Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
The Implications of Joe Biden's Amnesties
Millions — if not tens of millions — of new immigrants
Editor's note: Read more on Trump vs. Biden: Amnesty
On October 22, I wrote a post comparing and contrasting the positions of Donald Trump and Joe Biden on amnesty. That post only detailed the proposals of each — it did not actually discuss the implications of their respective plans. While Biden vows a legislative amnesty for over 11 million aliens, in reality, the number of foreign nationals who would enter and gain status — legal or otherwise — is actually much, much larger if his plans come to fruition.
During the October 22 presidential debate, Biden stated that within his first 100 days, he would "send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people." That promise came late in the debate, and casual observers may have missed it.
As I noted in my post, that promise is open-ended, because it is dependent on the illegal-alien population in the United States at a given time. But what given time?
Notably, the former vice-president has not set a cut-off date by which those aliens would have had to have been present in the United States to qualify (an element of most amnesties). This is an extremely important component of the ultimate size of the proposed amnesty.
Will the cut-off date be the date that this legislation is sent to Capitol Hill? The date that the bill is actually signed into law? Or will it be a date chosen that is earlier or later than either of those two dates?
Biden referenced DACA in the course of that statement, continuing: "And all those so called Dreamers, those DACA kids, they're going to be legally certified again, to be able to stay in this country, and put on a path to citizenship." DACA resulted from a memorandum that was issued by then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012, and applied only to aliens who had been present for five years as of that date (an example of an amnesty cut-off).
So, will June 15, 2007, be the date? Doubtful, because in the latest version of "Dreamer" legislation — the "American Dream and Promise Act of 2019" (which passed the House and has not been acted on in the Senate) — has a cut-off date that is four years prior to the date of passage. In fact, there will be tremendous impetus to legalize (in "one last amnesty", the sponsors will solemnly promise) all aliens illegally present in the United States on the date of passage.
Why? Because Biden's own campaign website rails against the current president's interior enforcement efforts: "Targeting people who have never been convicted of a serious criminal offense and who have lived, worked, and contributed to our economy and our communities for decades is the definition of counterproductive." In other words, Biden thinks that Trump has deported too many people.
As I explained in an October 12 post, that is a canard, because interior enforcement under Trump has not been significantly different (and in part is significantly less vigorous) than it was under the Obama-Biden administration. But given the fact that the Biden campaign's focus has not been on a lack of enforcement under the Trump administration, there will be strong impetus to legalize all aliens (illegal entrants and non-immigrant overstays) in the United States, regardless of how long they have been here.
Where, exactly, that cut-off (if any) is set will depend on whether the Republicans continue to control the Senate in the 117th Congress. Assuming Democratic control of the Upper Chamber, that date would likely be as of date of enactment, so long as there is not a huge surge of migrants entering illegally in the interim (which could cool their ardor for a later date).
Of course, as my colleague Todd Bensman has reported, DHS's most recent Homeland Threat Assessment predicts a massive wave of illegal migration in 2021. Whether that occurs (and whether the media reports on the effects of such a crisis) would likely determine whether the Biden administration attempts to turn down the magnet that a massive amnesty would create.
Even assuming, however, that there is a cut-off date, amnesties have always created an incentive for more migrants to enter the United States illegally, as new migrants enter illegally hoping that they will be able to take advantage of the next amnesty. Want proof? My former colleague Jim Edwards years ago explained, "the illegal population had replenished itself in less than a decade" after the 1986 amnesty. They came for a reason.
Of course, any amnesty that is not accompanied by a reform of the legal immigration system will have a "multiplier" effect on the number of foreign nationals who ultimately remain in and enter the United States legally.
The way that the current immigration laws are structured, immigrants are able to petition for their spouses and children to enter the United States, and once they become citizens, those erstwhile immigrants are able to petition for their parents and siblings, as well. My colleague Jessica Vaughan noted in a September 2017 Backgrounder that 61 percent of the 33 million immigrants admitted to the United States between 1981 and 2016 (20 million in total) were such "chain migration immigrants".
