Lawyers_Association

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of more than 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law. AILA works with pro bono attorneys to represent low income and indigent immigrants before the agency and the federal courts nationwide. In addition to the many pro bono initiatives at AILA chapters across the country, AILA supports the Military Assistance Project (MAP), AILA Citizenship Day, and the AILA Member Pro Bono Pledge. 

(But as you can see by the federal grants below, it is OUR tax dollars that pay for these programs!)

NOTE:  The AILA also works closely with Tides funded organizations like the American Immigration Council EIN 52-1549711.  More about them later

American Bar Association Commission on Immigration

The American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Immigration directs the ABA's efforts to ensure fair treatment and full due process rights for immigrants and refugees within the United States. Pro bono programs operated by the Commission include the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), the Immigration Justice Project (IJP) of San Diego, the Detention Standards Implementation Initiative (DSII), and The Fight Notario Fraud (FNF) Project. To learn more, visit the ABA Commission on Immigration.

Federal Grants to AILA

Contracting Agency	Date Signed	($)	Contracting Office
OFFICES, BOARDS AND DIVISIONS	5-Jun-06	$58,573.00	DEPT OF JUSTICE
OFFICES, BOARDS AND DIVISIONS	1-Jun-15	$199,018.00	LIBRARY STAFF
OFFICES, BOARDS AND DIVISIONS	3-Jun-10	$75,212.23	DEPT OF JUSTICE
U.S. CUSTOMS	6-Aug-12	$3,220.00	TRADE FACILITATION&MISSION SUPPORT CONTRACTING DIVISION
U.S. CUSTOMS	7-Jul-14	$3,521.20	TRADE FACILITATION&MISSION SUPPORT CONTRACTING DIVISION
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	19-Mar-08	$121,937.04	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	30-Oct-12	$0.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	16-Sep-08	$6,956.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	26-Aug-09	$1,868.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	8-Dec-09	$7,060.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	17-Dec-10	$7,060.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	20-Dec-11	$7,060.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	6-May-13	($312.00)	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	28-Jun-10	$99,886.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	24-Jan-12	$0.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	31-Jul-10	$21,661.34	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	13-Jan-12	$0.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	13-Dec-12	$6,956.04	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	19-Apr-15	($0.04)	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	25-Feb-14	$10,000.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	13-Jan-15	$10,500.00	MISSION SUPPORT ORLANDO
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	16-Sep-06	$6,708.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	21-Aug-07	$33,327.95	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	12-Sep-07	$11,225.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. IMMIG & CUSTOMS	7-Dec-07	$0.00	MISSION SUPPORT DALLAS
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	29-Aug-05	$5,364.00	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	8-May-06	$79,519.09	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	24-May-06	$6,516.90	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	1-Jun-06	$4,876.43	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	3-Aug-06	$3,280.55	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	12-Sep-06	$17,455.05	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	2-Jan-08	$3,397.00	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	25-Aug-08	$4,166.40	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	9-Sep-08	$6,252.39	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	30-Dec-08	$3,297.00	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	31-Aug-10	$3,202.89	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	31-Aug-10	$32,663.75	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	21-Jun-12	$4,267.00	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	24-Aug-12	$36,714.00	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	27-Nov-12	$5,797.60	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	20-Sep-13	$7,876.80	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	24-Sep-13	$10,381.20	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	6-Aug-14	$58,759.25	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE
U.S. CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION	17-Sep-15	$8,077.84	USCIS CONTRACTING OFFICE

 

MO/KSChapter Info 

Know the players:

Their Council Ambassador: Stephen Blower 

blowerlaw@yahoo.com
Blower Law Firm, PC

Their Council Ambassador: Kenneth Schmitt

kschmitt@us-legalsolutions.com
US Legal Solutions
Website: http://us-legalsolutions.com

About Kenneth: Ken is a founder and principal of US Legal Solutions. He has practiced law in the St. Louis Metropolitan area for over twenty years and in the last fifteen years, has focused  a substantial and increasing portion of his professional time representing immigrants and their employers and families in a variety of immigration and other matters. 

Ken received his Juris Doctorate cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law in 1993, his Master of Arts in Public Administration from St. Louis University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Political Science from St. Louis University in 1989. He is a graduate of St. Pius X High School in Festus, Missouri. He is a lifetime resident of Missouri, was raised in Jefferson County and currently resides in the City of St. Louis,

Kansas CLE Commission
(continuing Legal Education)

400 S. Kansas Avenue
Suite 202
Topeka, KS 66603
Tel: (785) 357-6510

Catholic Legal Immigration Network 

(See the affiliate map for addresses – I count over a dozen for the KS/MO area alone)

Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) is a non-profit legal support organization incorporated in 1988 to serve the nation's most vulnerable immigrants, including refugees/asylum-seekers, detainees, families in need of reunification, laborers abused in the workplace, and survivors of violence.

