The 50
most miserable cities in America
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East side of Detroit, Michigan.
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Ommanney / Getty
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The
most miserable city in the US is Gary, Indiana.
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The
state with the most miserable cities is California with 10.
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New
Jersey is close behind with nine, and Florida comes in third with six.
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These
cities have things in common — few opportunities, devastation from natural disasters,
high crime and addiction rates, and often many abandoned houses.
Not the worst, just the most
miserable.
We've identified the 50 most
miserable cities in the US, using census data from 1,000 cities across the
country, taking into consideration population change (because if people are
leaving it's usually for a good reason), the percentage of people working,
median household incomes, the percentage of people without healthcare, median
commute times, and the number of people living in poverty.
Often, these cities have been
devastated by natural disasters. They've had to deal with blight, and with high
crime rates. Economies have struggled after industry has collapsed. These
cities also tend to have high rates of addiction.
The state with the most miserable
cities was California, with 10 in the top 50. New Jersey was second with nine,
and Florida had six.
Here are the 50 most miserable cities in the US, based on US census data.
50. Lancaster, California
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49. St Louis, Missouri
Colter
Peterson / St Louis Post-Dispatch / TNS / Getty
St. Louis has almost 303,000
people, but it lost 5% between 2010 and 2018. Sixty-five percent of people work
and one quarter are living in poverty.
48. Pasadena, Texas
Chris
Graythen / Getty
Pasadena has 153,000 people, 65%
of whom are working, and one-fifth live in poverty. While the median income is
$50,207, nearly 29% of people don't have health insurance.
Mostly working-class, the city is based near petrochemical plants, and is
known for its race issues. It used to be home to the Texas headquarters of the Ku Klux
Klan. Now, it's divided. In the north it's primarily made up of Latino people
and to the south it's mostly white people.
47. Macon-Bibb County, Georgia
Grant
Blankenship / Macon Telegraph / MCT / Getty
Macon-Bibb County has 153,000
people, but it lost 1.7% of its population between 2010 and 2018. Fifty-six
percent are working, and 26% live in poverty.
One of Macon-Bibb County's
biggest problems is blight. Across the city there are about 3,700 unoccupied buildings, including dilapidated homes and overgrown yards.
46. Danville, Virginia
Michael
Williamson / The Washington Post / Getty
Danville has 40,000 people, but
its population fell by 5.5% between 2010 and 2018. Fifty-five percent of people
are working and 21% live in poverty.
It used to be one of the richest cities in the Piedmont
area. But it's struggled since its
tobacco and textile mills shut down. However, the city is fighting for a
comeback. It's set up solar farms, and its downtown is in the midst of a rehabilitation to turn abandoned warehouses into mixed-use developments.
45. Shreveport, Louisiana
Deputy
Josh Cagle / Bossier Sheriff's Office / Handout / Reuters
Shreveport has about 189,000
people, and lost nearly 6% of its population between 2010 and 2018. Fifty-eight
percent of people work, and 26% are living in poverty.
44. Hemet, California
Gina
Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times / Getty
Hemet has a population of 85,000
people and between 2010 and 2018, it grew by 8.5%. However, it's struggled
since the 2008 recession. Twenty-three percent of people live in poverty, and
crime rates are high. In 2016, 623 cars were stolen, 170 robberies were
reported, and police logged 398 aggravated assaults — the most this century.
43. Mansfield, Ohio
Eric
Thayer / Reuters
Mansfield has 46,000 residents,
but lost 2.7% between 2010 and 2018. Forty-eight percent of people are working,
and 24% are living in poverty.
It used to have lots of
industrial work, with people making things like steel, machinery, and stoves,
but that dried up in the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, in 2010, a GM factory closed its doors, leading to more job losses. It's also had a surge in crime,
and between 2012 and 2017, violent crimes rose by 37%.
42. San Bernardino, California
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Photo/Reed Saxon
Of San Bernardino's 216,000
residents, 57% are employed, and 30% live in poverty.
It's 60 miles east of Los
Angeles, and has an interesting history. It's where McDonalds began, as well as the Hells Angels
motorcycle gang. Along with a tough recession, it had a steel plant and an Air
Force base close down, meaning even fewer jobs.
