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.
California
Governor Tries Blaming Trump Admin for Homeless Crisis
Source: Jeff Lewis/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare
Foundation
“CA is doing more than ever to tackle the
homelessness crisis despite the federal administration's roadblocks,” the
office tweeted, pointing to “1B investment including $650M in emergency aid,”
new legislation, and expert advice on addressing the issue.
CA
is doing more than ever to tackle the homelessness crisis despite the federal
administration's roadblocks:
$1B investment including $650M in emergency aid
New legislation to help cities & counties
Homelessness experts to identify solutions + moregov.ca.gov/2019/12/04/cal…
The office linked to a press
release from earlier in the month that highlighted the governor opening up
hundreds of millions in emergency aid to cities and counties across the
state.
“California is doing more than ever before to
tackle the homelessness crisis but every level of government, including the
federal government, must step up and put real skin in the game,” Newsom said at
the time. “California is making historic investments now to help our
communities fight homelessness. But we have work to do and we need the federal
government to do its part.”
The pushback comes after President Trump criticized California
on Wednesday over its failure to address the homeless problem and threatened
that the federal government would have to step in if the state couldn't fix the
situation.
According to a Housing and Urban Development report
last week, the rise in homelessness in the U.S. is largely due to California's
unchecked problem.
"While the rest of the country experienced a
combined decrease in homelessness in 2019, significant increases in unsheltered
and chronic homelessness on the West Coast, particularly California and Oregon,
offset those nationwide decreases, causing an overall increase in homelessness
of 2.7 percent in 2019,” HUD said in
a statement. “Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia reported declines
in homelessness between 2018 and 2019, while 21 states reported increases in
the number of persons experiencing homelessness. Homelessness in California
increased by 21,306 people, or 16.4 percent, which is more than the total
national increase of every other state combined.”
The exchange between Newsom and Trump comes after
the California governor blamed HUD for his state's homeless problem last
week.
In
spin room at #DemDebate, @GavinNewsom
slams Trump Administration and HUD for doing “nothing” on “housing first,” the
priority to solve homelessness.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson addressed
California's problem Thursday on Fox News, telling Ed Henry he hoped the state
would have more "urgency" in addressing the crisis.
"First of all, you have a
significant number of people with disturbances in their mental capacity. We
have drug addiction, and we have people who simply cannot afford to live in a
place where you have so many regulations that drive up the cost of
everything," he said.
He dismissed Sacramento's calls for more
HUD vouchers, saying such aid came from a nationwide pool of money that
"doesn't grow because you say, 'grow it.'"
He continued, "So, the better thing
to do is go and look at the root cause: Why are things they are
so expensive? What can be done about them? And then, how can we
deal with the mentally ill individuals?"
Washington
"recently was given a waiver by HHS so they could use Medicaid dollars for
mental illness. California could apply for that same waiver. And, those are the
kind of things that have to be done, and they have to be done with the federal,
state, local, as well as faith-based, the for-profit, the not-for-profits -- we
need to work together to get this done; it can be done, absolutely,"
Carson added. (Fox
News)
Carson then gave a direct message to Newsom, asking
him to "put the people first."
"It's Christmastime. Think about what the Bible says," he told
Henry. "'He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. He that honoreth
with him has mercy on the poor.' Let’s think about some mercy on the poor.
Let’s think about real compassion. Let’s not think about ways that we can keep
people dependent and in these horrible situations, but how can we liberate
them?"
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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