THESE HISPANDERING DEM POLS CAN'T OPEN THEIR FAT MOUTHS WITHOUT HOWLING FOR AMNESTY SO THE REST OF THEIR ILLEGALS CAN BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY
At current legal immigration levels, the U.S.
population is set to hit an unprecedented 404
million residents by 2060 — including a foreign-
born population of 69 million.
population is set to hit an unprecedented 404
million residents by 2060 — including a foreign-
born population of 69 million.
The U.S. does not have to rapidly increase its total
resident population and foreign-born population,
as legal immigration moratoriums have
been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life.
Halting all immigration to the country would
stabilize the population to a comfortable 329
million residents in the next four decades.
resident population and foreign-born population,
as legal immigration moratoriums have
been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life.
Halting all immigration to the country would
stabilize the population to a comfortable 329
million residents in the next four decades.
L.A. could ban homeless people from sleeping near schools, parks and other facilities
Los Angeles has long been locked in battles over where and how people can bed down on its streets and sidewalks — a debate that has played out for decades in City Hall, in the courts and on avenues lined with squalid tents and bedrolls.
The city has been brushed back in court by homeless advocates, who argue that it is cruel and useless to punish people if they have nowhere else to sleep. Last year, those advocates hailed a federal ruling against a Boise, Idaho, law that prohibited sleeping on the street, saying the ruling cemented their earlier victories in Los Angeles and set a crucial precedent across the western United States.
Now L.A. politicians are weighing a new set of rules that could bar people from sitting or sleeping on streets and sidewalks near schools, parks and day care centers, and in a range of other prohibited areas — an idea that has drawn fire from homeless advocates.
With tens of thousands of people bedding down on the streets — far more than the city can house in new homeless housing or shelters built to date — "You can't do this and expect that you'll have something that's enforceable," said attorney Carol Sobel.
The newly proposed restrictions, put forward by Councilman Mitch O'Farrell, would replace a blanket ban on sidewalk sleeping that has been on the books for decades, but which L.A. had agreed to pull back on enforcing at night after being sued by skid row residents.
Sobel, one of the attorneys who represented homeless people in the Jones vs. City of Los Angeles case, called the proposed rules "completely unworkable" and argued that it was ridiculous for city officials to frame their newly proposed restrictions as an effort to comply with the Boise ruling.
The Boise ruling "does not require you to put in all these restrictions," Sobel said, arguing in a letter to council members that the proposed rules would make it almost impossible to sleep anywhere on skid row.
The disputed section of the Municipal Code — 41.18(d) — has been a rallying cry for neighborhood activists who argue that the Jones settlement has led to chaos and blight on city sidewalks. Mark Ryavec, president of the Venice Stakeholders Assn., said that the proposed rules failed to address the most important issue: homeless encampments in or abutting residential areas.
"What we're dealing with here in Venice — and what is so difficult for residents — is these encampments literally being in their frontyard," argued Ryavec, whose group has repeatedly sued the city over homelessness issues.
The proposed rules were unveiled at the council's homelessness committee meeting Wednesday at City Hall, where Senior Assistant City Atty. Valerie Flores said that prohibiting people from sleeping near schools, parks, newly established shelters and in other specified areas would be legally defensible, even after the federal decision that tossed out rules against sleeping on public property in Boise.
In that case, a federal court ruled that "as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property."
But the court also opined that "even where shelter is unavailable, an ordinance prohibiting sitting, lying, or sleeping outside at particular times or in particular locations might well be constitutionally permissible."
Flores argued that L.A.'s existing laws on sidewalk sleeping "would benefit from modernization, clarification and a better balance between the competing needs of persons using the public right-of-way."
After meeting with Flores and other city staffers behind closed doors Wednesday, O'Farrell laid out the proposed rules: No sitting, lying down or sleeping within 500 feet of schools, parks or day care centers. No bedding down near homeless housing, shelters or other facilities to serve homeless people that have opened in recent years.
People would also be banned from bunking down on bicycle paths, in tunnels or on bridges designated as school routes, in public areas with signs barring trespassing or setting closing times for safety or maintenance purposes, and in crowded areas near big venues such as Staples Center.
And people sleeping on the streets would still have to stay away from entrances and driveways and leave enough room for wheelchair users to pass under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
O'Farrell said in a statement Thursday that "the reality is we have sensitive areas to consider and as city leaders we must strike the balance between the needs of those experiencing homelessness and keeping our public spaces safe and accessible."
John Lee, who was recently elected to represent the northwestern San Fernando Valley in a council race that focused heavily on homelessness, said he was still reviewing the proposed rules but called them "a good step" toward protecting public safety and ensuring sidewalks are accessible.
"As I said during the campaign, we need to be compassionate to homeless people," Lee said. "But we have to be compassionate to businesses and homeowners too."
The proposed rules still have to be vetted by the full City Council and drafted by city lawyers before coming back to council members for approval. At the Wednesday meeting, council and committee member David Ryu said he was hearing the proposal for the first time.
A spokesman for Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that their office was reviewing the proposal. Progressive activists said they were galled by the idea.
Such rules would "create containment zones like skid row all over the city," putting homelessness out of sight without addressing the need, said Jed Parriott, a member of the Services Not Sweeps coalition. He and other activists had urged the city to repeal, rather than amend or replace, the existing ban on sidewalk sleeping.
David Busch, a longtime activist who is homeless in Venice, said the city was "looking at this problem backwards."
"Instead of saying, 'Where can people sleep?' they continue to pass things telling us where we can't sleep," Busch said. "We can issue hundreds more tickets, tie up more courtrooms, more jails, more police time with homeless people … and the city can pay out millions more in civil rights lawsuits, or we can do what we need to do."
