America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Friday, January 6, 2023
NAFTA JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, I HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING RENT FOR YEARS! WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT AMERICANS LIVING ON THE SIDEWALK AND UNDER FREEWAY UNDERKPASSES???
'ABOUT TO BREAK' THE LYING POL SAYS? CALIFORNIA HAS LONG BEEN
A COLONY OF MEXICO AND LA RAZA WELFARE STATE. CA HAS THE
LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AND THE LARGEST NUMBER OF
HOMELESS. NOT HARD TO DO THE MATH ON THAT EVEN AS THEIR LIES
FLOW LIKE AN OPEN SEWER.
‘About to Break’: Newsom Says Feds Are Overwhelming California With Immigrants
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) / ReutersSusannah Luthi • December 13, 2022 6:00 pm
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) this week warned that California would experience an unsustainable flow of illegal immigrants once President Joe Biden reverses the Trump administration’s border policy.
"The fact is, what we’ve got right now is not working and is about to break in a post-42 world unless we take some responsibility and ownership," the governor told ABC News Monday.
Newsom’s comments allude to the Biden administration’s plan to next week lift Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows law enforcement to quickly expel illegal immigrants. The governor also complained about the Biden administration’s decision to send "planes and buses to California full of migrants because of all the good work … the state is doing for the immigrant community," ABC News's Sacramento, Calif., affiliate reported.
Newsom's apparent criticism of Biden’s immigration moves is new for the governor known for tweeting condemnations of Texas and Florida, whose Republican governors have transported busloads of illegal immigrants to liberal enclaves like Martha’s Vineyard and Washington, D.C. Newsom also raised his national profile by fighting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Now, it seems, he will miss at least some aspects of Trump’s pandemic policy.
"I'm saying that as a father," Newsom said. "I'm saying that as someone that feels responsible for being part of the solution and I'm trying to do my best here."
Newsom added that he didn't mean "to point fingers."
Spokesmen for Newsom and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond when the Washington Free Beacon asked how many immigrants the federal government has sent to California this year.
The Newsom team did not give California reporters advance warning of his border visit, which ABC said was apparently only covered by national press.
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says aWashington Postreport that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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So Democrats in Congress helped Democrats in the White House smuggle roughly 2.2 million southern migrants over the southern border, and also to supercharge the transfer of legal migrants and visa workers into U.S. jobs. “The issue of immigration is how do we make sure that companies and businesses have the opportunity to employ people,” labor secretary Marty Walsh said in December. NEIL MUNRO
Biden Seeks To Solve Border Crisis—by Making It Easier To Enter the United States
Migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela will have an easier time entering the country thanks to President Joe Biden's new immigration plan, which he says will stymie illegal border crossings.
The United States will accept up to 30,000 migrants from those countries under a "humanitarian parole" program, Biden announced on Thursday. Migrants who qualify for the program will be able to travel directly from their home countries to the United States after applying to the program through a mobile app, rather than declare asylum at the southern border after crossing from Mexico. Biden in the fall implemented a pilot version of the program for Venezuelans.
Biden's plan comes as the United States, since the president took office, has suffered the worst border crisis in its history. Federal data show that the southern border has seen more than four million illegal border crossings since the beginning of 2021, with the pace showing no signs of slowing.
Critics of Biden's proposal questioned how making it easier for migrants to enter the United States would deter migrants from illegally crossing the southern border. Others raised questions about the legality of Biden's proposal.
"This is one of the most egregious, unlawful abuses of humanitarian parole authority in the history of our nation—a middle finger to Congress, the American people, and the rule of law," said Federation for American Immigration Reform director of communications R.J. Hauman.
Biden argued the new plan would ease strain on Border Patrol and offer clarification for those who wish to migrate to the United States. Individuals who don't meet the eligibility requirements will be deported under an expansion of Title 42, a public health law that allows for the accelerated expulsion of migrants.