Nothing that the former vice president has said or issued on the campaign trail suggests that he has any intention of reforming that system (he actually says the opposite), however, and in fact, there is no reason to believe that he would not make immediate relatives abroad of an alien issued amnesty eligible for entry, too.
In fact, his campaign website states: "Each day, in every state in the country, millions of immigrants granted a visa based on family ties make valuable contributions to our country and economy." If he believes that was true in the past, why wouldn't it be true in the future as well?
Of course, that is just the de jure legislative amnesty that the former vice president proposes. He has actually promoted a significant de facto amnesty for foreign nationals currently abroad and almost all aliens in the United States.
With respect to foreign nationals, Biden has vowed to eliminate executive actions taken by the current administration to limit the number of aliens who enter illegally and claim credible fear (as 105,439 migrants did in FY 2019). This, coupled with his promise to relax the current standards for asylum, will provide stronger incentives for foreign nationals to enter the United States in the future (and provide yet another selling point for their prospective smugglers).
There is no reason to believe that Biden will expand the detention of those migrants (his campaign and supporters, in fact, want to decrease detention), and therefore an untold number of foreign nationals would almost definitely enter the United States illegally and be released into this country under a Biden administration.
Once released, there is no reason to believe that they will ever leave. Why do I say that? Because, as I have noted, the former vice president has stated that he will only remove aliens who have committed felonies in the United States (not including DUI), and will fire any ICE officer who transgresses this mandate.
Unless Biden gives way on either the legislative amnesty, the de facto one, or both, that will mean that millions — if not tens of millions — of aliens will remain in and/or enter the United States illegally and stay forever.
That wave of new aliens will fall hardest on the most underprivileged American workers (citizens, nationals, and legal immigrants already here). Those amnestied immigrants will largely have modest levels of education (as my colleague Steven Camarota has explained is true of the current undocumented population), and will probably not have the skills to find high-paying jobs in the 21st century American economy (if they did, they would likely not enter illegally to begin with).
As I have noted previously, the George W. Bush Center (which promotes immigration and contends that it is a "net plus"), admits:
Immigration changes factor prices — it lowers the wages of competing workers, while raising the return to capital and the wages of complementary workers.
...
Research suggests that previous immigrants suffer more of the adverse wage effects than do natives. Prior immigrants are more like current immigrants.
Research also suggests any negative wage effects are concentrated among low-skilled and not high-skilled workers. Perhaps that is because high-skilled U.S.-born workers are complementary to immigrants to a greater extent than native low-skilled workers, who hold jobs that require less education and fewer language skills.
With respect to those wage effects, the former vice president has stated that he is concerned about such disadvantaged American workers, and therefore supports a $15 minimum wage. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in July 2019 found, however, that a proposal to do just that by 2025 would reduce up to 3.7 million workers over that period, and reduce real family income by $9 billion — changes that "would mainly affect low-income families."
Again, the vast majority of aliens who would benefit from Biden's amnesty proposals would be such low-income families. This is certainly true in the short-term, but likely would be true in the longer term as well, as potential workers would never gain the skills that they need to advance.
It is beyond cavil that politicians make promises on the campaign trail that they end up paring back or fail to keep entirely (Mexico has not paid for the barriers along the Southwest border, as then-candidate Trump vowed, for example). There is likely to be a backlash against many of Biden's amnesty proposals, which have gained little attention during his campaign. I would question whether many Americans are actually in favor of having more criminals in their communities, for example.
But there are certainly political advantages to him and his party from his proposals, as those newly legalized immigrants become citizens and likely to support the party that made their status possible.
I leave it to my more statistically apt colleagues to estimate the effects that these amnesties will have on public benefits and municipal services. But, at least in the short-term, there are likely to be adverse effects, as hospitals have to expand their resources to care for a burgeoning population, and localities have to increase their police, fire, garbage, and social services capacities.
And, inasmuch as the former vice president vows to undo the Trump administration "public charge rule", the effect on public benefits (particularly SNAP, most forms of Medicaid, and Section 8 housing assistance) are likely to be significant, and long- (or at least longer-) lasting.
All of this is dependent on Biden's election, and the make-up of the 117th Congress. As polls suggest that Democrats are likely to sweep to victory in at least the White House and House of Representatives (and quite possibly the Senate, as well), however, the table is all but set for those amnesties to begin.