Other Angelenos had argued against loosening the law on the books. In a letter to council members before Wednesday's meeting, Venice resident Travis Binen said that with tens of thousands of people living on the streets, "the city needs to be able to legally move them instead of leaving them on the sidewalk to die or harm others."
Ryavec, the Venice association president, said that it was premature to adjust the rules, arguing that the city should instead be working with Boise to reverse the "ridiculous decision" that was handed down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Attorneys representing Boise filed a petition Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the federal ruling, arguing that the court decision would have "catastrophic" effects.
L.A. and other cities "are grappling with how to interpret and follow the decision," which "raises more questions than it answers," said Theane Evangelis, lead counsel for Boise.
Evangelis argued that the Boise ruling ties the hands of cities to deal with the harmful effects of encampments, including fires and disease. "It's laudable that L.A. is trying to limit these encampments — but what the 9th Circuit decision is going to mean, in practice, is very much an open question," Evangelis said.
Gary Blasi, professor emeritus of law at UCLA, said that whether L.A.'s proposed rules could survive a court challenge would depend on how they were implemented, including whether homeless people have a practical way to know where they can legally sleep and whether the proposed rules leave enough room on city sidewalks for them to do so.
"Could anyone reasonably be expected to know if a particular spot is more than 500 feet from something?" Blasi asked.
The debate marks the latest turn in L.A.'s long and impassioned battle over where homeless people can lay their heads. More than half a century ago, L.A. enacted a law declaring that "no person shall sit, lie or sleep in or upon any street, sidewalk or other public way."
After homeless residents sued in the Jones case, L.A. reached a settlement agreeing that until it had built a minimum amount of homeless housing, it would allow people to sleep on sidewalks from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. if they stayed far enough from doorways and driveways.
When the 9th Circuit struck down the Boise law, homeless advocates said it reaffirmed the arguments in the Jones case.
The clash also echoes the recent furor over L.A.'s restrictions on where people can sleep in their cars. L.A. had crafted the disputed rules, which ban sleeping in vehicles in residential areas and near parks and schools, after a federal court struck down a citywide ban.
The Los Angeles City Council recently voted to extend the rules over the angry objections of activists, who argued that lawmakers had piled on so many restrictions on parking and sleeping that L.A. effectively had a "de facto ban" on bunking in vehicles.
Backers of the plan said the rules were needed to fend off trash and filth from RVs and other vehicles repurposed as homes.
Democrats enforce crackdown on vehicular homelessness in Los Angeles
On July 30 the Los Angeles City Council restored regulations that had expired at the beginning of the month preventing people from sleeping at night in vehicles on residential streets or living in vehicles within a block of parks, schools, preschools or daycares.
At last count, over 9,500 people live in vehicles throughout the city, and a total of 16,528 in all of Los Angeles County. In Los Angeles, a program of safe parking sites in private lots has room for less than 200 vehicles. Violators of the ordinance are ticketed $25 for the first offence, $50 for the second and $75 for each offense after that.
According to press reports, as the Democratic
Party-controlled City Council voted 13-0 in
favor of the measure, those present began
chanting “Shame on You!”
Opponents of the prohibition point out that there are few options for the homeless. Similar prohibitions apply in the cities that surround Los Angeles. Last month the City of Long Beach announced a plan to give 30-day parking permits in selected areas to families living in their cars, which the city estimates at 85, out of Long Beach’s estimated homeless population of 1,900 persons.
In signing the measure, which is to last until September, Los Angeles’ Democratic mayor Eric Garcetti justified his approval of the measure on the grounds of balancing the needs of the homeless with community complaints of lack of parking and bad sanitation, a time-worn practice of dividing workers and pitting the homeless against their surrounding neighbors. Garcetti cynically promised to provide another 200 “safe-parking spots” this year.
The “safe-parking” initiative, along with many other measures, including giving bus tickets to the homeless to leave town—known cynically as “Greyhound therapy,” a tactic being aggressively pursued by San Francisco and San Diego—and the housing of 21,631 persons last year, have not kept up with the explosion of homelessness in Los Angeles County.
The latest count by the LA Homeless Services Authority reported 58,936 homeless individuals in Los Angeles County, a 12 percent increase from 2018. In the city proper the count is 36,165, 16 percent higher than in 2018. Of those, 27,221 are “unsheltered” (44,214 in the county), a category that includes those forced to live in their vehicles.
In fact, with the exception of a negligible drop in homeless military veterans (from 3,886 to 3,878), the increase impacts every category. Chronically homeless people increased 17 percent since 2018; youth homelessness exploded by 24 percent; senior homelessness jumped 8 percent.
While shelter capacity and homes for the homeless have been built, the growth in the homeless population is being fed by an increase in the number of evictions across the state, a product of the ever-rising cost of rents that far exceeds increases in real wages for most Angelinos.
In Los Angeles, one-third of households spend more than half of their income on housing costs; 721,000 of them are even more “severely rent-burdened.” According to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a person with an hourly wage of $13.25 in Los Angeles would have to work 79 hours a week to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment. Los Angeles needs more than half a million “housing units” to meet the needs of low-income renters.
For apartment units built before October 1978, there is a limited rent-control law which caps yearly rent increases to between 3 and 8 percent. A family that has continuously occupied such an apartment since 1985 would now be paying four times as much as when they moved in.
Under the terms of this labyrinthine law, landlords can raise rents above the rent-controlled percentage for a number of reasons, such as another tenant joining the household. Once tenants move out or are evicted the rent increases to whatever the market will bear, a clause that serves as an incentive for landlords to rid themselves of tenants that face financial uncertainties.
