What You Need to Know About Soros and the Anti-ICE LA Riots
- by: Matt Palumbo
- June 12, 2025
- Source:
Silverloch
- 06/12/2025
Earlier this week the Daily Mail reached out to ask me about my opinion on whether or not George and Alex Soros were playing any role in the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots.
The riots have featured an array of players in the far-left coalition, and the Soros Open Society Foundation (OSF) isn’t even the only billion-dollar player with some involvement. Billionaire Chinese Communist Party linked billionaire Neville Singham has been bankrolling the mayhem through the “Party for Socialism and Liberation.” Even if the party’s name doesn’t strike a bell, there’s a 100% chance you’ve seen one of their signs at one leftist protest or another.
As is the case for any mass leftist protest, it’s a coalition of aggrieved leftists, organized aggrieved leftists paid to be there, and opportunists looking to exploit the chaos for purposes such as looting. Leftist dark money pouring gasoline on the fire here.
The Soros tie in here is indirect, but still can’t be overlooked.
Quoting directly from the Daily Mail article, authored by reporter James Reinl:
On the Soros-connection specifically:
The LA-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) is another group that's played a role in the protests that spiraled into face-offs with LAPD and federal agents raiding workplaces across the city. CHIRLA staged rallies in LA last week to denounce the ICE raids, which were said to be targeting criminals living in the US illegally.
Research by Palumbo and others showed how CHIRLA received tens of millions of dollars during the Biden administration - mostly from California, but also $450,000 in grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide 'citizenship education and training.'
The total was nearly $34 million in the fiscal year ending June 2023, up from “only” $12 million the year before.
Following Trump's return to the White House in January, DHS cut ties with the group and terminated any further funding in March, including recouping some $101,000 that had yet to be paid out.
The group also received more than $500,000 in 2023 alone from the Tides Foundation, the 'pass-through' body that Soros' Open Society Foundation (OSF) uses to bankroll its progressive causes and activists.
The amount of money that Tides has received from the OSF is mind-boggling. The OSF’s grant database stretches from 2016-2023, and shows funding to Tides each year of the following sums:
- 2023: $9,882,500
- 2022: $6,870,000
- 2021: $24,320,000
- 2020: $8,367,500
- 2019: $4,610,000
- 2018: $6,982,207
- 2017: $5,406,313
- 2016: $6,495,421
This includes all groups in the Tides portfolio, which includes the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and Tides Advocacy.
As for the years not in the OSF’s database, the website InfluenceWatch tracked $22.4 million being given to tides from 1998-2018, but this is an understatement because it’s only counting grants to the “Tides Foundation” specifically.
Meanwhile, there’s a protest with direct Soros involvement right around the corner.
A number of far-left groups in multiple cities are going to protest the Trump administration’s military parade in Washington D.C. this weekend, marking the U.S. army’s 250th birthday.
The “NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance” is being organized by the Indivisible Project, which received $7 million from the OSF.
Will they turn violent too? Time will tell.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of Alex Soros