YOU WILL NEVER HEAR OUT OF THE
CORRUPT MOUTHS OF THESE BRIBES SUCKING POLITICIANS, FEINSTEIN, PELOSI,
GAVIN NEWSOM OR KAMALA HARRIS THE STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO'S INVASION,
OCCUPATION AND EVER EXPANDING WELFARE STATE. THEY ALREADY GET OUR JOBS
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.
Immigration
Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed
by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare
programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
“The
Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended
was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of
unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Liberal California Emigrants are Toxic
When
Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe
Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise.
Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this
instance, at least, the polling was correct.
The
question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as
recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP
presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly
blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies
and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.
The
answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California.
Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than
any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high
crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high
unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.
Who
is responsible for creating such an alarming living environment within the
state? California liberals. A November, 2020 report produced by the Mercatus
Center at George Mason University stated that California has 395,608 regulatory
restrictions. The sheer volume and scope of California regulations creates such
a compliance nightmare that they kill entire industries, send housing prices to
unattainable heights, and restrict even commonplace liberties for which
conservative leaning states are known.
Piled
onto California’s endless river of regulations are its nonsensical laws and
policies. Twenty major metropolitan cities or counties in California have
established laws, ordinances, regulations, or other practices that shield
illegal immigrants from prosecution after committing a crime. These counties
brazenly safeguard illegal immigrant criminals against deportation either
through noncompliance or by refusing to hand them over to federal agencies such
as ICE. With over $1.5 trillion in state and local government debt, California
effectively has little money to spare for conveniences such as criminal
incarceration. What do sanctuary cities and counties see as the
alternative to handing illegal immigrant criminals over for deportation?
Release them back into the general population, of course.
Consider
this: Between 2014 and 2017, the FBI reported that 49 states saw an average
increase in crime annually of around 3%. After implementing “humane”
alternatives to criminal prosecution, California crime increased more than 12%
per year over the same time period. With irrational sanctuary
policies that send a clear message of little to no consequence for offenses, is
it any wonder California’s crime rate is now spiraling out of control?
Arizona
is not the only beneficiary of the California exodus. The Colorado State
Demography Office has published an active flow map of people moving into the
state from 2010 on. Disturbingly, the state sending the most movers to Colorado
since then has consistently been California. As recently as 2004, Colorado had
the political trifecta of a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled
House and Senate. A short ten years later, all three had turned irrevocably
Democrat. The subsequent consequence? A drastic increase in state and local regulations,
a dramatic increase in violent crimes, a severe shortage of home
What
has coincided with Colorado’s decline? The mass inflow of Californians to the
state. Californians have brought with them all the very same liberal doctrines
and ideologies that forced their flight from California in the first place.
Does this dissuade liberal Californians from shaping Colorado into the very
image of California? Not in the least.
If
there is any hope for Arizona, it is that they might learn from the resulting
ruin of Colorado, however unlikely.
In
the 2020 election, Texas was startlingly considered in play for liberals. Since
2015, which state has contributed the most emigrants into Texas? Not
surprisingly, the state of California. The hope for liberals is that they can
turn Texas into the next purple soon-to-be blue state. The coveted prize is
Texas’ electoral votes. Even more insidious, if liberals are able to capture
Texas as they have done in Colorado and Arizona, they will force the state to
join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. They will then achieve their
ultimate goal of a Democrat president reigning over the United States for
endless generations until the point our country experiences the same collapse
as other great civilizations throughout world history.
The
obvious question is this: How can Texas avoid the same fate as states such as
Colorado and Arizona? Simple. By being proactive.
It
is much easier for liberals to enact new legislation than to argue for the
removal of existing laws. With this in mind, Texas should take advantage of
their current Republican-controlled Senate, House, and governor’s office by
making haste and passing laws that would limit the future incursion of liberal
meddling. Texas can presently enact laws that prohibit sanctuary cities,
require voter approval to remove the state’s mandated balanced budget, require
that any new regulation must necessitate the removal of an existing one, and
compel voter approval of each new local or state tax including non-user fees.