Rent control ended for apartments built after October 1978 on the pretext that rent control lowers the supply of affordable housing in the long-run.
While over 5,000 units have been built in the last year to house the homeless, another 100,000 are planned over the next decade.
Yet, Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin estimates that 110,000 units in Los Angeles currently sit empty; Bonin is proposing a “vacancy tax” such as the one recently passed in the city of Oakland, California. The actual number may even be higher. Housing investigators Walter Dominguez and Brad Kane of the Pico Neighborhood Council found that in many high-rise buildings in trendy West Los Angeles, where monthly rents start at around $3,000 for a studio apartment, 40 to 50 percent of the units are unoccupied.
It is more and more the case that investment firms, such as the Blackstone Group in Sacramento, where renters were recently hit with a 50 percent rent hike, or Taylor Equities in Los Angeles, are buying up apartments and homes in bulk across the state, creating monopolies that manipulate rents at will by controlling the supply of homes.
According to housing advocates, the state as a whole has a 300,000 surplus of above moderate-income rental housing. Investment is also flowing to the building of luxury housing instead of less profitable affordable units.
In the current electoral season, it has become fashionable for politicians, Democrats and Republicans, to call for the break-up of monopolies; this is done with a wink and a nod. No doubt, any palliative measure on homelessness will avoid constraining monopoly profits.
The homeless crisis is a sure indication that
the breakup of those monopolies and the
solution of the homeless crisis in Los
Angeles and in California requires the
breaking up of the housing monopolies, the
takeover of vacant apartments and homes
and their distribution according to need, at
affordable prices. Such a mobilization will not
be carried out by the Democratic Party, which
represents Wall Street and the big banks; it
requires the mass mobilization of workers,
independently of capitalist politicians, and the
socialist transformation of society, to place
human needs ahead of corporate profits.
“MORE THAN 10 MILLION” ILLEGALS IN
CALIFORNIA ALONE
Xavier Becerra breaks the news, files suit against Trump administration
public-charge rule.
August 19, 2019
More than 22 million people are illegally
present in the United States, according to a recent study by scholars at MIT and Yale. Pew Research pegged the figure at 11 million, and for
years it stood as the official count for media and government. It now emerges
that 11 million is more like the number illegally present in California alone.
“California is home to over 10 million
immigrants,” reads a chart displayed by California attorney general Xavier
Becerra and governor Gavin Newsom as they announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s public-charge rule.
“Immigrants,” is California code for “illegals,” a term the state’s ruling
class has banned. As Rachel Bovard notes at American Greatness, even a legal
immigrant’s ability “to stay off the welfare system must be taken into account
when considering qualifications for a green card.”
California heaps welfare benefits on those
illegally present, including nearly $100 million for health care in the recent budget. Many of those 10 million
illegals came to California specifically to get those taxpayer-funded benefits.
It disturbs Becerra and Newsom that this disqualifies the recipients from any
future legal status, but there’s more to it. As attorney Madison Gesiotto explains in The Hill, voting must also be taken
into account.
“Voting as an illegal alien in federal
elections is a crime punishable by fine, imprisonment, deportation, or
inadmissibility.” According to a State Department investigation, false-documented illegals have been voting in federal,
state and local elections for decades. In 1996, illegals cast 784 votes against Republican Robert Dornan in a congressional race
Democrat Loretta Sanchez won by only 984 votes.
If Newsom and Becerra are certain that
more than 10 million people illegally reside in the state, they doubtless know
how many voted in 2016. Trouble is, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
refused to release any voter information to a federal voter-fraud probe.
Back in 2015, Padilla told the Los
Angeles Times, “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I expect
millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California,” with “new
voters” code for ineligible voters. True to form, by March, 2018, more than one million “undocumented” immigrants received driver’s licenses from the state Department
of Motor Vehicles, which automatically registered them to vote under the “Motor
Voter” program.
Padilla is now claiming that only six “California residents” were erroneously added to voter rolls for 2018, that
it was all due to DMV errors, and that none was guilty of “fraudulently voting
or attempting to vote.” To paraphrase John Goodman in The Big Lebowski,
this is what happens when the governor’s own department of finance, not the
official state auditor, investigates the DMV.
In reality, California officials know full
well how many non-citizens voted in 2016 and 2018. With more than 10 million
illegals in the state, the ballpark figure of one million illegal voters is
probably low. In California, illegals are the Democrats’ electoral
college, and the Democrats reward them with welfare benefits and protection
from deportation through sanctuary laws. This raises another issue.
Illegals’ use of welfare benefits and
practice of voting in federal elections disqualifies them from legal residency
and citizenship. This makes for a permanent group of more than 10 million
foreign nationals in California alone. In these conditions, Congress should
start pushing back.
Public officials who apportion
taxpayer-funded benefits for foreign nationals should be required to register
as agents of the governments of those foreign nationals. The primary candidates
would be the governments of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, which Gavin Newsom visited before he had even toured his own state.
State and federal governments should also
bill the
foreign governments for welfare, medical,
education and incarceration
costs. Some of this
could be alleviated by a tax on remissions, such
year. That amount is impossible without massive
inputs from U.S. taxpayers. Legitimate citizens
and legal immigrants have no
obligation to relieve
foreign governments of responsibility for their
own
citizens.
Meanwhile, as Rachel Bovard also notes,
the Trump administration’s new rule only updates a 1996 law proclaiming
“inadmissible” those aliens likely to become a public charge. The law was
supported by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and other leading
Democrats. The Trump administration measure gives more definition to what
constitutes a welfare benefit, food stamps, Medicaid, public housing assistance
and such. Those benefits are all for legitimate citizens and legal immigrants
but Bovard cites Census data showing that 63 percent of non-citizens use the
welfare system.
