THERE IS A REASON WHY ALL BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS AND WANT
WIDER OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY AND NO E-VERIY!
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens
than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens
lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal
immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant
parents with children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
Tom
Steyer: Americans Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
13 Jan 20202,348
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Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor
and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to
illegal immigrants.
“A
Steyer Administration will … ensure that all undocumented communities have
access to affordable and safe housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal.
Steyer’s
offer of housing is combined with promises to provide illegals with free
healthcare, plus workplace training and cultural celebrations:
A
Steyer administration … [will] provide a safe platform for immigrants to share
their culture and celebrate their heritage, foster opportunities for public
service that support new Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and
the private sector in order to build workforce training and fellowship
opportunities for immigrants with professional qualifications from their home
nation to help them leverage their specialized skills in the American
marketplace.
Steyer
made his promise of cheap housing to illegals even though housing costs for
many Americans forces them to rent or buy cheaper housing far from work and
friends, and are being forced to give up hopes for larger families.
But
those housing costs are high partly because the federal government welcomes one
million new legal immigrants into the nation’s cities, neighborhoods, and
schools. That is a huge inflow — four million young Americans turn 18 each
year.
But
Steyer is a billionaire investor, so illegal migrants will not be moving into
his very expensive and well policed neighborhood. The New Yorker magazine
described his house in 2013:
President
[barack Obama] flew to San Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers.
He stopped in first at a cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a
fifty-six-year-old billionaire, former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to
the Democratic Party. Steyer lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a
house overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Any
inflow of migrants will be a boon to Steyer’s fellow investors who gain from
the extra workers, consumers, and renters. For example, one gauge of real
estate investments shows a 50 percent
gain since 2015, even as Americans’ wages and salaries rose by
only about 15 percent.
Meanwhile,
Steyer’s home state is experiencing record housing prices and record
homelessness as today’s illegals enjoy the state government’s offer of
sanctuary, jobs, and welfare. The federal housing agency reported January
7 the state has about 108,000
homeless:
This
year’s report shows that there was a small increase in the one-night estimates
of people experiencing homelessness across the nation between 2018 and 2019
(three percent), which reflects a 16 percent increase in California, and
offsets a marked decrease across many other states.
…
In
terms of absolute numbers, California has more than half of all unsheltered
homeless people in the country (53 percent or 108,432), with nearly nine times
as many unsheltered homeless as the state with the next highest number, Florida
(six percent or 12,476), despite California’s population being only twice that
of Florida.
In
September Breitbart News reported the
Census Bureau showed how the state’s housing costs are pushing Americans into
poverty:
The
September 10 study shows 18.2 percent of California’s population is poor, far
above the 13 percent poverty rate in Arkansas, 16 percent in Mississippi, and
the 14.6 percent in West Virginia.
…
By
2017, for example, the government’s pro-migration policies had added 11 million
people to the state’s native population of 29 million people. The huge inflow
means that one-in-four residents are immigrants.
Numerous
studies have shown many millions of foreigners want to migrate into Americans’
society. For example, another five million Central American residents
want to migrate into the United States, according to a Gallup survey published
right after the 2018 midterm elections.
Gallup
also noted “three percent of the world’s adults — or nearly 160 million people
— say they would like to move to the U.S.”
California's poverty rate is worse than Alabama &
Mississippi, says Census Bureau. The major cause of this huge change is
immigration policy which spikes housing costs & shrinks wages -- and
delivers huge gains for investors in real-estate & corp. shares. http://bit.ly/2mgvBlW
California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs
Steyer’s promise to welcome illegals is echoed by the other
investor billionaire in the Democrats’ primary, Mike Bloomberg, the former
mayor of New York. In January, he promised to make illegals comfortable with
Americans’ money, telling the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Well,
it’s a no brainer. You give [a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million people.
We’re not going to deport them anyways, it’s outrageous. If you look in New
York City, we make sure that people felt comfortable, regardless of their
immigration status, to come and get city services. I was always determined that
they would not be afraid to come. Somebody could need like life-threatening
things and does not get medical care. This is not a game. You’ve got to make
sure that they’re okay.
Housing
costs in Bloomberg’s New York are very high because it has huge populations of
illegal and legal immigrants. The result is that it has a homeless population
of roughly 92,000, and also the nation’s highest rate of
homelessness, at 46 homeless for every 10,000 people.
High
housing costs also make it difficult for Americans to move into towns and
cities that have better-paying jobs, according to a 2017 study about
the rising wealth gap in the
United States. Americans “are frozen where they live,” said Tom Donohue,
the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at a January 9 meeting.
But nearly all of the Democrats in the 2020 election have called
for more migrants — without showing any concern for the impact on Americans’
housing costs.
