A group of liberal donors led by billionaire philanthropist, George Soros are making a $15 million push to mobilize the Latino vote during the November General elections. According to the New York Times, Soros will make a $5 million contribution to a super PAC called Immigrant Voters Win PAC. The move aims to channel the anti-immigrant rhetoric and outrage coming from the GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and other Republican voices into Democratic votes. The organizers of the event hope to bring about 400,000 new Democratic Party voters to the polls.
Political strategists drafted in the campaign agree that this will is the largest push to target Latino and immigrant voters in the country’s long political history. The president of the Latino Victory Project, Cristobal Alex sees …show more content…
Open Society runs various projects in over 100 countries. He is a big supporter of government accountability and human rights. According to the OpenSocietyFoundations.org, George Soros started his philanthropic work back in 1979; when he began sponsoring black student’s university education in apartheid South Africa. Soros also underwrote the largest move to bring Roma people into the mainstream European society.
He offered school and college tuition to thousands of Roma students, young people from marginalized societies and refugees in conflict areas. His other great achievement is the establishment of an international transparency and accountability system to oversee natural resource extraction industries. These industries have been blamed for making secretly payments money to various tyrannical regimes. The other organizations that Soros has supported in past include; the Institute of New Economic Thinking, Global Witness and the European Council on Foreign