Those who thought there were only 11
million illegals nationwide were mistaken. Thanks to Jerry Brown crony Gavin
Newsom, and Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running
mate, Americans now understand that “more than 10 million” illegally reside in
California alone, and that might understate the figure.
The MIT-Yale estimate ranges as high as
29.1 million nationwide, more than the population of Australia, with 25,088,636 and a veritable occupation. To all but the willfully
blind, politicians have abandoned the rule of law, and made false-documented
illegals a protected, privileged class.
This is how a nation loses its sovereignty.
HOMELESS IN CALIFORNIAGoing
Medieval in California’s Streets
Fueled by progressive
indifference, the state’s public-health crisis is mounting.
June 4, 2019
California
Health Care
California, to some
people’s way of thinking, is the most modern state in the country, if not the
most cutting-edge place on earth. It’s progressive, hip, innovative—a
bellwether, filled with pioneers and opinion-makers. It’s also unique for its
constant battles against biblical catastrophes—earthquakes, droughts,
landslides, and floods are all part of the state’s past as well as its present,
as are raging wildfires that have left large tracts in ashes. Even secular
humanists might be tempted to declare the state cursed.
Now California is home to
a public-health crisis. This one is no act of God, though, but rather the
inevitable result of tolerating unsanitary conditions. Diseases, some bringing to mind medieval times, have returned to urban streets. Typhus, carried by
infected fleas and transmitted by rats and other animals, plagues Los Angeles.
Hepatitis A, spread through fecal matter, has sickenedmore than 1,000 people in Southern California
since 2017. A “trash and rodent nightmare” threatens downtown
Los Angeles. There’s “a mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash” that
stretches “a good 20 yards along a skid row alley,” where “rats popped their
heads out of the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole.”
The garbage and disease
outbreaks are closely linked. In late May, the local NBC affiliate reported
that “piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after
promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last
year’s record number of flea-borne typhus cases.” These garbage piles, along
with human feces in San Francisco streets requiring apps for
avoidance, contrast with California’s progressive past. Progressives once cared
about clean streets and public health. Today, they value political correctness,
protecting the interests of the homeless over pedestrians. Their policies have
produced appalling conditions in urban neighborhoods.
“This approach calls
itself progressive but is the polar opposite of what progressives supported,
which was sanitation and public health,” said Joel Kotkin, a City Journal contributing editor and a Chapman
University fellow. “Sewer socialism, if you will, was a noble attempt to clean
up what were often dirty dystopias. The new progressives want to create a new
green dystopia, turning the modern city back into a place more like Dharavi in
Mumbai than La Guardia’s New York.”
Henry Miller, a senior
fellow for health studies at the Pacific Research Institute, believes that
California is virtually unable to provide basic municipal services. The state
“has become a victim of its own attractiveness, combined with political
mismanagement” and “one-party rule.” Miller agrees with the downtown merchant
who told a Los
Angeles Times columnist
that “once a pile takes shape, the appearance of lawlessness and neglect is
a magnet for other dumpers.” The same, he noted, is “true of homeless encampments,
panhandlers, the expansion of skid row neighborhoods, the increase in vandalism
and other minor crimes, and so on.”
Under progressive
governance, California appears to be regressing at an alarming pace. While the
state can’t do much about some disasters, aside from cleaning up afterward, it
can stop its self-inflicted march into the past.
Los
Angeles Homelessness Surges 12 Percent: 59,000 Now on the Streets
KYLE MORRIS
4 Jun 20191,633
1:46
The number of
homeless people in Los Angeles County jumped 12 percent over the last year to
nearly 59,000 living on the streets, according to a report released
Tuesday.
The newly
released data revealed that nearly three-fourths of the homeless population,
which includes 58,936 people, are sleeping in cars, tents, and other make-do
shelters.
Released by
the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to the Board of Supervisors,
the data found that the majority of homeless people were residing in the city
of Los Angeles, which saw an increase of 16 percent to 36,300.
Officials
claim the data show economic stress placed on the thousands that are on the
streets and said that they have worked to provide permanent housing for some
21,631 people over the year.
The report
revealed more than 3,800 of the total homeless population are veterans, 2,866
of which are unsheltered and “not in family units.”
The total of
unaccompanied minors who are “not included in family units” and are homeless
totaled 66, with 45 of those without shelter.
In a tweet
issued to his account last week, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted
that “California’s what happens when rights are respected.”
California’s what happens when rights are respected. When
work is rewarded. When nature’s protected. When diversity is celebrated and
free markets are fair markets.
“California’s
what happens when rights are respected,” Newsom stated. “When work is rewarded.
When nature’s protected. When diversity is celebrated and free markets are fair
markets.”
He
added, “We are nothing less than the progressive answer to a transgressive
President.”
WHERE ARE THE
SELF-ABSORBED AND INDULGENT HOLLYWEIRDERS WHEN IT COMES TO HOMELESS LEGALS?!?!
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s
second largest city, anchor baby welfare center of America and gateway for the
LA RAZA heroin cartels.
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK
AND ONE HUNDRED ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html
A dashcam video of downtown
Los Angeles on Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and
lean-tos on the sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is
reminiscent of a third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER
com
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY WORSENS BY THE DAY…. Approximates the great
depression
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html
HOMELESS AMERICA’S
HOUSING CRISIS as 40 million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal)
only one paycheck and one hundred illegals away from living in their cars.
