Woman Suing Los Angeles: Eric Garcetti Increasing Coronavirus Risk by Sheltering Homeless in Rec Centers
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s sheltering of homeless persons in municipal suburban recreation centers increases the risk of coronavirus’ spread among Los Angelenos, said Susie Gilman, who filed a lawsuit to stop the city’s relocation of its destitute population.
“[The city] started converting rec centers in suburban neighborhoods and throughout the city and got [homeless] people indoors right away, which seemed like a good idea,” said Gilman on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak. “We all started receiving mandates about how we needed to social distance [and] self-isolate, and my neighbors and I started to wonder how that can be possible … if they’re going to put everybody in one big room together. Isn’t that dangerous? Won’t that affect them? Won’t that be the wrong thing to do?”
Pollak recalled a recent report from the LA Times regarding 70 confirmed coronavirus infections at a homeless shelter in Los Angeles.
“We know that the virus travels better indoors than it does outdoors,” Pollak stated, “And then there’s the issue of bringing [infected] people into residential communities that may have been relatively unaffected until now. … This is something the CDC specifically addresses. They say we don’t advocate that cities clear these homeless encampments, because you could assist with community spread.”
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Homeless populations are unlikely to follow CDC guidelines for minimizing the coronavirus’ spread, determined Gilman.
“They are probably not going to wear masks,” Gilman stated. “They’re going to go in and out at free will, which [will likely] be infecting the neighborhood — as well as each other — when they go back into the shelters.”
“Tent areas” and other temporary encampments had been set up around recreational centers filled beyond capacity with homeless persons, explained Gilman.
“They’ve set up tent areas in all the surrounding areas,” Gilman shared, “Along the sidewalks, if it’s a rec center that has a baseball field, they’re all over the fields — in the dugouts and on the bleachers. It’s like a mini tent city, a sort of a Skid Row.”
City authorities are not reporting numbers of coronavirus infections among homeless persons sheltered in municipal recreation centers, Gilman warned.
“It’s not doing anything to flatten the curve,” said Gilman of Garcetti’s plan, warning of national impacts if Los Angeles fails to slow the growth of coronavirus infections. “We’re the second largest city in America, and we’re as if we don’t flatten the curve, I don’t know what’s going to happen to America. It’s anything but a local issue.”
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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.
BLOG: 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.
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