If you’re wondering “Who gets to decide which foreigners are going to be imported into towns and neighborhoods to boost Democrat election chances,” one answer is “George Soros.”
“enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly”
That is what the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros-foundation backing, wants policymakers to do. The instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.
Two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for newcomers. Its proposed applications include planning where refugees and asylum seekers could settle.
The agenda reaches straight into the question of who gets to shape your town: which places should receive newcomers, which private actors should help sponsor them, and how arrivals could be encouraged to stay.
Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering September 1, 2024, through February 27, 2026. That period includes the release of both proposals.
George Soros founded Open Society. The same Niskanen disclosure lists another $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation of New York and $100,000 from Migration Policy Institute for immigration work, with grant terms also spanning the publications.
Your county, scored for immigration
The Migration Match Index report describes communities with:
“aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply”
Its model screens unemployment, job openings, rental vacancies, affordability and age. Older residents and available apartments become indicators that a community could accommodate more migration.
Maybe Niskanen had a hand in importing all those illegal aliens working at plants in near-slave-labor conditions we kept hearing about.
The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following:
“an influx of asylum seekers at the border”
Translation: We want cheap illegal alien labor that will vote for Democrats once we amnesty them. Just like Chuck Schumer admitted.
Niskanen’s involvement in private refugee sponsorship already extends beyond publishing recommendations.
Its 2025 annual report says it:
“helped conceive and implement”
Welcome Corps, the private refugee-sponsorship program established during the Biden administration.
The same annual report promotes the new migration index as guidance for policymakers, employers and local leaders. It identifies no agency using the index to place people.
Niskanen’s April 2025 retrospective explains the employer pathway in the separate Welcome Corps at Work pilot. Refugee candidates interviewed with U.S. businesses. A job offer led into resettlement processing and matching with a private sponsor group in the employer’s community.
Niskanen reported that 12 employers extended offers to 23 refugee candidates. Those figures count job offers, not confirmed arrivals.
Call me a stickler for due process, but I don’t think immigration policy should be taken from the federal government and given to random businesses.
A town’s future should require more than a vacancy rate and a donor-funded recommendation.
Here’s a map of the places they want to import illegal aliens:
Funny how in the Democrat-dominated west coast there’s only two counties total targeted for California, Oregon and Washington. Why, it’s almost like they don’t need to flip those states blue.
There’s a list at the end of the article listing every county. For Texas, the list is “Cottle County; Dimmit County; Edwards County; Gillespie County; Hartley County; La Salle County; Parmer County; Potter County; Upton County; Ward County.” Potter County is home to Amarillo, and Gillespie to Fredericksburg, but all the rest are under 12,000 people. The sort of places you could change the demographics of rapidly if you started air-dropping illegal aliens in.
Can we start calling it an invasion yet?
(Previously.)
(Hat tip: Director Blue.)