Nolte:
Punk Legend Johnny Rotten Sounds Alarm over L.A. Homeless Epidemic
JOHN NOLTE
29 Apr 2019422
3:13
Sex Pistols
frontman Johnny Rotten isn’t afraid to buck the establishment and sound the
alarm over L.A.’s homeless epidemic, which has literally landed at his
front door.
The
63-year-old lives in Venice Beach where there has been a surge of homeless
vagrants that have vandalized his multi-million dollar home and spoiled the
beaches with “poo” and “needles.”
“A
couple of weeks ago I had a problem,” he said. “They came over the gate and put
their tent inside, right in front of the front door. It’s like . . . the
audacity. And if you complain, what are you? Oh, one of the establishment
elite? No, I’m a bloke that’s worked hard for his money and I expect to be able
to use my own front door.”
He
added that his wife Nora, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, isn’t able to cope with
bums trying to “steal the iron bars off the windows” for the scrap metal and
bricks coming through his windows.
“My
wife’s ill and she can’t cope with this. But at 2 a.m. last week, a brick
whizzed through the top floor window, the bedroom. Sorry, Mr. Policeman. I need
your help.”
“The
vagrants moved in en masse . . .
[in] tent cities. They’re all young; they’re all like 24,” he said, adding
that, “They’re aggressive, and because there’s an awful lot of them together
they’re gang-y.”
They
have also spoiled beach life: “And the heroin spikes . . . You can’t take
anyone to the beach because there’s jabs just waiting for young kids to put
their feet in — and poo all over the sand.”
This
might sound like hypocrisy coming from a punk rocker, but it’s really not. The
whole ethos of ’70s and ’80s punk rock is live and let live. No rules … at
least until you interfere with me living the life I want to live, which is
exactly what is happening to Rotten.
If
you want to know what an actual punk rock sellout looks like, I give you Henry
Rollins, the Vandals legend who endorsed …
Obamacare.
In
fact, Rotten (whose real name is John Lydon) is bucking an establishment that
treats these vagrants as sacred cows while at the same time pretending they do
not exist because their rising numbers reflect badly on the Democrat-run
strongholds that cannot manage the growing problem.
The
media and the left-wing political establishment want us to see the homeless as
victims of a cruel American capitalism that allows good people to fall through
society’s cracks. Naturally, the only solution to this problem is big
government socialism.
But
the truth is that American capitalism licked poverty decades ago. The so-called
“poor” in this country now have cable TV, central heat, air conditioning,
videogames, microwave ovens, iPhones, and struggle with over eating. The homeless
are an altogether different problem.
Certainly,
good people slip through the cracks temporarily. No question. But there are all
kinds of avenues to help those who are sincere about getting back on their
feet. The homeless epidemic is actually an epidemic of mental illness,
addiction, and tolerance.
City’s
that tolerate poopy beaches and sidewalks, hypodermic needles, and aggressive
panhandling only end up attracting even bigger problems and making the lives of
their normal citizens miserable.
Johnny
Rotten complaining about one of the most sacred of sacred cows is as punk as it
gets, and so is his support of Trump and
Brexit.
Another line
they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait
Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so
many homeless encampments hovering around?
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free
public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated,
unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has
never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans
are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law
was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these
emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal
immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is
there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at.
The Trump administration's Department of Housing and Urban
Development is finally trying to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals
prepare to enter the U.S. this year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do
it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era
regulations that allowed illegal immigrants to sign up for assistance without
having to disclose their status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing
have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all
applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other
welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification,
though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and
need to take care of our citizens,” an administration official told The
Washington Times. “Because of past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public
housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens
attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off
of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and
some illegal immigrant families are getting full rides based on just one member
being born in the U.S. The
pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S. in San Diego late
last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along with her entire
family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how heartwarming it all is.
That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The problem of course is that Americans who paid into these
programs, and the subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact
being shut out.
The fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the
virtues of illegal immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice"
for them, but the hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are
stealing from others as they take this housing benefit under legal
technicalities. That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law.
But hypocrisy is comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as
they shamelessly celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the
impoverished of the U.S. out cold.
The Trump administration is trying to have this outrage fixed
by summer. But don't imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the
media sob stories, the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
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The Trump Administration Is Cracking Down On
Illegal Aliens' Housing
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/04/17/the-trump-administration-is-cracking-down-on-illegal-aliens-housing-n2544966
Source: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to
crack down on illegal aliens who are taking advantage of public house assistance
programs, The Daily Caller reported. As it currently stands,
illegal aliens are now allowed to receive financial housing assistance. They
often skirt this rule by living with family members who are U.S. citizens and
receive their assistance from HUD.
The new rule would prevent illegal aliens from living in homes
that receive HUD funding, even if they're not the ones actually receiving the
assistance. Those who are caught with illegal aliens living in their homes will
have to comply with the new rule or move to a different non-HUD location.
To determine whether or not a household is complying with the
program, families will be screened through the "SAVE" program, which
stands for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements.
HUD estimates that there are tens of thousands of illegal aliens
who are skirting the requirement process by living in these "mixed
families." As of now, millions of Americans are on the HUD waitlist
because there isn't enough money to assist everyone.
“This proposal gets to the whole point Cher was making in her
tweet that the President retweeted. We’ve got our own people to house and we
need to take care of our citizens,” a HUD official told The Daily
Caller. “Because of past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were
able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many of our own
citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the
message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
Sanctuary
Cities Welcome Illegal Aliens with ‘Open Arms’ While 38K American Veterans
Remain Homeless
14
Apr 2019
Sanctuary
cities across the United States are responding to President Donald Trump’s
threat to bus border crossers and illegal aliens to their jurisdictions, saying
they plan to welcome all illegal immigration with “open arms” despite soaring
homelessness problems.