While such laws may only serve to stem the liberal takeover of the state, they
would be roadblocks making it much more difficult for ideological infiltration
in areas that affect inhabitant’s liberties and quality of life.
It
would be absurd to suppose Californians have malintent. Rather, they are simply
following the course with which they are most familiar while being blissfully
ignorant of the negative unintended consequences their political ideology
brings. To suggest that any act of suppression, aggression, or intimidation
towards Californians moving into red states is acceptable would simply be
un-American and subject to the same type of hypocrisy liberals practice. If
conservatives stoop to their level, we have lost the battle and, perhaps, the
war.
However,
by taking aggressive legislative action in states that have not yet succumbed
to liberal infiltration, Conservatives will effectively be planting our flag in
a defiant refusal to hand over our institutions and our liberty.
State and Local Politicians Move to Grant
Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
By Matthew Tragesser
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/08/illegal-alien-benefits-states-immigrationreform-com/
Study:
More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10
households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on
taxpayer-funded welfare, a new
study reveals.
The
latest Census Bureau data analyzed by
the Center for Immigration
Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households
headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded
welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in
the U.S.
Meanwhile,
only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare
in California.
All
four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California,
have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for
example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use
taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born
households in Texas are on welfare.
In
New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and
noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households
use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.
President
Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects
American taxpayers’ dollars from
funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by
enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely
to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of
welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public
housing.
The
immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of
an annual $57.4
billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend
every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the
country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal
immigrants.
As Breitbart
News reported, the
majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country
every year use about 57
percent more food stamps than the average native-born American
household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash
welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid
dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44
million foreign-born population translates to the average
immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in
federal welfare.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
A DACA amnesty would put
more citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal
welfare, as Breitbart News reported, while American
taxpayers would be left potentially with
a $26 billion bill.
Additionally,
about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on
food stamps, while at least one-in-seven would go on
Medicaid. JOHN BINDER
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government
....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he
pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax
Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income
credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for
SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this
is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour
in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after
Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/californias-privileged-class-mexican.html
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE
ILLEGAL
Here’s
how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
THE
TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE
IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY!
Staggering expensive "cheap" Mexican labor did
not build this once great nation! Look what it has done to Mexico. It's all
about keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost of the invasion,
their welfare, and crime tidal wave costs to the backs of the American people!
AMERICA:
YOU’RE BETTER OFF BEING AN ILLEGAL!!!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/06/in-america-it-is-better-to-be-illegal.html
This
annual income for an impoverished American family is $10,000 less than the more
than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on each unaccompanied minor
border crosser.
A study by Tom
Wong of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25
percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That
totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled
illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified
illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase
what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was
the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE
MAGAZINE
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households
headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households
headed by native-born Americans.
Simultaneously,
illegal immigration next year is on track to soar to the
highest level in a decade, with a potential 600,000 border crossers expected.
“More
than 750 million people want to migrate to another country permanently,
according to Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world leaders sign up to
the controversial UN global compact which critics say makes migration a human
right.” VIRGINIA HALE
For example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about
$26 billion, more than the border wall, and that
does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the
legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens.
Exclusive–Steve Camarota:
Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
Every
illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers
about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve
Camarota says.
During
an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily, Camarota said his
research has revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal
immigration has on America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of
public services, depressed wages, and welfare.
“In
a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost
taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that
excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you
add that in.”
LISTEN:
“Once
[an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of
their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they
can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food
stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota
said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal
immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the
f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete
for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.
In
past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an
expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with
mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,”
according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The
RAISE Act — reintroduced
in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and
Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the
immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving American
workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming
immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes
the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top
earners.
“Virtually
none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we
also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare
state,” Camarota continued:
We’re
not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context,
bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for
public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads
weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally
different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of
bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government …
and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]
The
immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign
up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up.
It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal
immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our
most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has
reported, U.S. households headed by
foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by
native-born Americans.
Every
year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the
vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born
population reached
a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration
Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S.
will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
Breitbart News
Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to
9:00 a.m. Eastern.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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.
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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