Is That REALLY a Homeless Shelter for Needy Americans or…Illegal Alien Housing?
June 13, 2024
Promoting open border and amnesty policies is increasingly tricky business for the left. After all, illegal immigration is a major issue for most voters, a concern that’s apparently deepening as shown by a new CBS News poll revealing that 62 percent of Americans support, “in principle, a new government program to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.”
Mindful of mounting public resistance and hoping to soften it, mass immigration advocates long ago modified their tactics by conflating legal and illegal immigration, and euphemizing the term “illegal alien” with an assortment of mushy alternatives – “undocumented immigrant,” “undocumented worker,” and more recently, “New American.” Now, a new sleight-of-hand is emerging in the form of local ordinances that permit private groups to create shelters for “homeless people” when in fact, they are designed to become overflow shelters for illegal aliens – further displacing legitimately needy Americans.
It’s deceptive and offensive. According to a U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report, 650,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12 percent increase from 2022. HUD also reports nearly 40,000 veterans are living on the streets, a 7.4 percent increase from 2022 to 2023. Substance abuse, escalating home prices and soaring mortgage rates, inflation, and a shortage of housing are contributing factors. Hundreds of thousands of Americans need a helping hand to turn their lives around. Short-term and affordable housing might offer that opportunity, but they can’t find it; down-and-out Americans are foreclosed by migrants dominating occupancy at taxpayer-supported shelters and housing units.
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/06/13/really-homeless-shelter-needy-americans-orillegal-alien-housing