Last
week, Trump threatened to bus
border crossers and illegal aliens into sanctuary cities and states, like
California and New York City, if the country’s asylum laws were not changed.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday confirmed that
the White House is considering the plan.
“The
USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants
transferred to Sanctuary Cities,” Trump posted on Twitter over the weekend. “We
hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by
the State of California, which is well known or it’s poor management & high
taxes!”
Just out: The USA has the absolute legal
right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities.
We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by
the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high
taxes!
Sanctuary
city mayors like Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf have responded to
Trump’s threat by saying they plan to welcome any and all illegal aliens to
their cities — even those cities that are struggling with rising homelessness.
Currently, there are nearly 38,000 homeless American
veterans across the country.
“Oakland
welcomes all, no matter where you came from or how you got here,” Schaaf wrote
on Twitter.
As
of 2017, there were more than 2,700 Oakland residents who
were homeless — an increase of 25 percent when compared to two years before. In
all of Alameda County, there are about 5,630 homeless residents. In
all of California, there are nearly 130,000 homeless
residents, including nearly 11,000 homeless American Veterans.
Sanctuary
city New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio originally blasted Trump for the
plan, claiming the president was using illegal aliens as “chess pieces,” but he
then advocated for giving illegal aliens driver’s licenses in order to attract
more illegal aliens to the state.
“Undocumented
immigrants are our neighbors and part of the backbone of our economy,” de
Blasio wrote online. “It’s mind-boggling that they aren’t allowed to have
driver’s licenses in New York State.”
New
York City homelessness has reached the highest levels since the 1930s when the
country struggled through the Great Depression. Today, there are
nearly 64,000 homeless residents in
New York City, including more than 15,000 homeless families with almost 23,000
homeless children. This is the largest metro area homeless population in
the country. There are more than 1,200 homeless American veterans living in New
York state.
In interviews with
the Daily Beast, sanctuary
city mayors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; and Cambridge,
Massachusetts, said their jurisdictions would be happy to welcome all illegal
aliens.
Philadelphia,
Chicago, and Cambridge have a combined homeless population of at least 12,000
residents. In the state of Massachusetts, alone, there are now more than 20,000homeless residents, including
almost 1,000 homeless American veterans.
“The
city would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as we have embraced our
immigrant communities for decades,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said.
“As
a welcoming city, we would welcome these migrants with open arms, just as we
welcomed Syrian refugees, just as we welcomed Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane
Maria and just as we welcome Rohingya refugees fleeing genocide in Myanmar,”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.
Burlington,
Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger said in a statement that
illegal aliens were vital to making his city “more prosperous” and “more
diverse.”
“We
know from decades of experience that newcomers to Burlington will make us more
prosperous, more diverse and stronger, just as generations of past immigrants
have driven our past growth and success,” Weinberger said.
In
total, there are more than 550,000 American residents who are homeless
nationwide. Meanwhile, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million illegal and legal
immigrants every year — the overwhelming majority of which are low skilled
workers who compete for jobs against America’s poor, working, and middle class.
The Washington, DC-imposed mass immigration policy drives housing costs up for
Americans, economists have found.
Cher: Los Angeles ‘Can’t Take Care
of Its Own, How Can It Take Care of’ More Immigrants
AP
Photo/Carolyn Kaster
JOHN BINDER
14
Apr 201952,590
2:23
Pop icon Cher said Sunday that Los
Angeles, California, “can’t take care of its own” residents, much less newly
arrived illegal and legal immigrants.
Cher said
she failed to understand how the city of Los Angeles in the sanctuary state of
California could afford to admit and take care of any more immigrants when city
officials have failed to care for homeless, veterans, and poverty-stricken
Americans.
“I Understand Helping
struggling Immigrants,but MY CITY (Los Angeles) ISNT TAKING CARE OF ITS
OWN.WHAT ABOUT THE 50,000+Citizens WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS.PPL WHO LIVE BELOW
POVERTY LINE,& HUNGRY? If My State Can’t Take Care of Its Own(Many Are
VETS)How Can it Take Care Of More,” Cher said.
I Understand Helping struggling Immigrants,but MY CITY
(Los Angeles) ISNT TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN.WHAT ABOUT THE 50,000+ Citizens
WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS.PPL WHO LIVE BELOW POVERTY LINE,& HUNGRY? If My
State Can’t Take Care of Its Own(Many Are VETS)How Can it Take Care Of More
The post
came after President Trump threatened to bus
border crossers and illegal aliens into sanctuary cities and states, like
California, if the country’s asylum laws were not changed. White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that
the White House is considering the plan.
In
response, Democrat mayors across
the country — like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Oakland, California
Mayor Libby Schaaf — have
welcomed bringing illegal aliens and border crossers to their cities.
While
left-wing mayors say they will continue to admit any and all illegal and legal
immigrants, Los Angeles is home to the second largest homeless
population in the country, second to only New York City. About 50,000 residents
of Los Angeles are homeless and about 7.5 percent of California’s American
Veteran population is homeless.
As the city
remains crippled by homelessness and skyrocketing housing costs, Los Angeles
metro area is also home to the second largest illegal alien population — with
nearly a million illegal aliens living in the region, according to Pew
Research Center.
Last
year, economists at Deakin University found that immigration — both
illegal and legal — drives up housing prices on average, with the researchers
writing “we find no evidence that house prices sink as a result of
immigration.”
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION
MAP OF THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN
232 COUNTIES
"La
Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have
been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are
destined to transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates
that there are over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born
every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer
to 300,000 (dated). La
Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year."
