It turns out that hundreds of millions in U.S. tax dollars was being doled out to a radical George Soros-funded legal group at the tip of the spear of the leftist billionaire’s political war against the American criminal justice system. Talk about law and disorder!
Data research outfit Morse Research tipped the internet off with a shocking report detailing how “$636.7 million” in awarded contracts was gifted and hand-wrapped for the radical left-wing Vera Institute of Justice by the Department of Health and Human Services.
MRC Business was able to verify the veracity of these contracts through the USASpending.gov database, which were awarded by the DHHS between 2009 and 2021 in obligated amounts. MRC Business noted in its groundbreaking 2024 investigation that Vera Institute, which received $11,024,679 from Soros between 2016 and 2022, was part of a cabal of left-wing Soros-backed groups that directed and controlled the Soros-funded local and state prosecutors responsible for perpetuating a wave of soft-on-crime policies that has ransacked major cities across the country.
What makes the tax dollar funding worse in light of the context is that the lucrative contracts were specifically engineered towards helping illegal immigrants with legal services. Specifically, per Morse, the contracts “overwhelmingly support ‘legal service providers’ for unaccompanied children (UC/UAC) referred to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).” As 6 USC § 279(g)(2) defined, the term “unaccompanied alien child” means “a child who— (A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States; (B) has not attained 18 years of age; and (C) with respect to whom— (i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.”
The contracts fit a broader agenda by Vera (and Soros by extension) to establish a federal initiative to combat efforts to curb illegal immigration enforcement, as Morse analyzed:
These awards align with Vera's broader ‘Advancing Universal Representation’ initiative, which seeks to establish a federal right to taxpayer-funded lawyers for anyone facing deportation—dramatically increasing the likelihood of remaining in the U.S. (studies cited by Vera itself note representation boosts success rates tenfold).
Morse Research also pointed to a 2022 report by the Center for Immigration Studies exposing Vera scoring another contract worth anywhere between $171.7 million and nearly $1 billion to “provide legal assistance to unaccompanied alien children (UACs) in immigration proceedings.” Vera doesn’t beat around the bush as to what its end game is, as it celebrated following then-candidate Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory:
The 2020 election brought much joy and relief to immigrant rights activists, many of whom worked around the clock to help defeat a president who made cruelty to immigrants a central tenet of his administration, and amplified the inhumanity of an immigration system that has been never been fair or just.
In April 9, 2025, Vera kvetched that the Trump Department of Justice had terminated some of the contracts it received to the tune of $5 million in DOJ grants collectively, railing that it is the latest so-called “civil society organization to be targeted by the Trump administration.” But as Morse concluded, what Vera advocates for on the taxpayer’s dime as nothing to do with justice or "civil society" as much as it does with fomenting the unraveling of law and order:
In short, Vera uses federal contracts—hundreds of millions for legal aid to illegal entrants—to subsidize an advocacy machine that actively works to expand immigration, reduce enforcement, and advance a progressive equity’ worldview.
Americans should demand Congress terminate these cash flows immediately.
Click on the following link to download and read the full 2024 MRC Business report: Law & Dis-Order How The Soros Machine Directs and Controls Prosecutors Across America to Implement His Leftist Agenda.
