Los Angeles County is cutting $14 million from the police budget to compensate illegal migrants who were held in jails until they could be picked up and deported by federal agents.
The October 12 vote by the five-member county board is intended to settle a lawsuit by multiple pro-migration groups, and it is being portrayed as a warning to other cities and counties.
The $14 million payout will go to people – nearly all illegal migrants — who were detained by local cops to help deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement {ICE} between 2010 and 2014 . The payouts will range from $250 to 425,000, with an average payment of roughly $700. Many of the migrants were successfully deported and may not learn about their promised windfall.
“This is a very significant settlement, and it is hopefully a wake-up call to law enforcement agencies around the country who continue to hold people for ICE,” Jennie Pasquarella, a lawyer with the ACLU of Southern California, told the Washington Post .
The money is being taken from the county’s police budget, reducing police resources to curtail the city’s rising crime. NBCLosAngeles.com reported October 6:
The Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday an alarming increase in street violence had continued in recent days, with at least 50 people shot and more than a dozen murdered.
“We haven’t seen that type of week in over 10 years,” said LAPD Assistant Chief Robert Arcos.
Newman is a progressive, so his advocacy for illegal migrants and sanctuary cities can help to drive down wages and drive up rents for millions of Californians.
For example, his support for illegal migrants is echoed by advocates for the nation’s wealthiest investors, including the founders of FWD.us and the New America Economy .
Many Democrat-run counties and cities — and their local media outlets — have welcomed and protected the cheap migrant labor that is preferred by local business groups who are eager to avoid hiring unskilled, poor Americans.
“Sanctuary cities …. have won the war directed against them by [President Donald] Trump, FOX, et al and, in the process, shielded 100’s of thousands of people from deportation and criminalization,” said a tweet by Chris Newman, the top lawyer at the National Day Labor Organizing Network, which is part of the lawsuit.
This hidden reliance on foreign labor has proved vulnerable during the coronavirus crash and has forced many jurisdictions to ask Congress for taxpayer bail-outs of their cheap labor economies . However, Newman and other post-national progressives downplay the damage caused by employers’ easy access to huge inflow of legal and illegal migrant labor.
Joe Biden’s 2020 plan includes several proposals to expand the inflow of foreign workers and consumers into the United States.
He promises to let mayors import foreign workers for local jobs , let companies import more visa workers for college jobs, expand the inflow of chain-migration migrants , suspend immigration enforcement against illegals, dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees , and also provide more health care and other aid to arriving migrants.
Open-ended legal migration is praised by businesses and progressives partly because the arrival of migrants helps to transfer wealth from wage-earners to stockholders .
Migration moves money from employees to employers , from families to investors , from young to old , from home-buyers to real estate investors , and from the central states to the coastal states .
Migration also allows investors to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities , ignore disabled people , exploit stoop labor in the fields, short-change migrant labor in the cities, gain more control over professionals, centralize technological innovation, and undermine labor rights .
Trump Campaign:
Democrats Give Housing to Illegal Migrants, Penalizing Black Americans Spencer Platt/Getty Images
28 Aug 2020 23
3:30
President
Donald Trump’s campaign used the issue of illegal immigration on Thursday to
seek votes from working-class blacks.
A short video released by the Trump campaign Twitter account
highlighted the president’s record on improving public housing in New York and
other cities.
“My name is Judy Smith,” said one black woman, who continued:
I live in New York City public housing. I’m grateful for
the spotlight that President Trump is putting on New York City public housing.
I think it’s wrong that the Democrats put illegal immigrants before black
Americans. How is it that we have people waiting on the waiting lists for New
York City public housing for 10 years or more, but yet we have illegal
immigrants living here? Something is wrong with that picture.
President Trump is bringing real solutions
to real problems. #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/3Q7s2ZEchE
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) August 28, 2020
The comments were likely aimed at working-class blacks in many
swing states, including several Midwest states.
“Working-class African Americans are significantly more
supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming
to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment
status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship
provisions,” said a 2013 peer-reviewed study by Tatishe Nteta, a professor
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The study continued :
For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant,
working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the
probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight
[against employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class
African Americans who experienced a similar loss.
Numerous polls show
that blacks — like all other groups — say they wish to welcome migrants, but
strongly prefer that
Americans get jobs before companies import more migrants.
Nationwide, the expanded supply of new migrants also cuts
Americans’ disposable wages by inflating their housing costs . That
reality is recognized by investor groups who are urging more immigration. For example, 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.”
Mike Bloomberg’s pro-migration advocacy group, New American Economy , pushed
the same argument :
The research shows that an increase in the absolute number of
immigrants in a particular county from 2000–2010 results in corresponding
economic gains—increased demand for locally produced goods and services, a
corresponding inflow of U.S.-born individuals—that are reflected in the housing
market.
The video also included comments from other blacks in New York:
My name is Manuel Martinez … Under the Trump administration, New
York City Housing Authority has received an influx of cash that it has not seen
since 1997.
My name is Claudia Perez I’m the resident council
president of Washington Houses, which is in Spanish Harlem. [New York Mayor]
Bill de Blasio and the way he has dealt with public housing residents is
disgraceful. President Trump administration has opened their ears and has
listened … [and] is bringing real solutions to real problems.
The video ends with the claim, “More Funding: Better Housing:
Promise Made: Promise Kept.”
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful. graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) August
26, 2020
Another
line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans
wait
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/another_line_they_cut_into_illegals_get_free_public_housing_as_impoverished_americans_wait.html
By Monica Showalter
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.
According
to a report in the Washington
Times :
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 BY MASOOMA HAQ
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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