HOUSING CRISIS? HERE ARE THE NEW
NUMBERS:
“Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal
and illegal immigrants every year, with more than 70 percent coming to the
country through the process known as “chain migration” whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
U.S. In the next 20 years, the current U.S. legal immigration system is on
track to import roughly 15
million new
LA City
Council May Operate Tent Encampments for 34,000 Homeless
Jae C. Hong / Associated
Press
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week
to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments
to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.
The
Los Angeles City Council on March 23 declared a homeless crisis by
requesting the Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority implement an
Emergency Response to Homelessness Plan that would provide an alternative to
encampments for 100 percent of the Los Angeles homeless population by December
31, 2018.
The
Los Angeles Housing Authority recently reported that of the 34,189
homeless identified in the 2017 federally mandated count, 25,237 or 76 percent,
were unsheltered and living on sidewalks, cars, tents, or mobile homes.
The
report was released 16 months after homeless advocates convinced city voters
they could permanently solve homeless by passing Measure HHH ballot initiative,
which raised property taxes by $9.64 per $100,000 of assessed valuation to fund
a $1.2 billion bond.
Los
Angeles County then convinced voters in March 2017 to pass Measure H to provide
$350 million per year worth of homeless mental health and addiction services
through a ¼ percent increased sales tax up to
10 percent in a number of L.A. County cities.
Both
measures only achieved the 2/3 majority required to pass because of a
miraculous surge from absentee voters in central and south LA districts that supported
higher taxes.
LA
City Council members also recently voted to build 222 units of permanent
supportive homeless housing in each of the 15 LA City Council districts by
2020. The first 122 of the 3,330 approved homeless units broke ground in East
Hollywood in November.
But
the federal 2017 City of Los Angeles homeless count found the population had spiked by
5,698, or about 20 percent, since 2016. That means despite raising $1.2 billion
in taxes, the net number of homeless after the new construction has already
increased by 2,368.
Last
month, the city council voted unanimously to start housing 60 homeless people in trailers on a
city-owned downtown lot. But despite the city paying $2 million for trailers
equipped with bathrooms and showers, and funding allocating another $1 million
a year to operate the downtown trailer park, CBS News reported that local restaurant
owners say transients already hurt their business, and the trailers will make
the situation worse.
The
City of Los Angeles told voters it could solve the homeless problem with the
HHH tax increase and $1.2 billion. But it cost Orange County $780,000 per month
temporarily to house 700 homeless evicted from the Santa Ana River in 400 motel
rooms. Given the enormous scale of L.A.’s homeless problem, that would cost the
city about $49.2 million a month.
Orange
County Supervisors voted on March 19 to set up tent cities on county parcels
next to public parks in Irvine, Huntington, and Laguna Niguel. All 3 cities are
threatening to file lawsuits to prevent the Orange County from dumping its
problem on local communities.
None
of the 15 Los Angeles Districts wants the risk exposure to infectious diseases
that come with a homeless encampment. Breitbart News reported that a hepatitis A
outbreak began among San Diego’s homeless population and has spread statewide.
The latest California Public Health report found 703 new cases, 460
hospitalizations, and 21 deaths.
Rising Homelessness Among
Working Californians… a state that employs millions using stolen social
security numbers and hands out tens of BILLIONS in social services and welfare!
BE HONEST! WHEN HAVE YOU EVER
HEARD EVEN ONE OF THESE PRO-AMNESTY AND OPEN BORDERS POLITICIANS EVEN MENTION
THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICA’S MILLION HOMELESS LEGALS???
In
California, the rising number of homeless people are not who you may think they
are. The Los Angeles Times editorial board
recently drove home that point by personalizing what
it means to be homeless in the United States' second-most populous city in
2018.
Many
people think of homelessness as a problem of substance abusers and mentally ill
people, of chronic skid row street-dwellers pushing shopping carts. But
increasingly, the crisis in Los Angeles today is about a less visible (but more
numerous) group of “economically homeless” people. These are people who have
been driven onto the streets or into shelters by hard times, bad luck and
California’s irresponsible failure to address its own housing needs.
Consider
Nadia, whose story has become typical. When she decided she had to end her
abusive marriage, she knew it would be hard to find an affordable place to live
with her three young children. With her husband, she had paid $2,000 a month
for a three-bedroom condo in the San Fernando Valley, but prices were rising
rapidly, and now two-bedroom apartments in the area were going for $2,400 — an
impossible rent for a single parent who worked part time at Magic Mountain.
Nadia
and her children are among the economically homeless — men, women and, often
enough, families, who find themselves without a place to live because of some
kind of setback or immediate crisis: a divorce, a short-term illness, a loss of
a job, an eviction. In many cities across the nation, these are not necessarily
problems that would plunge a person into homelessness. But here they can. Why?
Because of the shockingly high cost of housing in Los Angeles.
Perhaps
the most important thing that anyone should take away from Times' editors' take
on Nadia's situation is that she is functional adult who is more than capable
of improving her lot. Later in the editorial, the LA Times' editors disclose
that she was able to get her family into a homeless shelter and that she has
been able to secure a full time job doing data entry at an insurance company,
where only a few of her co-workers know of her homeless status.
Nadia
is far from alone in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile,
north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is one of the wealthiest cities in
California. There, the New Beginnings counseling center has made arrangements to
allow up to 150 Californians who are either living in their cars or in recreational vehiclesto
be able to park them overnight in the otherwise empty parking lots of local
churches and government offices.
The
clients can park after 7 p.m., but have to clear out as early as 6 a.m. The
benefit is that the vehicles are no longer parked on city streets, which riles
some residents and merchants. And because the lots are monitored by New
Beginnings, the clients, who all go through a screening process, can at least
feel safe while they sleep.