"We should all recognize that as long as America is the land of freedom and opportunity, people are going to try to come here," Biden said.
Migrants who qualify for the program include those with financial and familial support in the United States. The Biden administration says individuals in the countries covered by the program face unique hardship, citing instability and crime.
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says aWashington Postreport that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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WashPost Ignores Migration, but Blames Investors for Record Rents
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says a Washington Post report that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
The January 2 article focused on rising rents at apartments owned by Starwood Capital Group:
At Starwood’s Estates at Wellington Green in Palm Beach County, Fla., the company raised some rents by as much as 52 percent in 2022; at the Griffin Apartments in Scottsdale, Ariz., it increased them by 35 percent over the same period. At the Cove at Boynton Beach in Florida, it boosted rents on some units by as much as 93 percent in 2022.
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Edgar Enrique, a pool cleaner from Guatemala who shares with his wife a one-bedroom at Starwood’s Reserve at Ashley Lake, said his rent jumped from $1,600 to $2,000. “For me, it’s not good,” Enrique said. “Why does it cost $400 more now?”
The rents are rising fast because investment executives are pushing to maximize their companies’ profits, the Post reported:
Some families said they were forced into difficult downsizings: Couples with children moved from two-bedroom to one-bedroom apartments even though, as one father said, “we’re tripping over each other.” Another family with three children had a two-bedroom at the Reserve at Ashley Lake. A few months ago, they got a notice that the rent would be rising from $1,600 to $2,000 per month, they said. They moved in with a family member. “We’re trying to save to get out of the cycle,” said the father, an immigrant from Haiti who sells life insurance.
The article downplayed the impact of Biden’s border policy and instead sought to focus all the blame on real-estate companies.
Since January 2021, Biden’s migration has added at least 4 million southern migrants to the United States population, not counting at least two million legal immigrants and visa workers. Assuming six people per apartment, that’s an extra demand for roughly 700,000 apartments in two years when only 800,000 new apartments were completed.
Housing industry groups recognize — but downplay — the link between migration and rents.
“Rising rents are largely a byproduct of limited supply and high demand across the rental market,” said a July 2022 op-ed in the Washington Post by Robert Pinnegar, the president and CEO of the National Apartment Association in Arlington, Va.
An August 22 report by the apartment association lamented the slowdown of migration by President Donald Trump:
Immigration was already on the decline prior to the pandemic, noticeably tapering off in 2017. By 2019, immigration was nearly half the level of 2016 when it was over 1 million persons. The pandemic further crushed that figure, and in 2021, just 245,000 immigrants entered the U.S. Although the new administration has put several policies in place to improve immigration, it has been slow to return …
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In the upside scenario, … immigration rates increase to recent highs, or about 1.2 million per year. This would provide both a higher level of minorities and younger people to the population base. In this scenario … the strong population growth leads to demand for 4.8 million units, or about 344,000 per year.
“I think this is the strongest real estate market I’ve seen in 30 years, 35 years,” Starwood founder Barry Sternlicht said in early 2022.
“We’re in a position now where occupancy is extremely strong and we are pushing rents,” a Starwood executive told a real-estate event, the Post reported.
Starwood rejected the Post‘s investor-focused blame, saying in a statement that: “We would not have been able to grow and maintain our portfolio at this size if we acted differently than any other landlord in this space.”
A view of houses in Los Angeles, California, on July 5, 2022. While two years of a booming U.S. housing market brought wealth to many, a shortage of housing is making home ownership unaffordable for millions of Americans with prices up more than 30% over the past few years and interest rates rising. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
Academic research says immigration drives up rents — and also spikes housing prices in nearby locations as Americans flee from the civic impact of the new migrants.
“Using data that span from 2002–2012, we find, as have others, that immigration inflows are associated with rising rents and prices,” according to a March 2017 study of almost 300 “Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), titled “Immigration and housing: A spatial econometric analysis.” The summary reported:
An increase in the number of immigrants equal to 1 percent of an MSA’s total population was linked with a 0.8 percent increase in rents and a 0.8 percent increase in home prices.
