The W. K. Kellogg Foundation, long known for its left-wing political activism, has partnered with other radical groups in a program to provide a guaranteed annual income to illegal migrants in New Mexico.
In this pilot program, along with its partners the New Mexico Economic Relief Working Group and national NGO UpTogether, the Foundation will provide no-strings-attached, tax-free monthly payments of $500 to a total of 330 undocumented families across 13 New Mexico counties. To be eligible, a household must be “part of an undocumented or mixed-status immigrant family.” [emphasis added]
The Kellogg Foundation, which effectively controls breakfast food giant The Kellogg Company, is one of the largest and oldest foundations in America. Founded by Will Keith Kellogg, younger brother of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of corn flakes, the Foundation started out in 1930 as a philanthropic enterprise to provide medical care for children.
Less a political activist than his older brother John, who had enthusiastically supported the restrictionist Immigration Act of 1924, W.K. Kellogg nevertheless “fumed over the ‘Socialist trend’ in politics, and not only aided conservative political candidates financially but also with every ounce of influence he could muster.”
Unfortunately for his views, Kellogg was much too loose in his charge to the Foundation’s leadership. In 1930, seeding the Foundation with $66 million in cash and Kellogg’s stock (around $1 billion today), he told the trustees, “Use the money as you please so long as it promotes the health, happiness and well-being of children.” That injunction proved far too flexible over the years and, by 1992, with the launch of the African American Men and Boys Initiative, a pronounced leftist tilt increased. There followed over the years more and more such initiatives, such as the Emerging Funds in Communities of Color, and Cultures of Giving, the Center for Living Democracy’s “Bridging the Racial Divide,” and funding for Black Lives Matter, La Raza, El Centro De Igualdad y Derechos, and George Soros’s Open Society Institute, along with a host of other far-left causes.
Although, as FoundationWatch says, the Foundation has “little to show for the vast amount of money it has spent,” which amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars, it keeps giving, as shown in this latest initiative. Its immigration goals were made clear in 2017 when CEO La June Montgomery Tabron signed a joint statement aimed at some of President Trump’s executive orders. The statement read in part:
The recently issued immigration executive orders compromise our nation’s founding principles and the Constitution, our standing in the world, and our core values of liberty, justice, and due process. Our foundations . . . are united in the belief that immigrants and refugees are integral to every aspect of our society. . . .Without the contributions of immigrants and refugees now and throughout our history, our collective wellbeing and economic vitality would be greatly diminished.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation needn’t worry so much about its own wellbeing and economic vitality, however. As the seventh largest philanthropic foundation in the U.S., it has total assets of $7.3 billion and is liberally invested in the giant Kellogg Company, a $2 billion concern.
A final ironic note: Just south of New Mexico, across the border, the government of Mexico has recently confiscated 380,000 boxes of Kellogg’s cereals, charging that their marketing tactics violate anti-childhood-obesity laws. All the more reason for poor W. K. to spin in his grave.
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