A newly surfaced profile of Alex Soros, heir to George Soros’s massive left-wing network, is shedding light on how a handful of Soros-funded activist groups successfully pressured Democrats to back one of their most fringe ideas yet: decriminalizing illegal border crossings.

According to New York Magazine, a coalition of eight progressive NGOs—seven of which receive funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF)—teamed up during the 2020 primary season to push Democrat candidates into endorsing the decriminalization of illegal immigration. And they succeeded.

Despite polling showing the idea was wildly unpopular with the American public, prominent candidates like Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Kirsten Gillibrand adopted the platform. Only Joe Biden and Michael Bennet declined to sign on at the time.

The groups behind the campaign included United We Dream Action, MoveOn, Indivisible, Sunrise, and others. After Biden won the nomination, a ninth Soros-funded group, Latino Victory Project, pledged to continue pressuring him to adopt the policy in full.

The revelation adds fuel to growing concerns on the right that Democrat immigration policy isn’t being shaped by voters—but by powerful activist networks flush with billionaire cash.

Conservative critics say the Soros apparatus is not only influencing immigration law but actively undermining national sovereignty. As Breitbart News has previously reported, Soros-backed organizations are now deeply embedded in efforts to sue the Trump administration over its immigration enforcement—ranging from lawsuits opposing the deportation of illegal alien gang members, to challenges against ending birthright citizenship, to defending Biden-era parole pipelines.

Trump officials say it’s part of a broader strategy to obstruct border enforcement through the courts, since Democrats can’t win those fights in Congress.

“This isn’t just policy disagreement—it’s lawfare,” one senior Trump official said. “They’re using the legal system to shut down immigration laws that Americans support.”

The New York Magazine profile acknowledges the dynamic, citing a post-election “consensus” even among liberal media that progressive nonprofits—propped up by groups like OSF—have dragged the Democrat Party toward deeply unpopular positions.

From radical ideas on immigration, to soft-on-crime policies, to far-left gender ideology, these foundations often claim to speak for the working class. In reality, the report notes, they’re run by a highly educated elite disconnected from the voters they claim to represent.

This Soros-fueled shift, conservatives argue, is precisely what cost Democrats support among working-class voters in 2024—and helped power Donald Trump back to the White House.

As Trump moves swiftly to restore law and order at the southern border—deporting gang members and dismantling Biden’s open-border programs—the Soros-aligned opposition is pivoting back to its original playbook: funding activism and launching lawsuits to undermine him from the outside.

But this time, the Trump administration is pushing back—with legal reforms, DHS overhauls, and growing support for stronger border laws in Congress.

Republicans say this moment is a defining test: Will immigration policy be set by elected leaders—or by a handful of billionaire-funded activist groups working behind the scenes?

With Trump now back in office, that question may soon be answered.