CALIFORNIA
IS A STATE WITH 10 MILLION ILLEGALS -
NOW DO THE MATH ON THE HOUSING CRISIS AND HOMELESSNESS
Californians
cite homelessness as top concern for first time ever, survey finds
By BEN CHRISTOPHER | CALmatters
PUBLISHED: October 7, 2019
Californians are increasingly pessimistic about the future of
the state and are more worried about housing and homelessness than ever before.
And at least according to one major poll, they’re beginning
to take it out on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic state Legislature.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the Henry Robinson
Multi-Service Center in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Newsom
announced the formation of the Homeless & Supportive Housing Advisory Task
Force and has pledged $1 billion of the state budget to fight homelessness.
(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
In new survey results released today, the Public Policy
Institute of California found that more likely voters now disapprove of
Newsom’s job performance than approve.
But the new round of numbers are in sharp contrast to a
survey released last week by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies,
which found likely voters approving of Newsom by a margin of nearly 20
percentage points.
The PPIC poll also found that 1 in 4 Californians now point
to housing and homelessness as the “most important issue facing people in
California today.” Of the 1,700 adults surveyed, 15% listed “homelessness” as a
top concern and 11% named housing.
Another 15% said “jobs and the economy.”
While jobs are a perennial concern for Californians, this is
the first time the state’s homeless crisis was a top source of public angst,
said PPIC president Mark Baldassare.
“We started polling in 1998. It’s never been tied for number
one,” he said. “Democrats, Republicans, independents all had it in the first
tier of concern.”
Those concerns are part of a broader feeling of “political
and economic malaise” across the state, he said.
Roughly half of the respondents said that the state is headed
in the “wrong direction.” Likely voters were even more pessimistic, with 54%
offering a grim prognosis of the state’s future, including 60% of political
independents.
And that seems to have translated into lower approval ratings
for the state’s elected lawmakers.
Nearly a year into his first term, the poll found that 44% of
likely voters disapprove of the governor. That’s the first time the survey has
found more voters with a negative opinion of the state’s governor than a
positive view since 2012.
The survey had other bad news for state lawmakers, one of
whom happens to be running for president. An outright majority of likely voters
(51%) said that they disapprove of the state Legislature and 46% disapprove of
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.
residential support for California’s junior senator fell to
just 8% among Democratic-leaning voters statewide — well behind Elizabeth
Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who were in an effective three-way tie
for first place.
The poll ought to give the new governor a bit of public
opinion whiplash.
On Monday, the Berkeley IGS poll reported that 60% of
registered voters either strongly or somewhat approve of the governor’s job
performance versus 39% who do not.
The much higher approval rate in the Berkeley survey is
likely due to the fact that while the Public Policy Institute’s phone survey
allows respondents to register no opinion, Berkeley’s online poll does not.
Even the Berkeley survey offered a mixed bag for the governor
when you scratch beneath the surface: 42% of respondents said that they only
“somewhat approve” of the governor.
“A lot of his approval is mild,” said Mark DiCamillo, who
runs Berkeley’s poll. “It’s sort of like, ‘He’s okay.’ ‘I guess so.’”
There are other methodological differences between the two
surveys, though both are respected and have established track records for
accuracy. Even if well-designed and administered, individual polls may
occasionally produce out-of-whack estimates just by random chance.
Today’s new polling also offers mixed news for supporters of
some of the ballot measures likely to be on the 2020 ballots.
Asked about a $15 billion bond that would fund public school
infrastructure construction and upkeep, 54% of likely voters in the Public
Policy Institute survey said that they would vote for it. Supporters are still
waiting for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill that would place the measure on the
March ballot.
But likely voters are evenly divided (47% to 45%) on a
proposal, often referred to as “split roll,” that would raise property taxes on
large companies, resetting rates based on the current market prices of land and
buildings. That idea is opposed by all of the state’s major business groups.
“Split roll clearly being under 50% is a difficult place to
start, especially knowing that there is a ‘no’ side to that ballot initiative
that is not shy about spending millions of dollars,” said Baldassare.
Democrats turning California into
a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole
without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love for trees, at least 800,000 Californians
will be without power for several days. Instead of properly managing
California forests to reduce the chances of big fires, Democrats are saying
Californians have to go without lights, refrigerators, and
air-conditioning. Democrats could also avoid this by not making the
power company financially liable for all forest fire damages, but since
PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the Democrats couldn't care less
about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame climate change and the infrastructure, the
reality is that neither of those has caused any significant changes in the last
ten years — but now, suddenly, due to Democrat policies, Californians have to
start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run California also refuse to build more water
storage capacity even though the state's population has dramatically increased,
ensuring that water has to be rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning California into a third-world country
economically. The income inequality between the über-rich Silicon
Valley workers and the rest of Californians is huge, just like in third-world
countries, while the elites live in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a great job manufacturing poverty and
homelessness even as they fail to instill hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per capita and three times more poor per
capita than the rest of America. Half the homeless in America are in
California, even though California has only 12% of the U.S.
population. Also, blacks are six times more prevalent in the San Francisco homeless population than they
are in California in general.
The homeless explosion has brought the return of third-world
diseases like typhus to California — not to mention streets littered with human
feces.
