EXCLUSIVE: GeorgeSoros-backed charity that may have 'violated' federal law still appears to be lobbying, experts say
Alianza Americas claimed on its 2019 and 2020 tax forms that it didn't lobby, prompting the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog, to file an IRS complaint in October, alleging the 501 nonprofit group contrarily discloses"extensive lobbying activities" in these same documents. Still, it appears Alianza has lobbied on the heels of it potentially breaking federal law, according to charity experts.
Alianza, which received roughly $1.4 million from Soros's Open Society Foundations network between 2016 and 2020, said on its 2019 and 2020 tax forms that it engaged in advocacy related to Temporary Protected Status. TPS is a policy that lets immigrants remain in the United States if their native country is dealing with extraordinary conditions such as armed conflict.
But certain tweets recently indicate Alianza has continued to lobby directly and indirectly, meaning the nonprofit group should check off that it has done so on its tax forms for those years, according to Styron and Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center.In January 2021, Alianza said it met with Rep. Darren Soto and Sen. Tim Kaine "to expand" TPS for countries that were affected by both Hurricane Eta and Hurricane Iota in 2020.
In September 2022, Alianza posted on Twitter detailing how it met with members of Congress as part of its"#FreedomForAll" campaign to"end immigration detention and re-invest the billions spent on lock-ups to fund a universal legal representation program for people who migrate and those in any immigration proceedings."
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