Thread: Loophole Angers Illegal Immigration Foes

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Loophole Angers Illegal Immigration Foes

POSTED: 9:17 pm MST January 9, 2009
UPDATED: 8:54 am MST January 10, 2009

PHOENIX -- A loophole in federal law is enabling hundreds of illegal immigrants to live in homes subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, while thousands of others linger on waiting lists to get into those same units.

Those waiting lists are so long that most of them have been frozen for years, meaning people can't even submit an application for public housing. In Arizona, hundreds of those units are occupied by people who aren't even U.S. citizens.

The Salazar family has lived in a four-bedroom Phoenix public housing apartment for the past six years -- all 10 of them.

Their rent is only $150 a month and subsidized by the U.S. government, even though both parents are illegal immigrants from Mexico.

"They were not going to give it to my mom because she wasn't born here, but then they said, 'Yeah, since you have a U.S. born person,' she was able to get it," said the couple's 14-year-old daughter Miriam.

Federal law dictates that as long as one member of the family is in the U.S. legally, the rest of the family can join them in public housing, even though the government only subsidizes the legal residents.

The Salazars fit the typical scenario -- parents here illegally, who have had children on American soil.

"It's deplorable, just deplorable," said Michelle Dallacroce, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration. She said she is outraged that her tax dollars are being used this way

"There are waiting lists right now with American families trying to get into public housing and they are being turned away because illegal aliens are living in public housing," she said.

In Arizona there are 7,000 public housing units, and in Phoenix alone, HUD says there are almost 16,000 families on its waiting list. HUD said statewide 622 units are currently housing illegal immigrants, only 9 percent of its total.

Yet it only took CBS 5 News five minutes in one Phoenix project to find two families who fit the bill -- the Salazars, and even their next-door neighbors, illegal immigrants from Guatemala, with three American-born children.

"Where is INS?" Dallacroce said. "Where is our government? Where are they?"

Not one government agency CBS 5 News contacted would go on camera. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services declined and said it's not its job to be critical of other federal agencies. And even HUD would only issue a statement via e-mail, saying, "HUD only provides subsidy for individuals with legal status."
http://www.kpho.com/news/18451472/detai ... o&psp=news

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"I ran the search tool looking for the link on the public housing thread but after ending up going back 14 pages through all the threads I gave up. If someone has that link available would you post it as related? Thanks!"
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It was even hard for me to find, and it was my post.

"MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS LIVE IN PUBLIC HOUSING"

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-827522-.html#827522

Thanks John Doe2!

Originally Posted by cvangel

Federal law dictates that as long as one member of the family is in the U.S. legally, the rest of the family can join them in public housing, even though the government only subsidizes the legal residents.

But if you are an American citizen who works hard all of his life, pays his taxes, obeys the law and then loses everything to the Bush Depression, you are told that you do not satisfy the "conditions" for qualifying for government housing aid.

The Liberals have and continue to make a complete mess of what was once a fine and strong country.

Originally Posted by millere

Originally Posted by cvangel

Federal law dictates that as long as one member of the family is in the U.S. legally, the rest of the family can join them in public housing, even though the government only subsidizes the legal residents.

But if you are an American citizen who works hard all of his life, pays his taxes, obeys the law and then loses everything to the Bush Depression, you are told that you do not satisfy the "conditions" for qualifying for government housing aid.

The Liberals have and continue to make a complete mess of what was once a fine and strong country.

The Conservatives are as much to blame for this mess as anyone else.
Keep in mind that it was Reagan who gave amnesty to more than 3 MILLION illegal aliens in 1986,
which Mexico took as an invitation to send all of it's poor uneducated people here,
and Bush and McCain both wanted to give all of them amnesty last year, just like Obama, Biden, Clinton, Kennedy, etc.

Well now ICE know's that the parents are illegal, so send the parents back to Mexico with the kids and give the apartment to an American citizen.

Originally Posted by wmarincic

Well now ICE know's that the parents are illegal, so send the parents back to Mexico with the kids and give the apartment to an American citizen.

Good idea but there are some problems.
International law says that no country can deport it's own citizens and under current U.S. law the anchor babies are U.S. citizens.
The parents can take the kid with them, but only if they want too.
Also, not all illegal aliens are from Mexico, only about half of all illegal aliens in the U.S. are from Mexico.
There are illegal aliens, with anchor babies, here from every country in the world, and we should send all of them home too.

"There are waiting lists right now with American families trying to get into public housing and they are being turned away because illegal aliens are living in public housing," she said.

This gives me mixed emotions of anger and saddness. So many things are upside down and inside out anymore. With these worsening economic conditions I am so worried for so many of my fellow Americans.

Originally Posted by jean

"There are waiting lists right now with American families trying to get into public housing and they are being turned away because illegal aliens are living in public housing," she said.

This gives me mixed emotions of anger and saddness. So many things are upside down and inside out anymore. With these worsening economic conditions I am so worried for so many of my fellow Americans.

Yes. Especially the senior citizens who were hurt by the stock market and housing crashes. Many of them can't return to work to help make up what they lost and now Obama is talking about messing with Social Security.

"Battling the deficit requires attention to Social Security and Medicare spending, two entitlement programs that are growing rapidly as the Baby Boom generation ages. Obama said his team will address entitlement spending when it submits its first budget in February."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... ents_N.htm

Those waiting lists are so long that most of them have been frozen for years, meaning people can't even submit an application for public housing. In Arizona, hundreds of those units are occupied by people who aren't even U.S. citizens.

This is shameful and disgraceful. American citizens should be #1 priority. These anchor babies have to go. It is ruining America. The 14th amendment needs to be explained to the idiots who interpret the law. What a huge difference it would make to have all of these anchor babies and their illegal alien parents deported.