Democrats are trying to keep people from having cars, just like
the people of the Third World. After all, a car gives people the
freedom to move, and freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it
limits the power the government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor, transferred
millions of dollars that the voters had been ensured would go to improve the
state's failing road infrastructure to a fund designed to convince Californians
to give up their cars.
Democrats are also working to make cars unaffordable for any but
the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for gasoline than the rest of
America. That's $21 more for a tank of gasoline. Facebook
employees won't notice it, but the poor in California who can't afford to live
near their jobs are paying through the teeth.
Like all third-world tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they
can to eliminate democracy in California.
The jungle primary, where the top two candidates in the primaries
go against each other, has resulted in many races where two Democrats are
running against each other, giving voters who don't agree with the Democrats'
failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't
vote don't vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing
everything possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens
go pick up their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote
unless they say they're not citizens.
California is also trying to end democracy by keeping the
Republican presidential candidate off the ballot. Democrats passed
an unconstitutional law to keep any candidate who didn't release his tax
returns off the ballot solely to keep Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats are going after freedom of the
press. An undercover journalist revealed that Planned Parenthood was
selling aborted baby parts. Instead of investigating that illegal
practice, Democrat Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us California is the future if they get
elected. That means that poverty, homelessness, the end of
democracy, and a press that reports only what Democrats want heard are what
Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely wealthy Google employee, California is
Heaven. If you're not, it's becoming more and more like Hell.
You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations
about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.
“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 as the 33.4 billion Mexicans
abroad sent back last 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.
Census Bureau:
Immigration Driving Half of
U.S. Population Growth
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.
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.
OF COURSE,
THEY REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY HAVE JUMPED OUR BORDERS!
“Between 2005 and 2017, chain
migration, alone, brought nearly 10 million foreign nationals to the U.S.”
DOJ: Federal Arrests of Foreigners More than Tripled in Last 20 Years
DOJ: Federal Arrests of Foreigners More Than
Tripled in Last 20 Years
As Breitbart News reported, though non-U.S.
citizens represent just seven percent of the total U.S. population, they
accounted for 15 percent of all federal arrests and 15 percent of all
prosecutions for non-immigration related crimes in 2018. This indicates that
non-U.S. citizens were about 2.3 times as likely to be arrested or prosecuted
for non-immigration related crimes.
For non-immigration offenses, the total of federal arrests for
non-U.S. citizens between 1998 and 2018 increased nearly eight percent, and
between 2017 and 2018 rose almost ten percent.
Non-U.S. citizens were most likely to be prosecuted for illegal
re-entry, that is illegal aliens who have been previously deported, drugs,
fraud, alien smuggling, and misuse of visas.
A 2018 Government Accountability
Office (GAO) report discovered nearly all
illegal and legal immigrants in U.S. federal prisons are from Mexico, Honduras,
El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Guatemala.
Between 2010 and 2015, the average annual cost to incarcerate
criminal illegal and legal immigrants slightly decreased — as the criminal
alien population slightly decreased as well — from $1.56 billion to about $1.42
billion. That cost is paid for by American taxpayers who are forced to offset
the costs of mass immigration to the country.
Every year, the U.S. admits more
than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the overwhelming majority arriving
through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly
naturalized are able to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
country. Between 2005 and 2017, chain migration, alone,
brought nearly 10 million foreign nationals to the U.S.
Ben
Carson Warns of Potential ‘Epidemic’ Among Homeless in California Cities
Joel Pollak
/ Breitbart News
18 Sep 2019173
2:50
LOS ANGELES, California — Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Ben Carson warned that conditions among homeless people
in many California cities were so bad they could “foster an epidemic, if we’re
not careful.”
Last year, Los Angeles suffered a
typhus outbreak that spread from the homeless population to City Hall. Some,
including Dr. Drew Pinsky, are now warning that L.A. could see an outbreak of bubonic plague, which
is endemic.
The secretary focused his remarks on
partnerships between the federal, state, and local governments, as well as the
private sector, in urging Americans to cooperate to find housing solutions for
those who had fallen on hard times.
But Carson also address the ongoing
homeless crisis in California — a crisis that has led President Donald Trump,
who is visiting the state, to suggest emergency federal intervention, overriding state and local
government authority.
The president could invoke
the National Emergencies Act of 1976 and the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988 to intervene. Federal
officials reportedly visited the state last week to look at facilities that could be
used to house homeless people after they had been relocated from the center of
the city.
“My preference, obviously, is to
work with the state,” Carson said. “But what we’re concerned about are the
conditions. And these are conditions that … can foster an epidemic, if we’re
not careful. And then, after that occurs, what will everybody be saying? How
come you guys didn’t do anything? You knew all this was going on?”
Carson also addressed questions
about the eviction of illegal aliens from public housing, telling reporters
that the law not only barred illegal aliens from living in public housing, but
those giving shelter to illegal aliens. The only solution, he said, was an act
of Congress, which could change the law with “comprehensive immigration
reform.”
Update: Secretary Carson also rejected requests for additional federal funds to the state,
arguing that state and local authorities had to revise zoning regulations that
discouraged the building of additional affordable housing units.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a
J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak
Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside
Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
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