41. Compton, California
Mario
Anzuoni / Reuters
Compton has 96,000 people, 40% of
whom aren't working, and 23% live in poverty.
40. Montebello, California
Frederick
J. Brown / AFP / Getty
Of Montebello's 62,632 people,
60% are working, and 14% live in poverty. The average commute time is 33
minutes, and 19% of people don't have health insurance.
39. Harlingen, Texas
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Harlingen has 65,000 residents;
56% are working, and 30% live in poverty.
38. Reading, Pennsylvania
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Williamson / The Washington Post / Getty
Reading has 88,495 residents,
where almost 62% of people are working, and 36% live in poverty. In 2011, The
New York Times said it was the poorest city in the US.
37. Hallandale Beach, Florida
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Hallandale Beach has about 40,000
people, 60% of whom are working; 20% live in poverty. More than 29% of people
are without health insurance.
Halfway between Miami beach and
Fort Lauderdale, it's been called a "once scruffy beach town," by
the Wall Street Journal. It also has plenty of strip clubs and has been nicknamed
"Hound-ale Beach."
36. Palmdale, California
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Cusack / Los Angeles Times / Getty
Palmdale has 156,667 people — 59%
are in the workforce, and 19% live in poverty.
35. Anderson, Indiana
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Anderson has 55,000 residents,
but lost 2% between 2010 and 2018. Fifty-six percent of people are employed,
and one-quarter live in poverty.
34. Fort Pierce, Florida
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S. Williamson / The Washington Post / Getty
Fort Pierce has 46,000 people,
and grew by almost 10% between 2010 and 2018. Just over half of people there
are employed, and almost 36% of people in poverty.
33. North Miami Beach, Florida
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North Miami Beach has almost
46,000 people; 65% are working, and just under 20% are living in poverty. But
32% of residents don't have healthcare, and the average commute time is 31
minutes.
32. Jackson, Mississippi
Jonathon
Bachman / Reuters
Jackson has almost 165,000
residents, but between 2010 and 2018 it lost more than 5% of its population.
Sixty-two percent of the population is working, and almost 29% live in poverty.
31. Saginaw, Michigan
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Saginaw has 48,000 people, and
between 2010 and 2018 it lost 6% of its population. Fifty-five percent of
people are working and nearly 34% are living in poverty.
Like many other cities on this
list, it used to have a lot of manufacturing jobs — at one point around 25,000 with
General Motors. But they didn't last.
Some locals reportedly refer to
the city as "sag-nasty" because of its issues with crime. In May 2019, violent crime had fallen in the city, with 16 shootings to date, compared to 30 at
that point in 2018.
30. Plainfield, New Jersey
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Plainfield has 50,693 people, 70%
of whom are working, and one-fifth of whom live in poverty. Nearly one-third
are without health insurance, and the median commute time is 31 minutes.
It used to be a violent city — in
1990 there were 719 violent crimes, but since then things have improved, although in 2016 there
were 12 murders.
29. West New York, New Jersey
Eduardo
Munoz / Reuters
West New York has nearly 53,000
people, and it grew by 6.6% between 2010 and 2018. Almost 70% are working, and
22% are living in poverty.
Cleanliness and parking are meant to be two of the biggest issues for its new
mayor. The median commute time is 37 minutes.
28. Miami Gardens, Florida
Joe
Skipper / Reuters
Miami Gardens has 113,000 people
— 60% are working, while about 22% live in poverty.
Another issue in the area is the
cost of water. Because it comes from a plant owned by the City of North Miami
Beach, the cost of living is a little bit higher. In March, the city was suing
to fight the extra 25% surcharge.
27. Cleveland, Ohio
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Lowy / Getty
26. Youngstown, Ohio
Brian
Snyder / Reuters
Youngstown has about 65,000
people, and lost 3% of its population between 2010 and 2018. Just over half of
its population is working and nearly 37% of people live in poverty.
25. North Miami, Florida
Carlo
Allegri / Reuters
North Miami has about 63,000
people, 65% of whom are working, while 23% in poverty.