“We
could afford to take in a heartbeat another two million people,” Joe
Biden told
Democrats at an August event in Des Moines, Iowa. “The idea
that a country of 330 million people is cannot absorb people who are in
desperate need … is absolutely bizarre … I would also move to
increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the United
States.”
Sen.
Elizabeth Warren’s immigration plan, for
example, is titled “A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System.” It says:
We
need expanded legal immigration that will grow our economy, reunite families,
and meet our labor market demands … s president, I will immediately issue
guidance to end criminal prosecutions for simple administrative immigration
violations … As President, I’ll issue guidance ensuring that detention is
only used where it is actually necessary because an individual poses a flight
or safety risk … I’ll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and
ramping up to at least 175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
The
impact of federal immigration policy on Americans’ housing costs is taboo among
establishment reporters. But those costs were touted by a group of investors
lobbying Congress to raise housing prices by importing more immigrants. A
booklet by the Economic Innovation Group says:
The
relationship between population growth and housing demand is clear. More people
means more demand for housing, and fewer people means less demand … As a
result, a shrinking population will lead to falling prices and a deteriorating,
vacancy-plagued housing stock that may take generations to clear
…
The
potential for skilled immigrants to boost local housing markets is clear.
Notably, economist Albert Saiz (2007) found a 1% increase in population from
immigration causes housing rents and house prices in U.S. cities to rise
commensurately, by 1%
On
January 9, Donohue noted New Yorkers blocked the plan by Amazon and the city
government to build a new corporate headquarters in the city. The residents
protested the development plan partly because it would have driven up rents and
housing costs, said Donohue. “It is a very potent issue,” he observed.
A lobbying group for investors admits mass migration
helps investors in major coastal cities but 'fails' Americans in heartland
& rural towns. So it urges less immigration? No - it urges more migration
to spike family housing prices outside major cities! http://bit.ly/2VCZYUt
NYT Boosts Investors' Campaign for More Immigrant
Workers, Consumers
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.
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in Welfare to
Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In
2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to
illegal aliens and their families. That figure amounts to 25 percent of the total
spent on the county’s entire needy population, according to Fox News.
The
state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the
country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew
reported.
Approximately
a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles
County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with children born in the
United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The
welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los Angeles County
Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food stamp costs for
the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9 billion in 2016.
The
data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than 60,000
families received a total of $181 million.
Over
58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in 2015 and more
than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert
Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the
costs represent “the tip of the iceberg.”
“They
get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can cost the
government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things like
education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February
of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution making it a sanctuary
city. The resolution did not provide any new legal protections to their
immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In
October 2017, former California governor Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into
law. This bill made California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary
state.” The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California
over the law. A federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took
effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
According to Center for
Immigration Studies, “The new law does many things: It forbids all
localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars any law
enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program, and it prevents state and local police from inquiring
about individuals’ immigration status.”
Some
counties in California have protested its implementation and joined the Trump
administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s
campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants did not end with the
exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is just as focused as
Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the expense of California
taxpayers.
California’s
budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One California program,
which provides free legal assistance to all aliens, including those facing
deportation, and makes California’s public universities easier for
illegal-alien students to attend.
According
to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated
12.5 million illegal immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is
a $116 billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each
year, after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal
immigrants.
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MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN
THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY, THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST
OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New
data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million non-citizens
now live in the United States.
'We've been trying to talk to you': Homeless veteran protesters crash Buttigieg town hall
DES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg tried to stress the importance of being respectful despite a difference in opinions after demonstrators protesting his record on helping homeless veterans disrupted a town hall.
"Can I hear it one more time for the idea of respectful, honest, open, and transparent dialogue?" Buttigieg said Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Buttigieg, a top-four contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, had just slammed President Trump's handling of escalating tensions with Iran, saying he was risking the lives of U.S. troops who could be deployed to the region for an avoidable war.
"We've been trying to talk to you," one demonstrator said in response to the mayor's attempts to placate them.
Buttigieg supporters drowned out the shouts of the two main protesters by chanting the former mayor's name before activists started a competing, "Black Lives Matter," chant.
Buttigieg spokesman Sean Savett defended the candidate's record as chief executive of South Bend, Indiana. Savett said homelessness decreased by 33% over Buttigieg's two terms, adding he joined a national effort "to eradicate veteran homelessness by connecting homeless veterans with housing and other services, and achieved 'functional zero.'"
Buttigieg was similarly heckled this week during his California swing. Protesters told the Los Angeles Times, their travel from South Bend to the West Coast was paid for by a third party, but wouldn't disclose the identity of their financial backer.
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