BIA Pro Bono Project

The BIA Pro Bono Project, CLINIC's partnership with the Board of Immigration Appeals, is one of the nation's most successful pro bono initiatives. Through this project, CLINIC works with more than 400 attorneys and law school clinics to provide pro bono legal representation to indigent immigrants. Through a network of committed volunteers, trainers and mentors, the BIA Project facilitates access to justice, a critical component to safeguarding the rights of vulnerable asylum-seekers and long-time lawful permanent residents. 

Start making a file to share with your local council, state representatives and Congress.   Test the waters to find the people who will work for you and vote the others out!

AN OCEAN of MONEY

Following the Money

TIDES 101
AN OCEAN of MONEY

Tides Foundation and Tides Center 
Excerpted from 57 Varieties of Radical Causes

By Ben Johnson (September 2004)

 (Excerpts:)

The Tides Foundation is a tax-exempt charity established in 1976 by antiwar activist Drummond Pike. It distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations identified with leftwing causes. Among these are United for Peace and Justice, a group led by pro-Castro activist Leslie Cagan; the National Lawyers Guild; the Center for Constitutional Rights; and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, three of whose executives have been indicted for terrorist activities.

From 1994 – 2004, the Heinz Endowments, which Teresa Heinz Kerry heads, have given the Tides entities $8.1 million in grants. Until February 2001, Kerry was also a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Carnegie has given Tides numerous six-figure grants.

Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a variety of causes -- and thereby avoid public accountability for their donations. The donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so, often keeping as much as ten percent of the total amount for “charitable advisory fees.” This allows high-profile individuals to fund extremist organizations by “laundering” their money through Tides, leaving no paper trail.

The entities the Tides Foundation has chosen to fund are overwhelmingly left wing. The so-called “legal left” is the primary beneficiary of Tides ocean of monies. One of its principal beneficiaries, for example, is the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), which began as a Communist front organization and remains proud of its lineage. Its national convention in October 2003 featured a keynote address from Lynne Stewart, a lawyer specializing in defending terrorists who has been indicted by the Justice Department for providing support to sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whose organization, known as the Islamic Group, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, killing six people and injuring more than a thousand.

Along with George Soros and the Ford Foundation, Tides has also funneled tens of thousands of dollars to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), an organization established by Sixties radicals William Kunstler and Arthur Kinoy. Prior to creating the Center, the two floated a plan to establish a new “Communist Party.”

Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Ostensibly a “Muslim civil rights group,” CAIR is in fact one of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations in the United States. CAIR regularly opposes American efforts to fight terrorism, claiming that Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in “hate crimes.”

Many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorist organizations. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.” Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi pleaded guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud in connection with terrorist support activities. Randall Royer, a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning violent anti-American jihad. CAIR has defended terrorist “charities” shut down by the Bush administration. CAIR’s abysmal record led Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to observe that its leaders have “intimate links with Hamas…we know CAIR has ties to terrorism.”

Tides established an Iraq Peace Fund and a Peace Strategies Fund to finance the antiwar movement. These projects fueled MoveOn.org, the website that featured two separate commercials portraying President Bush as Adolf Hitler. The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the website Indymedia provided them “alternate media coverage.” 

Tides also runs an“alternative media source,” the Institute for Global Communications, which describes itself as “a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.” The IGC was the leading provider of web technology to the radical left during the 1990s. With Tides money, the IGC’s Canadian affiliate used an undersea cable to connect Castro’s Cuba to the Internet in 1991.

Further reading 

http://www.henrymakow.com/americas_corporate_elite_funds.html

Henry Makow

Islamic groups

Apparently, the Tides Foundation does not consider any Islamic group to be a threat, even if they have been implicated in terrorist activities by the government.  It has funded the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), probably the leading front group for Islamic radicals in America.  Indeed, three of CAIR's leaders have been arrested for pro-jihadist activities and CAIR spends much of its time attacking American efforts to track, monitor, and arrest domestic terrorists.  They have opposed, for example, virtually every effort by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to monitor Islamic radicals known to be engaged in pro-jihadist activity.

Another Tides recipient, the Democratic Justice Fund, works to end restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States from countries designated as "terrorist nations."

The Tides groups also funds other groups who work against the creation of internal security measures such as the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Voter Fraud groups

When ACORN founder Wade Rathke was caught embezzling a million dollars from ACORN, it was Tides founder Drummond Pike who reimbursed ACORN for the missing money.  Pike did not want an investigation of ACORN that would force it to open its books. 