24. Huntington, West Virginia
Lexi
Browning / Reuters
Huntington has 46,000 people, and
it lost 6.4% of its population between 2010 and 2018. Just over half are
working, and about a third live in poverty.
23. Hammond, Indiana
Scott
Olson / Getty
Hammond has about 76,000 people,
and its population fell by 6.2% between 2010 and 2018, Sixty-one
percent of people are in the labor force, and 22% live in poverty.
22. El Monte, California
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El Monte has 115,000 residents;
58% of its population is working, and 22% live in poverty. The average commute
time is a half hour.
The city, which is located near
two freeways and close to Los Angeles, had a lot of revenue coming in from car
dealerships, but struggled during the recession, when three dealerships closed, and the city's tax revenue
fell. It's continued to have issues with finances, and the city is now divided
over the future of marijuana production — one large facility in particular.
21. Lynwood, California
Lawrence
K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / Getty
Lynwood has 70,500 residents —
60% work and 23% are impoverished. It was once called "the best place to
live best." But things didn't stay that way.
The construction of Interstate
105, which cut right through the city, caused many to leave their homes, and 1,000 homes and
businesses to be knocked down. More recently, officials have struggled to manage the city's finances, resulting in losses that could have been used to help the
city.
20. Huntsville, Texas
Richard
Carson / Reuters
Huntsville has 41,500 residents;
39% of its people are working, and almost 35% live in poverty. However, the low
employment is in part because those living in prisons are counted in the city's
population.
19. Paterson, New Jersey
Eric Thayer
/ Reuters
Paterson has 145,000 residents,
57.5% of its population is working, and 29% live in poverty.
18. Albany, Georgia
Tami
Chappell / Reuters
Nicknamed "the good life
city," Albany has 75,000 people, although its population fell by almost 3%
between 2010 and 2018. Nearly 58% of the population is working, and a third
live in poverty.
17. Trenton, New Jersey
Eduardo
Munoz / Reuters
Trenton has a population of
84,000. Almost 60% of people are working, and 27% are living in poverty.
16. Cicero, Illinois
Scott
Olson / Getty
Cicero has 81,500 residents, but
that fell by 3% between 2010 and 2018. Two-thirds of people are working and
just under 20% live in poverty. The median commute time is 31 minutes.
15. Union City, New Jersey
Eduardo
Munoz / Reuters
Union City has 68,500 residents,
almost 70% are working, while 23% live in poverty. The average commute time is
33 minutes long.
The city is known by some as
"Havana on the Hudson," due to 80% of its residents identifying as
Hispanic, many of whom fled from Cuba. It's only 1.28 square miles, making it
one of the most densely populated areas in
the US.
14. Bell Gardens, California
Allen
J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty
Bell Gardens has 42,300
residents; 63% of people working, and almost 30% are living in poverty.
13. Hialeah, Florida
C. M.
Guerrero / Miami Herald / TNS / Getty
Hialeah has 239,000 residents —
56% of whom are working, while almost 26% live in poverty. Nearly 31% don't
have health insurance.
12. Brownsville, Texas
Sergio
Flores / AFP / Getty
Brownsville has 183,000 residents,
56% of people are working, and more than 31% of people are living in poverty.
More than 35% don't have health insurance.
11. New Brunswick, New Jersey
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10. Huntington Park, California
Allen
J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty
Huntington Park, the 10th most
miserable city in the US, has 58,000 residents, 63% of people are working, and
28% of people live in poverty. The median commute time is 31 minutes.
9. Warren, Ohio
Alan
Freed / Reuters
Warren has 38,000 residents, and
its population fell by 7.7% between 2010 and 2018. About half of people are
working, and two-thirds live in poverty.
8. Camden, New Jersey
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Platt / Getty
Camden has 74,000 residents, and
its population fell by 4% between 2010 and 2018. Nearly 57% of people are in
the work force, and 37% live in poverty. The average household income is
$26,105 — the lowest on this list.
