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.
Many Guatemalans Aren't Seeking Asylum in US Over
Violence, Political Persecution. They Want Giant Homes.
By Todd Bensman
Townhall.com, March 3, 2020
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Should be Renamed
the “Overwhelm America Act"
How Sanders
and radical Dems weaponize compassion to destroy America.
By Michael Cutler
Tom Steyer: Americans
Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
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Tom Steyer, the
billionaire investor and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide
cheap housing to illegal immigrants.
“A Steyer
Administration will … ensure that all undocumented communities have access to
affordable and safe housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal .
Steyer’s
offer of housing is combined with promises to provide illegals with free
healthcare, plus workplace training and cultural celebrations:
A Steyer
administration … [will] provide a safe platform for immigrants to share their
culture and celebrate their heritage, foster opportunities for public service
that support new Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the
private sector in order to build workforce training and fellowship
opportunities for immigrants with professional qualifications from their home
nation to help them leverage their specialized skills in the American
marketplace.
Steyer
made his promise of cheap housing to illegals even though housing costs for
many Americans forces them to rent or buy cheaper housing far from work and
friends, and are being forced to give up hopes for larger families.
But those
housing costs are high partly because the federal government welcomes one
million new legal immigrants into the nation’s cities, neighborhoods, and
schools. That is a huge inflow — four million young Americans turn 18 each
year.
But
Steyer is a billionaire investor, so illegal migrants will not be moving into
his very expensive and well policed neighborhood. The New Yorker magazine
described his house in 2013:
President
[barack Obama] flew to San Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers.
He stopped in first at a cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a
fifty-six-year-old billionaire, former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to
the Democratic Party. Steyer lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a house
overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Any
inflow of migrants will be a boon to Steyer’s fellow investors who gain from
the extra workers, consumers, and renters. For example, one gauge of real
estate investments shows a 50 percent gain since 2015, even as Americans’
wages and salaries rose by only about 15 percent .
Meanwhile,
Steyer’s home state is experiencing record housing prices and record
homelessness as today’s illegals enjoy the state government’s offer of
sanctuary, jobs, and welfare. The federal housing agency reported January 7 the state has
about 108,000 homeless :
This
year’s report shows that there was a small increase in the one-night estimates
of people experiencing homelessness across the nation between 2018 and 2019
(three percent), which reflects a 16 percent increase in California, and
offsets a marked decrease across many other states.
In terms
of absolute numbers, California has more than half of all unsheltered homeless
people in the country (53 percent or 108,432), with nearly nine times as many
unsheltered homeless as the state with the next highest number, Florida (six
percent or 12,476), despite California’s population being only twice that of
Florida.
In September Breitbart News reported the
Census Bureau showed how the state’s housing costs are pushing Americans into
poverty:
The September 10 study shows 18.2
percent of
California’s population is poor, far
above the 13
percent poverty rate in Arkansas, 16
percent in
Mississippi, and the 14.6 percent in
West Virginia.
By 2017,
for example, the government’s pro-migration policies had added 11 million
people to the state’s native population of 29 million people. The huge inflow
means that one-in-four residents are immigrants.
Numerous
studies have shown many millions of foreigners want to migrate into Americans’
society. For example, another five million Central American residents
want to migrate into the United States, according to a Gallup survey published right after the 2018
midterm elections.
Gallup also noted “three percent of
the world’s
adults — or nearly 160 million
people — say they
would like to move to the U.S.” NEIL
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California's poverty rate is worse than Alabama &
Mississippi, says Census Bureau. The major cause of this huge change is
immigration policy which spikes housing costs & shrinks wages -- and delivers
huge gains for investors in real-estate & corp. shares. http://bit.ly/2mgvBlW
Steyer’s
promise to welcome illegals is echoed by the other investor billionaire in the
Democrats’ primary, Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. In January,
he promised to make illegals comfortable with Americans’ money, telling the San Diego
Union-Tribune :
Well, it’s a no brainer. You give
[a] pathway to
citizenship to 11 million people.
We’re not going
to deport them anyways, it’s
outrageous. If you
look in New York City, we make sure
that people
felt comfortable, regardless of
their immigration
status, to come and get city
services. I was always
determined that they would not be afraid to come. Somebody could need like
life-threatening things and does not get medical care. This is not a game.
You’ve got to make sure that they’re okay.
Housing
costs in Bloomberg’s New York are very high because it has huge populations of illegal and legal
immigrants. The
result is that it has a homeless population of roughly 92,000, and also the
nation’s highest rate of homelessness, at 46 homeless
for every 10,000 people.