Santiago
Geronimo works in the kitchen of a high-end Santa Barbara restaurant and until
recently, he, his girlfriend and her son Luis lived in a two-bedroom apartment
shared by four adults and three kids. But the girlfriend, Luisa Ramirez, lost
her retail clerk job because of a back injury, and they've lived in a Ford
Explorer since September. Their new home is a church parking lot on the Goleta
border.
There is a common element
among many of California's employed homeless, in that many were living in
apartments or houses until one of their household's members experienced a job
loss. Beyond that, many were employed with relatively good incomes until they
lost their jobs, where they soon found that their available employment options
were limited to low-paying jobs that weren't enough to pay their rents or
mortgages.
Then the evictions came,
and they became homeless. All across the state.
Steve
Lopez, a LA Times columnist, asked a good question about why California's
working population doesn't move to where housing is cheaper:
You might ask why people of lesser means
don't head to less expensive areas than Santa Barbara — it's a fair question,
and I've written about people who eventually did make such a move. In Santa
Barbara, the answers I got were the same ones I've heard elsewhere in coastal
California. People hold open the option of leaving, but many are connected to
specific places by history, family and employment connections, and they're not
quite ready to give up on a turnaround, move to a place they don't know, and
start over from scratch.
Besides that, local economies rely on
those of lesser means, so where are they supposed to live?
"You know," said Phil,
"there's a huge Hispanic population that does all the damn work around
here. Every restaurant you go into, you can watch them slaving away. And
they're taking care of people's gardens and everything else, and they wind up
with eight or 10 people living in a one-bedroom place."
Until
that doesn't work, as Santiago Geronimo found out.
The
truth is that many Californians have tried to move to greener pastures, as many
have from California's economically-distressed Central Valley, where that
region's oil industry has yet to recover from
the decline of oil prices from July 2014 through February 2016. According to
Moody's, for every job lost in the oil and gas industry, an additional 3.43 jobs may be lost in other sectors, creating a negative deficit that
other, more strongly growing sectors of the economy must be in overdrive to
overcome, just to get to the point where any positive economic growth may be
recorded. California's Central Valley lost thousands of
oil and gas industry jobs during the downturn, where some of the impact of
those losses are also being felt in other communities throughout
the state's interior.
In
Bakersfield, in Kern County, where many of the state's oil and gas industry
jobs are centered, the city's homeless shelters were forced to turn away Californians seeking shelter earlier this year
because they ran out of space to accommodate them during a short cold snap,
when having to sleep outdoors became too intolerable.
Some of
the economically displaced from California's Central Valley have migrated to
where jobs are available in the state's thriving metropolises, such as San
Francisco and Los Angeles, where they've run into the same situation of
excessively high rents. Consequently, they've joined the ranks of the employed
homeless.
Others
are fleeing the
state altogether, paradoxically seeking to escape the
"prosperity" of the state's coastal cities, with the housing shortage-driven soaring rents and declining quality of life in those cities becoming a primary motivation for
their flight.
All
these things together would appear to have set California on a very different
course than the rest of the United States. At the very least, where the trends
for homelessness are concerned.
For his
part, the state's governor, Jerry Brown, refused to declare the
state's homelessness crisis to be an emergency in 2016, which denied the
state's counties and cities any additional resources to combat homelessness.
The state's data for homeless in 2017 shows the results of that decision, where
at the national level, if not for California, the trend for homelessness in the
U.S. would have improved.
Census Bureau:
Immigration Driving Half of
U.S. Population Growth
JOHN BINDER
2:43
Immigration to the United States is now driving
nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth
rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.
The latest Census Bureau estimates on the U.S. population reveal that
about 48.5 percent of all population growth is driven by the country’s mass
illegal and legal immigration policy, where more than 1.5 million foreign
nationals are admitted to the country every year.
(Axios)
Axios analysis by Stef Knight details the
growing share to which immigration is increasingly driving population growth
across the U.S. Since 2011, for example, the level to which immigration has
accounted for overall population growth has increased more than 13 percent.
According to the Wall Street Journal analysis, about nine
percent of U.S. counties are growing solely because of immigration.
This concludes that about nine percent of counties have regional birth rates
that do not exceed the annual number of deaths in the area.
Similarly, the Wall
Street Journal notes, more than half of all population growth
in states like Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Kansas, and Michigan, among others, is
because of immigration.
Though pundits have claimed that the country’s
admittance of 1.2 million legal immigrants a year is necessary to increase
birth rates, researchers have found that the growth of the immigrant population
has little impact on birth rates.
Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research
Steven Camarota discovered in his latest study this year that
“immigrant fertility has only a small impact on the nation’s overall birth
rate,” citing that immigrants in the U.S. raise the nation’s birth rate for all
women by two births per 1,000 women.
“Immigration has a minor impact because the difference
between immigrant and native fertility is too small to significantly change the
nation’s overall birth rate,” Camarota noted in the study.
At current legal immigration levels, the U.S.
population is set to hit an unprecedented 404
million residents by 2060 — including a foreign-
born population of 69 million.
population is set to hit an unprecedented 404
million residents by 2060 — including a foreign-
born population of 69 million.
The U.S. does not have to rapidly increase its total
resident population and foreign-born population,
as legal immigration moratoriums have
been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life.
Halting all immigration to the country would
stabilize the population to a comfortable 329
million residents in the next four decades.
resident population and foreign-born population,
as legal immigration moratoriums have
been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life.
Halting all immigration to the country would
stabilize the population to a comfortable 329
million residents in the next four decades.
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