It used to be a manufacturing
city, but that fell to pieces between the 1950s and 1970s. It's had a high crime rate and been known as one of the most
dangerous cities in the country, but it is improving. In 2017, there were 22
murders, which was the lowest number since 1987, thanks in part to new police procedures.
7. Flint, Michigan
Rebecca
Cook / Reuters
Flint has 96,000 residents, and
it's fallen by 6% between 2010 and 2018. Just over half of people are working,
and 41% of people are living in poverty — the highest on this list.
6. Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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Pine Bluff has 42,000 residents,
and between 2010 and 2018, it lost nearly 14% of its population — the biggest
loss on this list. Fifty-two percent of people are working, and 30% are living
in poverty.
5. Newark, New Jersey
Kathy
Willens/AP Photo
Newark has 282,000 residents, 62%
are working, and 28% are living in poverty. The median commute time is over 35
minutes long.
4. Passaic, New Jersey
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Makela / Getty
Passaic has 70,000 residents —
58% of people working, and a third are living in poverty.
3. Detroit, Michigan
Joshua
Lott / Reuters
Detroit has 672,000 people, and
between 2010 and 2018, it lost nearly 6%. While 54% of people are working, 38%
live in poverty. The median household income is $27,838.
2. Port Arthur, Texas
Michael
S. Williamson / The Washington Post / Getty
Port Arthur, a city surrounded by
oil refineries, has 55,000 residents. Fifty-three percent are working and 30%
are living in poverty.
1. Gary, Indiana
Eric
Thayer / Reuters
Gary has 75,000 residents, but
lost 6% between 2010 and 2018. Just over half of the population works, and 36%
live in poverty. The most miserable city in the US was once a manufacturing
mecca, but those days are over.
A drug enforcement agent who grew
up in the area told The Guardian in 2017: "We used to be the murder
capital of the US, but there is hardly anybody left to kill. We used to be the
drug capital of the US, but for that you need money, and there aren't jobs or
things to steal here."
Leaving
California to the Homeless
Donald
Trump visited enemy territory this week.
He came
out here to the deep blue state of California to raise a few million bucks at
private fundraisers in Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills.
He also
went down to the border with Mexico to inspect the wall the federal government
is building to stop illegal immigration and protect what no longer deserves to
be called the Golden State.
What
the president couldn't see while he was out here were all the wealthy and
productive Californians who are leaving this state in droves.
They are
the people who are tired of being tortured by high state taxes and bad laws
like the ones that prevent low-income housing from being built, or that make
their electricity and gasoline so expensive.
They are
the people who've watched the sidewalks of their great cities being turned into
permanent tent communities for the poor, the homeless, the drugged and the
mentally disturbed.
They
are the tax base that has been footing the bill for the social welfare benefits
and government services that are bestowed so generously on state citizens and
illegal immigrants.
They have
seen the grim future of their formerly great state and said to themselves,
"We're outta' here."
But
millions of Californians like me can't leave. We have kids and grandkids here.
We love
the state and its people. We love the weather, the beaches, the deserts and the
mountains.
What
we don't love is what the Democrat Party and its policies have been doing for
decades to harm California and its big cities.
The
Democrats running this state almost act like they hate it. All they seem to
want is more illegal immigrants, more crippling environmental laws and higher
prices for everything.
The
shocking TV images of huge homeless communities living in tents in Los Angeles
and San Francisco are the most glaring sign of the Democrats' failure.
Even
Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom agree that it has been state policies like
strict building laws and environmental regulations that have created tens of
thousands of homeless people.
Only
let's please not call them "homeless people." It's a misnomer.
Most of
the thousands of people you see on TV living in tents and sleeping bags are
homeless by choice.
They're
mostly drug addicts. Or mentally ill. Or bums or vagrants who've chosen to live
on the street amid their own garbage, used drug needles and human waste.
They're
also mostly males.
There are
lots of genuinely homeless people in California who need assistance from
government or private social agencies.
But
they're usually women and children and they're usually living in shelters where
they can get the help they need.
Shelters
have rules you have to follow and homeless mothers and their kids will abide by
them. Men won't.
We keep
hearing that we need to build more low-income housing units for the homeless.