High
housing costs also make it difficult for Americans to move into towns and
cities that have better-paying jobs, according to a 2017 study about the rising wealth gap in the United States. Americans “are frozen where
they live,” said Tom Donohue, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at a
January 9 meeting.
But
nearly all of the Democrats in the 2020 election have called for more migrants
— without showing any concern for the impact on Americans’ housing costs.
“We could afford to take in a
heartbeat another two million people,” Joe Biden told Democrats at an
August event in Des Moines, Iowa. “The idea
that a country of 330 million
people is cannot
absorb people who are in desperate
need … is
absolutely bizarre … I
would also move to
increase the total number of
immigrants able to
come to the United States.”
Sen.
Elizabeth Warren’s immigration plan , for example, is titled “A Fair and
Welcoming Immigration System.” It says :
We need
expanded legal immigration that will grow our economy, reunite families, and
meet our labor market demands … s president, I will immediately issue
guidance to end criminal prosecutions for simple administrative immigration
violations … As President, I’ll issue guidance ensuring that detention is
only used where it is actually necessary because an individual poses a flight
or safety risk … I’ll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and
ramping up to at least 175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
The
impact of federal immigration policy on Americans’ housing costs is taboo among
establishment reporters. But those costs were touted by a group of investors
lobbying Congress to raise housing prices by importing more immigrants. A booklet
by 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 … As a
result, a shrinking population will lead to falling prices and a deteriorating,
vacancy-plagued housing stock that may take generations to clear
The
potential for skilled immigrants to boost local housing markets is clear.
Notably, economist Albert Saiz (2007) found a 1% increase in population from
immigration causes housing rents and house prices in U.S. cities to rise
commensurately, by 1%
On
January 9, Donohue noted New Yorkers blocked the plan by Amazon and the city
government to build a new corporate headquarters in the city. The residents
protested the development plan partly because it would have driven up rents and
housing costs, said Donohue. “It is a very potent issue,” he observed.
A lobbying group for
investors admits mass migration helps investors in major coastal cities but
'fails' Americans in heartland & rural towns. So it urges less immigration?
No - it urges more migration to spike family housing prices outside major
cities! http://bit.ly/2VCZYUt
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.
Biden, Sanders Face off in Debate Overshadowed by Virus
Washington (AFP) – Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders meet on Sunday for the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic presidential primary campaign, now overshadowed by the spread of the new coronavirus.
Both men have cancelled rallies and two state contests have been postponed in the wake of the outbreak, which has killed at least 57 Americans and upended daily life across the country.
Many states and cities have clamped down on large gatherings and closed schools, which are often used as polling places, to help contain the epidemic.
Frontrunner Biden and self-described “democratic socialist” Sanders are vying to replace President Donald Trump, who was on Saturday cleared of the COVID-19 illness by his physician after meeting with members of a Brazilian delegation who later tested positive.
They will face off for two hours from 8:00 pm (0000 GMT Monday), but Democratic officials have shifted the venue from Arizona to a TV studio in Washington DC with no live audience because of infection fears.
The debate comes ahead of key electoral contests on Tuesday in Florida, Ohio, Illinois and Arizona. Officials in all four states said they would work to make conditions safe for voters.
But Georgia delayed its primary election by nearly two months on Saturday, with state Democratic Party chairwoman Senator Nikema Williams warning that the ballot risked compromising the health and safety of voters.
A day earlier, Louisiana announced it would postpone its own primary vote by 11 weeks.
Both candidates have curtailed campaigning, cancelling rallies in Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere, and telling staffers to work from home.
Biden surge
Biden, who is reliant on the older demographic that is more at risk from the outbreak, has held online campaign events and has urged voters to look for alternative ways to cast their ballot.
“If voters are feeling healthy, not exhibiting symptoms, and don’t believe they’ve been exposed to COVID-19, please vote on Tuesday,” deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.
Sanders sounded more supportive about postponing primaries without explicitly calling for a delay.
Officials must “make sure that everybody who wants to vote has the right to vote, and that may not be the case today,” he said.
After a disastrous start, former vice president Biden has surged to the front of the race with a sweep of every state to vote in the American South so far.
Biden leads the overall race as well with 878 delegates over Sanders’ 725. To win the nomination, a candidate needs a majority of 1,991.
In a speech Wednesday, Sanders said he was winning the “ideological debate” but acknowledged that he was “losing the debate over electability” — that is, the all-important goal for many Democratic voters of finding the candidate best able to defeat Donald Trump.
The current consensus in the party points to Biden as the candidate best positioned to achieve that goal.
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