This same increase in immigrants was associated with a 1.6 percent rise in rents and a 9.6 percent rise in home prices in surrounding MSAs.
As immigrants move into an MSA, natives tend to move to surrounding MSAs, indicating that the spillover effects may be driven by native-population movements.
Immigrants now comprise roughly 14 percent — or one in seven — of all residents in the United States. That inflow has helped to spike rents and housing costs in California and other coastal states, especially when politicians and builders jointly roll back suburban zoning rules.
“Rents are simply about supply and demand,” said Andrew Good, a director at NumbersUSA. He added:
Not only is it not a secret, but industry reports say the truth out loud: It is beyond dispute that today’s demand is driven by our loose borders … Rent-raising companies are just following the market that Congress created. It will continue until voters put their foot down.
The combination of rising housing costs and decades of flatlined wages is also pushing many people to crowd into overcrowded housing. The New York Timesreported in August 2020 about poor migrants trying to live near their service-sector jobs in California’s Silicon Valley during the coronavirus crash:
There were 12 people in three bedrooms, with a bathroom whose door frequently required a knock and a kitchen where dinnertime shifts extended from 5 p.m. well into the evening.
Karla Lorenzo, a Guatemalan immigrant who cleaned houses in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, lived in the big room along the driveway. Big is a relative term when a room has five people in it. She and her partner, Abel, slept in a queen-size bed along the wall. There was a crib for the baby at the foot, with the older children’s bunk bed next to that. The other housemates had similar layouts.
The rising rents and shrinking salaries are also helping to spike the number of homeless Americans.
Since 1990, the federal policy of Extraction Migration is pulling in more migrant renters, workers, and consumers, and has repeatedly been defended by the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, founder of the Amazon retail empire.
This open-borders policy reverses the low-migration, high-wage policies set by President Donald Trump — and the reversal helped cause a massive run-up in stock prices when Biden was elected.
For example, Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. was worth $134 per share in January 2021 when Biden was inaugurated. It spiked to $229 per share 12 months later, before falling to $156 in January 2022 amid rising interest rates. But the company’s January 2021 to January 2022 rise-and-fall still left it up by 16 percent amid two years of high migration.
Similarly, Starwood’s stock value doubled from October 2020 to June 2021 — but then dropped by 27 percent in January 2022 amid higher interest rates. That rise and fall back to January 2021 levels matched other apartment investors, such as Avalon Bay, and Equity Residential.
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says aWashington Postreport that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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Homeless Die in Doorways in L.A. Amid Nationwide Surge in Deaths
LOS ANGELES, California — Homeless people are dying in the doorways of storefronts on the streets of L.A. amid a nationwide surge in deaths among the homeless population in the midst of a cold and stormy winter.
Deaths within the homeless population rose in many U.S. cities in 2022. In Reno, Nevada, for example, the number of homeless deaths doubled in 2022 from the year before; Seattle and King County saw the highest number of homeless deaths in two decades, at 270 people.
Forensic assistant Laurentiu Bigu, left, and investigator Ryan Parraz from the Los Angeles County coroner’s office cover the body of a homeless man found dead on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, Monday, April 18, 2022. The 60-year-old man died from the effects of methamphetamine, according to his autopsy report. Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Though the immediate causes of death vary, from exposure to COVID, one cause is drug overdoses. There were nearly 108,000 deaths from drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021, many caused by the spread of lethal fentanyl.
Some critics of current homelessness policies argue that drugs are being overlooked as a cause of the deaths.
Deaths are partly caused by cold conditions: five homeless people died in one recent cold snap in Seattle, for example. But even warm-weather cities are seeing a shocking rise in homeless deaths
The San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported that the city saw a record 574 homeless deaths in 2022, up 7% from the year before — and 39% from 2020. It added that the true number of homeless deaths was likely higher.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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