PULSE POINTS:
❓ What Happened: Gregory Maniatis, director at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, admitted that progressive politicians’ failure to manage migration and progressive foundations’ lawfare to protect illegal aliens has sown chaos.
👥 Who’s Involved: Gregory Maniatis, Open Society Foundations, progressive non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the Trump administration.
📍 Where & When: United States, with Maniatis’s remarks made at a Carnegie Council event in April.
💬 Key Quote: “Chaos is the defining story of failure amongst progressives,” Maniatis confessed.
⚠️ Impact: Maniatis’s admission exposes how progressive elites’ legal tactics and refusal to enforce order paved the way for America First.
IN FULL:
Gregory Maniatis, a director at George Soros’s far-left Open Society Foundations, has admitted that progressive immigration policies plunged America’s border into chaos. Speaking candidly at a Carnegie Council event in April, Maniatis admitted that 12 years of Democrat control over the past 16 years failed to deliver a functional immigration system, instead fostering anarchic conditions that President Donald J. Trump has capitalized on to restore order.
“Chaos is the defining story of failure amongst progressives,” Maniatis said, pinpointing the refusal of Democratic leaders to address a “chaotic” border system, particularly over the last decade. He criticized the “conspiracy of silence” that allowed employers to exploit illegal alien workers while progressive politicians used a broken illegal immigration system to let illegal aliens “disappear” into communities rather than persuade the public to accept mass migration or manage it effectively. “Not everyone has the right to stay,” he conceded, acknowledging that this leniency fueled public frustration.
Maniatis said progressive elites have been ignoring the “public desire for order,” noting that only when Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) began busing migrants to Democrat cities were urban liberals forced to confront the consequences of their policies.
Maniatis also criticized the role of foundations like his own, accusing them of over-relying on lawfare to expand migrants’ opportunities to establish themselves in the U.S. without winning public support. “I think foundations have played a negative role in a lot of this. We have relied way too much on litigation… when in fact this is a project of political persuasion,” he said, recalling that “we have quietly gone into courts to try to expand rights without actually winning in the court of public opinion.”
However, he suggested he still wants asylum seekers to be brought to the U.S. in historically high numbers through sponsorship programs, and—despite conceding to an overreliance on lawfare—he said some his key work at the moment “is litigating a series of cases that include the refugee program and the sponsorship programs.”
WATCH:
Gregory Maniatis from the Soros Open Society Foundation says they are funding the NGOs that are using the courts to stop the Trump administration from deporting illegal immigrants after the NGOs, the Biden regime, and the UN worked together to flood our country with millions of… pic.twitter.com/5RNMDK1IwF
— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) May 14, 2025
