Coming to America – Illegal Immigrants Eligible For Public Housing including Obama’s illegal aunt Zeituni Onyango

The bipartisan civility police told us we weren’t supposed to talk about illegal immigration during the 2008 presidential campaign because open discussion would “alienate” swing (ie: Hispanic) voters. Is it okay now or do we only get permission when the next major open-borders disaster strikes? Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column today surveys the state of the borders — particularly the bloody chaos to our south. On a related note, a new piece by the Associated Press (yes, a surprise) reports more extensively on illegal aliens in public housing. It was a problem highlighted by Barack Obama’s illegal alien aunti Zeituni Onyango:

…[T]he U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that 29,570 people — 0.4 percent of all those in federally funded housing — are “ineligible noncitizens.” Some may be on temporary visas, such as highly educated workers or college students, but many are believed to be illegal immigrants. Frank Bean, director of the University of California, Irvine’s Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, estimates at least half of ineligible noncitizens — or about 15,000 — are illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children. Anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, making their families eligible for federal housing. The HUD tally does not offer a full picture of how many illegal immigrants are in public housing. It doesn’t include housing funded by state and local governments, where eligibility requirements vary. Massachusetts, where Obama’s aunt occupied one of about 50,000 state-funded units, doesn’t ask immigration status under a 1977 federal consent decree in a class-action lawsuit that prohibits the state from denying the benefit to illegal immigrants.

Other illegal immigrants may live in public housing without notifying authorities.

“It seems that the larger concern would be those who we don’t know about that may be in the U.S. illegally and living in federal housing, yet never risk presenting themselves to HUD,” said Jonathan Graffeo, a spokesman for Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.

Some prospective tenants and advocates of immigration restrictions are angry about U.S. citizens waiting for housing aid that some number of illegal immigrants are enjoying.
New York City has about 260,000 people in line for housing aid. Chicago recently opened its waiting list for the first time in about 10 years and collected 259,000 names in four weeks for 40,000 slots.

“As long as that waiting list includes American citizens or legal immigrants, there’s no reason an illegal alien should occupy any of that housing,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for NumbersUSA, a group that supports curbs on immigration.

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One Response to “Coming to America – Illegal Immigrants Eligible For Public Housing including Obama’s illegal aunt Zeituni Onyango”

zeezil on January 3rd, 2009 7:11 am

How stupendiously idiotic our federal government is. It is illegal to enter the country without inspection and without possesion of the proper visa. It is illegal to be in the country and holding a job. But the federal government actually doesn’t prohibit illegal immigrants from living in public housing. It’s yet another example of the divergent ways in which the government treats undocumented residents. No, you can’t get Medicaid, but you can qualify for in-state college tuition. No, you can’t get a driver’s license, but you can live in public housing. No, there are some benefits you can’t get but if any member of your household is a citizen (i.e., anchor baby) you qualify.

What the federal government should make clear, through both legislation and actions is this…if you are in the U.S. illegally, everything you do and participate in is illegal activity by virtue of you illegal presence.

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