But the
truth is, most of the men on the sidewalks of downtown L.A. wouldn't stay in a
shelter if it was located in the penthouse of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
Half of
the country's unsheltered homeless people live in California. LA Mayor Eric
Garcetti wants President Trump to solve the state's homeless crisis.
But it's
the responsibility of the Democrat-controlled state government, the Democrat
governor and the Democrat mayors - the ones who created the crisis in the first
place.
For
California natives like me, it's a crying shame.
The
most beautiful state in the U.S. has been wrecked by Democrats and it's only
going to get worse as more illegal immigrants arrive from Mexico and Central
America.
I'm
afraid it's only a matter of time before the state runs out of money and the
productive people who provide it. -
Self-Destruction in the Golden State
Relocating to California was once the goal of
many Americans. But in recent years, the luster of living in the “Golden
State” has dimmed considerably. Those who still desire to move to what was once
widely viewed as a semi-paradise on the West Coast might want to assess what
they’ll find before pulling up stakes and heading there.
The Los Angeles Times has surveyed and published some
unnerving California developments. In the area served by this newspaper, Times investigators discovered what certainly
should be termed failing grades if the region were an educational institution.
It’s not, of course, but over recent months, the hard truths they found
include:
• 95 percent of warrants for murder in Los
Angeles and 75 percent of those on the “most wanted” list contain the names of
illegal immigrants.
• Over two/thirds of the births in L.A. County
are from illegal immigrant parentage and are paid for by taxpayers.
• Nearly 35 percent of inmates in the state’s
detention centers are illegal immigrants.
• According to the FBI, half of the gang
members in Los Angeles are illegal immigrants from south of the state’s border.
•
In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak only English and 3.1 million
speak only Spanish.
This information came from the mass-circulation
newspaper known for its liberal stance on almost all issues. Featuring
information about the effects of illegal immigration isn’t its usual practice.
The numbers we have cited didn’t appear in a single article. The bad news
compiled in this column was spread out over time. The bad news has led many
Californians to relocate themselves and their businesses to other parts of the
Golden State, even to other states.
Rather than simply accept the conclusions
reached above, I decided to ask a close friend who lives in Los Angeles County
if all of it was verifiable. He responded: “Yes it is. But there are bigger
problems that weren’t mentioned.” For instance, he pointed to the growing
number of vagrants living — and defecating — in the streets. He said the water
at the beaches is becoming hazardous to health and dangerous for swimming. He
told of business owners who have to get their sidewalks cleaned each morning.
And he reported that rats and disease-carrying insects have proliferated. Los
Angeles, he assured me, is filled with tents and absolute filth.
He then added the following:
Illegals
are registered to vote. Many are without a driver’s license and they get around
in dilapidated autos without insurance. A large number of these individuals
find jobs and demand to be paid only in cash. That way, there are no taxes paid
or reported. While many illegals are hard-working and otherwise model citizens,
they are encouraged to skirt the laws that everyone is supposed to obey. Even
they would confirm what the LA Times reported.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has responded to the
situation by calling for the imposition of a new “windfall tax” on retirement
incomes and stock market gains. She wants to distribute the funds to unemployed
illegal immigrants. Wasn’t it Karl Marx who suggested this as the way to solve
such problems (“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”)?
Pelosi regularly scoffs at President Trump’s
plan to build a wall at the border. She never airs the most important reason
for her opposition to keeping illegals from simply walking into the United
States. But her reason for such a stance is obvious: She expects that the
illegals who have already arrived and those who continue to cross into the
United States will vote for Democrats. And she’ll do whatever she can to care
for them, protect them, and urge their relatives to cross the border as well. Illegal
immigrants, like many legal immigrants and native-born Americans, are
overwhelmingly ignorant of limitations on government that made America great.
As soon as they are given the privilege of voting, they will speed the
conversion of California and the entire United States into a duplicate of
Venezuela or Cuba where central governments have total power.
Sad to state, California isn’t alone in
suffering from these problems. Pelosi’s home city of San Francisco is close
behind Los Angeles in its degradation. Other cities are close behind. The
entire nation seems determined to commit suicide. Illegal immigration must be
eliminated.
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
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.
