What’s happening with the Mijente Support Committee ads in Memphis is not random. It is part of a much larger pattern, and Tennessee Christians should understand it clearly.
Mijente Support Committee is a real activist nonprofit, not some anonymous local effort. Their own website describes them as an organizing hub for “Latinx and Chicanx justice,” and their broader Mijente network openly advocates against deportations, detention, and immigration enforcement.
And yes, the Memphis ads are real.
The Memphis Flyer reported on March 2 that Mijente Support Committee launched a billboard campaign in 200 cities, including Memphis, targeting ICE spending with messages like, “They get billions to beat us up. We get layoffs and rent hikes.” The Los Angeles Times separately confirmed the same coordinated national billboard campaign, noting that the signs appeared in Memphis, Miami, Raleigh, and Los Angeles.
So this is not a rumor.
It is a coordinated national messaging operation.
Now zoom out.
For years, there has been a deliberate effort to shape evangelical opinion on immigration through coalitions, advocacy campaigns, and institutional partnerships that wrap political messaging in biblical language.
The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has publicly acknowledged that it helped create the Evangelical Immigration Table in 2012. The ERLC also states that the coalition promoted immigration reform principles including both border security and a “path toward legal status and/or citizenship” for illegal immigrants who qualify.
It is also a matter of public record that defenders of the Evangelical Immigration Table have acknowledged that the National Immigration Forum, which supported the Table, received Open Society grants, even while denying that Soros money directly funded EIT itself. That distinction matters if you want to be precise.
The cleaner and more accurate way to say it is this:
Open Society money did not need to directly fund every faith-facing coalition for the influence to be real.
It is enough that the broader immigration advocacy infrastructure, the same infrastructure that touches churches, coalitions, and public messaging, has been supported by the same left-wing foundation ecosystem.
And that ecosystem is not hypothetical.
Mijente’s own donation page says the movement operates through multiple entities:
•Mijente as a 501(c)(4)
•Mijente Support Committee as its 501(c)(3)
•Mijente PAC for election-related activity reported to the FEC
That means you are not looking at some spontaneous grassroots church flyer.
You are looking at a professional advocacy apparatus with nonprofit, political, and electoral components.
If you want to make the foundation-money point, do it carefully.
A secondary source, InfluenceWatch, reports that in 2022 Mijente Support Committee received funding from Tides Foundation and Ford Foundation, among others. That is useful for context, but because it is a secondary aggregator rather than a primary filing, I would use it as supporting context rather than the centerpiece of the argument.
So the right takeaway is not “every pastor involved is corrupt.”
The right takeaway is this:
When a national activist network with a 501(c)(3), a 501(c)(4), and a PAC is buying anti-ICE billboards in Memphis, and when that messaging lands in a city with deep church networks and real moral credibility, Christians should not pretend it is neutral.
It is political persuasion.
It is ideological cultivation.
And it deserves scrutiny, especially when it borrows the language of compassion while pushing a larger agenda of immigration activism, reduced enforcement, and emotional pressure on the public.
Ask simple questions:
Who paid for the ad?
Who is the legal sponsor?
What entity is behind it?
What other entities are attached to it?
What policy outcome does it serve?
Then decide whether this is really ministry, or just dressed up activism.
"YOUR TAX $ WASTED" — The non-profit Mijente Support Committee has posted five anti-ICE billboards in Memphis, citing the federal agency’s cost to taxpayers and its immigration enforcement practices.
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