FUNDERS

Four of its largest supporters are as follows:

The Heinz Endowment.

Led by John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, this group has contributed at least $8.1 million to the Tides entities since 1994.  This is the endowment created by the Heinz food empire which Teresa Heinz still has ownership interest in.

George Soros.

Soros has given more than $7 million to the Tides Foundation.  Tides founder Drummond Pike serves as the treasurer for Soros's Democracy Alliance, a major funder of ACORN.

Ford Foundation. This foundation consistently supports causes Henry Ford would never have supported and has become one of the largest donors to Tides, giving them millions of dollars since 1997. Not only that, but the Ford Motor company also gives to Tides.

Rockefeller Foundation:  They have been funding the left in America for 40 years, so this is no surprise.

Other large Tides donors include: the Pew Charitable Trust, the James Irvine Foundation, Citigroup Foundation,  Kellogg Foundation, Hearst Foundation, Fannie Mae Foundation, JP Morgan Foundation, Bank America Foundation, Chase Manhattan Foundation, Verizon Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, AT & T Foundation, Bell Atlantic Foundation, Citicorp Foundation, ARCO Foundation, US West Foundation, John D. MacArthur Foundation, ALCOA Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation, and the Carnegie Foundation.

Americans need to realize that this is how the hard left in America is now funded. Indeed, this is the same network used by the Obama campaign machine to manipulate public opinion.  This coalition of left wing groups and hijacked foundations will destroy America unless Americans wake up and quit funding the corporations linked to these foundations.

MORE ties to the LEFT

ACLU

The ACLU has defended numerous people active in or affiliated with terrorist organizations.  They wrote a letter to the DOJ asking it to drop charges against Sami-Al-Arian who was connected to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.  The New Left terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, sits on their board.  In the 1970’s Dohrn was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.  Bill Ayers, 1960s leader of the Weather Underground - which he described as the American Red Army - is her husband.

GEORGE SOROS

George Soros (Open Society Institute) has given millions of dollars to the ACLU over the years.  The ACLU and other leftist organizations receive money from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Scherman Foundation, JEHT Foundation, Lear Family Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The Open Society Foundations are billionaire George Soros’ most prominent funding channel. OSF supports a vast number of organizations and operates worldwide in more than 70 countries.

Over the years, OSF has had expenditures of $8 billion.  In 2009, the Open Society Foundations had expenditures of $683 million in support of justice, human rights, public health, media, governance, and education.

Author Ron Arnold  describes the Open Society Foundations as a global network of dozens of Soros entities that have paid millions to overthrow governments in the Soviet Union, Serbia, Georgia, and the United States. Soros' personal attitudes about America are very negative and he regards capitalism to be the major threat to the world, as he once regarded communism to be. Soros makes no secret of his beliefs. The man who made it big because of America and capitalism now hates both and seeks to destroy them.

To create the 'Age of Open Society,' Soros’ vision would require terminating U.S. sovereignty, disposing of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights, or at least significant amendments to make them square with open society norms, and reforming the United Nations to facilitate a world socialist governance with the new social-political institutions to enforce its principles, such as the International Criminal Court.”

See www.groupsnoop.org for more information about the hijacking of America

And Discover the Networks www.discoverthenetworks.org

Tides Connections

Drummond Pike has been involved with all of the following foundations and organizations.  This list is far from complete.  He is married to Elizabeth "Liza" Cohen who helped create Resource Media for enviro group outreach.  He started out as associate director for the Ford Foundation Center for Community Change's Youth Project in Washington D.C.  He learned that rich young heirs financed poor young activists in anti-business organizing projects.  Soon he was hired away by Alan Stephen Davis, son of insurance mogul and AARP co-founder Leonard Davis.  Pike led his ShAlan Foundation.

Anti-War and Pro Muslim

Peace Strategies Fund	Gave money to Center for Constitutional Rights that wants to establish a Communist Party
Iraq Peace Fund	Gives money to MoveOn.org	Also gives $ to National Council of Churches, Arab-American Action Network, Physicians for Social Responsibility	Also pro-Castro groups: United for Peace and Justice; Center for Constitutional Rights
A Better Way Project	Coordinates activities of United for Peace & Justice and Win Without War coalition
Indymedia	Rec'd thousands from Tides
Institute for Global Communications	Leading provider of web tech to radical left	Links to all kinds of left groups	ANSWER - communist org
United for Peace and Justice	Communist Party member Leslie Cagan	See Better Way Project
Win Without War Coalition	Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann Foundation
9/11 Fund, now the Democratic Justice Fund	Part of the half million dollars in grants went to NY Gay and Lesbian Anti-violence Project to protect rights of homo Arabs
Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR)	Rec'd Tides Money	A leading anti-terrorism org in the Wahhabi Lobby with links to Hamas	Exec Dir Nihad Awad openly supported hamas.  in fact, they are terrorists - wolves in sheep's clothing
National Lawyers Guild (NLG) See World Trade Center bombing	Communist front	Lynne Stewart, atty, communicated with Egypt terrorist cells
Alliance for Justice
Asian Law Caucus
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights

Our Tax Dollars

Quite a few articles have come out in the last few days regarding the fact the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions in federal grants.