The U.S. does not have
to rapidly increase its total
resident population and foreign-born population,
as legal immigration moratoriums have
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.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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.”
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.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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.”
Carson spoke
to reporters after touring the Union Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and non-profit organization
on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, at the core of the city’s homeless
population of almost 60,000 individuals.
The streets
surrounding the mission are lined with tents and trash. Homeless families sat
on the sidewalks, some in chairs, as cars struggled to navigate the chaos: a
homeless pair of lovers quarreled in the middle of an intersection.
Union Rescue Mission, Skid Row, Los Angeles (Joel Pollak /
Breitbart News)
Homeless couple, L.A. Skid Row (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)
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.
Relocating to
California was once the goal of many Americans. But in recent years, the luster
of living in the “Golden State” has dimmed considerably. Those who still
desire to move to what was once widely viewed as a semi-paradise on the West
Coast might want to assess what they’ll find before pulling up stakes and
heading there.
The Los Angeles Times has
surveyed and published some unnerving California developments. In the area
served by this newspaper, Times investigators
discovered what certainly should be termed failing grades if the region were an
educational institution. It’s not, of course, but over recent months, the hard
truths they found include:
• 95 percent of
warrants for murder in Los Angeles and 75 percent of those on the “most wanted”
list contain the names of illegal immigrants.
• Over two/thirds of
the births in L.A. County are from illegal immigrant parentage and are paid for
by taxpayers.
• Nearly 35 percent of
inmates in the state’s detention centers are illegal immigrants.
• According to the FBI,
half of the gang members in Los Angeles are illegal immigrants from south of
the state’s border.
• In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people
speak only English and 3.1 million speak only Spanish.
This information came
from the mass-circulation newspaper known for its liberal stance on almost all
issues. Featuring information about the effects of illegal immigration isn’t
its usual practice. The numbers we have cited didn’t appear in a single
article. The bad news compiled in this column was spread out over time. The bad
news has led many Californians to relocate themselves and their businesses to
other parts of the Golden State, even to other states.
Rather than simply
accept the conclusions reached above, I decided to ask a close friend who lives
in Los Angeles County if all of it was verifiable. He responded: “Yes it is.
But there are bigger problems that weren’t mentioned.” For instance, he pointed
to the growing number of vagrants living — and defecating — in the streets. He
said the water at the beaches is becoming hazardous to health and dangerous for
swimming. He told of business owners who have to get their sidewalks cleaned
each morning. And he reported that rats and disease-carrying insects have
proliferated. Los Angeles, he assured me, is filled with tents and absolute
filth.
He then added the
following:
Illegals are registered to vote. Many are
without a driver’s license and they get around in dilapidated autos without
insurance. A large number of these individuals find jobs and demand to be paid
only in cash. That way, there are no taxes paid or reported. While many
illegals are hard-working and otherwise model citizens, they are encouraged to
skirt the laws that everyone is supposed to obey. Even they would confirm what
the LA Times reported.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi has responded to the situation by calling for the imposition of a new
“windfall tax” on retirement incomes and stock market gains. She wants to
distribute the funds to unemployed illegal immigrants. Wasn’t it Karl Marx who
suggested this as the way to solve such problems (“From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs.”)?
Pelosi regularly scoffs
at President Trump’s plan to build a wall at the border. She never airs the
most important reason for her opposition to keeping illegals from simply
walking into the United States. But her reason for such a stance is obvious:
She expects that the illegals who have already arrived and those who continue
to cross into the United States will vote for Democrats. And she’ll do whatever
she can to care for them, protect them, and urge their relatives to cross the
border as well. Illegal immigrants, like many legal immigrants and native-born
Americans, are overwhelmingly ignorant of limitations on government that made
America great. As soon as they are given the privilege of voting, they will
speed the conversion of California and the entire United States into a
duplicate of Venezuela or Cuba where central governments have total power.
Sad to state,
California isn’t alone in suffering from these problems. Pelosi’s home city of
San Francisco is close behind Los Angeles in its degradation. Other cities are
close behind. The entire nation seems determined to commit suicide. Illegal
immigration must be eliminated.
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