Wednesday, November 28, 2018

CALIFORNIA IN MELTDOWN! - TENS OF BILLIONS IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS BUT NO FIRE DEFENSE



BLAME PG&E FOR YET ANOTHER FIRE!



Importing caravan and other refugees costs US taxpayers $8.8 billion, or $80,000 a head



As the caravan camps out in self-induced misery in Tijuana, and the left calls for the entry of more refugees (and asylees) into the U.S., a new report from the Federation for Immigration Reform shows that such imports don't come cheap.
According to the Washington Examiner:
The Federation for American Immigration Reform Monday put the five-year price tag at $8.8 billion in federal and state costs, or nearly $80,000 per refugee. There are some 18 federal and state programs refugees can tap for financial help, including food stamps, child care, public housing and school loans.
On a yearly average, it is $1.8 billion, or $15,900 per refugee.  Included in that are enormous refugee resettlement costs such as $867 million in welfare, housing assistance and education.
For the advocates of bigger government, that's a good thing, given the growing numbers of bureaucrats needed to "service" such clients.  More clients, more costs; more costs, more bureaucrats.  What's more, half of these refugees and asylees (the terms are used interchangeably in the report because refugees come from their home countries, while asylees apply from the U.S.) stay on Medicaid for five years or more, meaning their incomes stay low, either based on their low skill levels and inability to assimilate or because they have high health care costs and keep their incomes low to ensure a free ride.
The Democrats want more of this.  Here's one report calling for it from lefty Quartz just today.
3. Widen the scope of those who qualify for asylum
Nazario says the US also needs to focus on the asylum seekers who are most at risk of violence in their home countries.  In June, then-attorney-general Jeff Sessions said that immigration judges would no longer be able to consider domestic violence or gang violence as general grounds for asylum, reversing an Obama-era precedent.  Sessions described domestic abuse and violence as "personal crimes."  This "reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of domestic violence, harkening back to an era when rape and partner abuse were viewed as private matters as well as of the brutality and scope of gang violence," said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
It's the usual lefty solution of throwing taxpayer money at a problem instead of going to the root of the problem, which is the problems in the refugees' home countries, as well as the benefit disparity between what's on offer in home countries and first countries of refuge and the vast banquet of benefits available to U.S. refugees and asylees inside the U.S.
Seriously, we could cut the cost in half by handing each refugee a stack of $40,000 in bills in exchange for his staying out of the U.S., which shows just how bad the whole situation is.
President Trump has cut the vast numbers of refugees admitted to the U.S. sharply, but that move has just brought more fury from the left, which sees these refugees and asylees, dependent as they are on government services and unlikely to change that situation, as major sources of new Democrat votes.
Eighty thousand bucks could also do a lot of good in these refugees' home countries or wherever their first countries of refuge are.  Pity it won't get there, given the Democrats' insistence on importing more and more of this poverty – and inability to succeed in the U.S. as their means of virtue-signaling.  It makes no sense.  And the report's conclusion, that the U.S. should step up helping refugees in their home countries and first countries of asylum, makes a lot of sense.

Camp Fire Contained: 88 Dead, 203 Still Missing



Only a staicase remains of a two story building in Paradise, Calif., on November 17. The Camp Fire, California's worst and deadliest, was declared 100 percent contained Sunday. Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI
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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea announced the official death toll from the Camp Fire wildfire in a statement on Monday night, with more than two hundred Californians still unaccounted for.

Only 16 of the corpses recovered have been positively identified, but 54 have tentative identification. Of the known 16 bodies found, 13 were residents of Paradise, and all but two were senior citizens. “Unfortunately, many of the remains we’ve located have been nearly completely consumed by the fire,” sheriff Kory Honea said. “What they’re recovering is bones and bone fragments.”
Such thorough destruction makes the search difficult: The death toll was most recently increased after forensic investigators realized the remains of two people actually included a third. Still, Honea is optimistic. No new remains were found on Sunday. “That’s positive, because we’ve made good progress in covering the vast majority of the area that we need to cover,” Honea said.
The news is grim, but not wholly so, since Honea also said that 2,689 people originally listed in the aftermath of the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history have been found. Now, people simply want to return to what is left of their homes. Unfortunately, many areas remain under evacuation orders.
“A lot of people are anxious to get back into their properties and communities,” Honea said. “We are very anxious to get people back into their properties. But the thing that we have to do before we can allow that is ensure that the area is safe for the public to return.”


DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S FIRES:
This is what crony capitalism gives you!

"In fact, the destruction has again exposed the criminal indifference and negligence of the ruling class and both its political parties, Democrat and Republican. Social infrastructure, including fire departments, have been starved of funds for decades as trillions of dollars have been funneled into the bank accounts of the rich."

 WHY DID THE FIRST LADY OF CORRUPTION and AMERICA’S GREATEST WAR PROFITEER SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN and her cronies PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC BURN DOWN MEXIFORNIA?



 CALIFORNIA BURNS …. Again!


The Mexican welfare state under the weight of corruption and staggering cost of the LA RAZA welfare state on their legals’ backs!


"In fact, the destruction has again exposed the criminal indifference and negligence of the ruling class and both its political parties, Democrat and Republican. Social infrastructure, including fire departments, have been starved of funds for decades as trillions of dollars have been funneled into the bank accounts of the rich."





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