Here’s what the immigration group Alianza Americas says about the federal budget passed last week:
This bill is not just harmful, it is vile. It represents a devastating transfer of resources away from working families and into the hands of billionaires, corporations, and a bloated immigration enforcement machine.
Let us be very clear: immigrants have never been the problem. The true crisis lies in a capitalist system that rewards hoarding wealth over human dignity.
Alianza should at least be given credit for not hiding its real agenda. Its promotion of open borders and its hostility to law enforcement should be considered part of its broader struggle to dismantle capitalism.
On June 9, 2025, Alianza denounced the “atrocious and unnecessary use of force against peaceful protesters” during the anti-ICE protests and riots in Los Angeles.
Alianza went on to claim that “Trump is using Los Angeles as a testing ground to advance his authoritarian agenda” and that he is using “military force as a tool of control.” Reports indicate that the only unprovoked violence during the protests was directed against law enforcement personnel, government property, and innocent individuals and businesses.
Headquartered in Chicago, Alianza is a nationwide network of 58 “Latin American and Caribbean immigrant-led organizations,” including the Los Angeles-based Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO). Its Operations Director, Luiz Lopez Resendiz, who is also an Alianza board member, asserted that illegal aliens “were being racially profiled and unjustly arrested by ICE. In response, dozens of angelinos peacefully showed up to support our neighbors. These very actions were met with unnecessary violence.”
Alianza’s previous claim to fame was a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis following the transport of illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard in 2022.
Alianza apparently has no problem with a billionaire named Soros. Between 2016 and 2023, three nonprofits within the Open Society Foundations (OSF) network—Open Society Institute, Open Society Policy Center, and Foundation to Promote Open Society—provided approximately $1.9 million to the group.
Despite its radicalism, Alianza has enjoyed tax-exempt status and taxpayer funding. During COVID, the group received $8.5 million from the Department of Health and Human Services.
In October 2022, NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service asking for an investigation of the group’s lobbying members of Congress in 2019 and 2020 for the expansion of Temporary Protected Status, a legal designation that allows immigrants to stay in the United States if their home countries are deemed too dangerous.
In July 2023, NLPC filed a second Complaint alleging that the lobbying continued in 2021, in violation of its 501(c)(3), tax-exempt status. For the years in question, Alianza Americas falsely reported on its tax returns that it did not engage in lobbying.