A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database.

Researchers found that the Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City received nearly $3 million from the Department of Agriculture for the past few years.  The money went primarily to the mosque’s Crescent Clinic as part of the WIC program (Women, Infant and Children nutrition program.)

Property records show the mosque is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which acts as a financial holding company for Islamic organizations. It offers sharia-compliant financial products to Muslim investors, operates Islamic schools and owns more than 300 other mosques throughout the U.S.

Founded in 1973 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood-backed Muslim Students Association, NAIT’s most controversial connection is to the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror financing cases. Along with other Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations like the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), NAIT was named a co-conspirator in the federal case but was not indicted.

At the Holy Land Foundation trial, evidence was presented that ISNA diverted funds from the accounts it held with NAIT to institutions linked to Hamas and to Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior Hamas leader. Federal prosecutors introduced evidence in the case that “established that ISNA and NAIT were among those organizations created by the U.S.-Muslim Brotherhood.” Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks drawn from ISNA’s account and deposited in the Holy Land Foundation’s account with NAIT were made payable to “the Palestinian Mujahadeen,” which is the original name for Hamas’ military wing.

Purportedly backed by money from Saudi Arabia and supporting a fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, NAIT holds the deed to the Islamic Society of Boston, which operates the mosque attended by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the so-called Boston Marathon bombers.

It also controls the Islamic Center of San Diego, which was attended by Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two al-Qaeda members who helped fly American Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

According to a 2002 Newsweek investigation, members of the San Diego mosque helped the two terrorists obtain housing, driver’s licenses and social security numbers.

The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has its own loose links to terrorist activities. This mosque held the funeral for Nadir Soofi, one of the two jihadis who attempted to pull off a terrorist attack in Garland, Tex. Soofi, who was 34, and his accomplice, 30-year-old Elton Simpson, opened fire outside of an art exhibit featuring cartoons of Muhammad, but were killed by a security guard. Both Soofi and Simpson attended the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix, which land deeds show is owned by NAIT.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/28/mosque-linked-to-muslim-brotherhood-has-received-millions-in-federal-grants/#ixzz3vtBOY7ZS

and at:

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article38924613.html

Sedgwick County Kansas Commissioners (Wichita area) voted in October 2015 regarding the 2$ million grant for WIC.  The federal grant is administered through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Chairman Richard Ranzau, on behalf of the majority of Sedgwick County commissioners, wrote a letter to Susan Mosier, the secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which manages how WIC money is distributed.  The commissioners want to block illegal immigrants from receiving benefits under the WIC federal nutrition program.

The WIC program issues checks to low-income families for foods like milk, eggs, cereal, cheese and baby formula. It also provides nutritional and breastfeeding education. County commissioners are asking that the state “take any and all necessary actions to ensure that participation in the WIC program is limited to ‘United States citizens, nationals and qualified aliens.”

Ranzau wrote the letter a day after the county voted to accept a $1.94 million WIC grant. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment would have to submit a plan to change its eligibility requirements, says Cassie Sparks, a department spokesperson and it would apply to all 105 counties in Kansas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture would have to approve the new statewide policy as well.

I think this is a project worth pursuing!   Our tax dollars need to be used for Our American citizens – not for illegal aliens and refugees.   Below is a breakdown of federal monies distributed to listings for the search term, “Islamic.”   The list is not a complete list – more information will follow.   This type of information  needs to be given to all our local, state and federal representatives.  It is time to fight for our country and for our rights as an American citizen.

You can find some important and eye-opening information at
https://www.fpds.gov/fpdsng_cms/index.php/en/
Search on "Islam" or "Islamic   (I was unable to post the 63 page table to blogger but you can find it at the link below.  You will have to cut and paste the link into your browser.)

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=D9BBD26D9F2628F0!46585&ithint=file%2cdocx&app=Word&authkey=!AKYw4gAeDlHNqoM

This list does not come close to revealing all of our tax money that is spent on extreme left, anti-American projects and causes.  We need to take this type of factual information to our city councils, state legislators and to Congress.  

My next post will be some basic information about the Tides Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundation.