Original Article By Hudson Crozier
Sixteen activist groups mobilizing against immigration agents in Minnesota have one thing in common: financial support from a nonprofit backed by the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations.
Once again we know who keeps funding the anarchists of America! The global tyrant himself, George Soros!
The Minneapolis-based Headwaters Foundation for Justice awarded $3,321,013 in funds and non-cash assistance since 2014 to groups that now seek to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or protest the agency, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of tax filings, activists’ websites and their social media posts. One related protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) airport led to around 100 arrests on Jan. 23.
🚨 Scene at Minneapolis airport as anti-ICE protesters chant with law enforcement standing guard.
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The Headwaters Foundation did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.
“What we are seeing in the streets of Minneapolis and across Minnesota right now is a fight for collective liberation in real time,” the foundation said in a Wednesday Instagram post announcing $120,000 in new grants. Other Headwaters Foundation grants from 2025 are listed on its website with unspecified dollar amounts.
“Your support of Headwaters will help us meet the ongoing need of funding organizing on the ground,” the post said.
Liberal philanthropy nonprofits disclosed millions in donations to the Headwaters Foundation for more than a decade, including $300,000 in 2020 from Open Society Foundations, which George Soros created and his son now leads. The nonprofit did not respond to a request for comment.
‘ICE Out’ Marches
Several activist groups that coordinated “ICE Out” marches on Jan. 23 were funded by the Headwaters Foundation: Mizna, Unidos MN, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota, Communities Organizing Latine Power and Action (COPAL), Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL), Jewish Community Action, Voices for Racial Justice, Minnesota Freedom Fund and the LGBTQ groups OutFront Minnesota and Gender Justice.
None of the organizations responded to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
Jewish Community Action board member Emma Kippley-Ogman was arrested at the MSP airport demonstration after the crowd blocked a roadway and violated conditions of their protest permit, according to police. Kippley-Ogman defended her actions in an op-ed, declaring, “We cannot keep on with business as usual when our federal government is engaged in escalating state terror right here, right now.” The Headwaters Foundation has given $183,013 to Jewish Community Action, tax forms show.
CTUL told supporters in a post to call its “worker defense hotline” if an employer “threatens you for taking the day off of work” to participate in the Jan. 23 marches. The organization received $1,085,750 from the Headwaters Foundation, tax filings show.
Unidos MN, formerly called Navigate MN, is also hosting an upcoming “healthcare worker resistance training” in February to teach medical employees how to “protect” patients during ICE searches, an Instagram post shows. Unidos MN received $90,250 from the Headwaters Foundation.
Minnesota Freedom Fund’s only Headwaters Foundation grant was for an unspecified amount. The fund also drew support in 2020 from former Vice President Kamala Harris, who encouraged the public to donate to bail out alleged Black Lives Matter rioters.
The Headwaters Foundation also gave at least $25,000 to Mizna, $385,000 to the Greater Minnesota Worker Center, $10,000 to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, $171,000 to Voices for Racial Justice and $318,500 to OutFront Minnesota.
‘Legal Observers’ And Riot Gear
COPAL, the Indigenous Protector Movement and MN8, formerly ReleaseMN8, advocate for so-called observers to follow immigration officials in person.
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