“Pro-Refugee” Corporations Are Bankrolling Anti-Immigrant Republicans
Major companies are trying to get good PR by joining a nonprofit that supposedly works to improve the livelihoods of refugees. But those same companies are bankrolling virulently anti-immigrant GOP politicians.
A US Border Patrol agent checks for identification of immigrants as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico at midnight on June 21, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. (Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images)
Major companies are publicly positioning themselves as supporters of refugees by joining the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit whose big corporate members work to improve the livelihoods of refugees by “integrating refugees into supply chains.”
However, these same companies are bankrolling GOP politicians who are raising campaign money off of their public abuse of immigrants — while mistreating their workers and expressly tying the worth of refugees to their labor productivity.
This situation reveals how companies leverage the nonprofit industry and social justice rhetoric to foster a progressive public image while turning the refugee crisis into for-profit schemes and supporting anti-immigrant politicians.
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