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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 thats 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 needyAmericans.

Its 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 cant find it; down-and-out Americans are foreclosed by migrants dominating occupancy at taxpayer-supported shelters and housingunits.

Not surprisingly, most of those municipalities have sanctuary policies, ironically peddled as compassionate when originally put in place, but which now displace Americancitizens.

Westbrook, Maine, is one such example. The city resides within Cumberland Countyheartily endorsing its sanctuary policiesand lays adjacent to the City of Portland which has become the migrant hub of Northern New England. As a result, Westbrook is suffering collateral impact from its neighboring city, and from its own illegal alien welcoming policies. Its recent solution to large numbers of loitering migrants has been to pass an ordinance that allows private groups to create homeless shelters in empty buildings, offices, churches, and single family homes that can operate a shelter as long as they dont exceed 12 people.

What could possibly gowrong?

The recent City Council debate over the ordinance was a farce, sugar-coated with hoorays for community spirit and welcoming neighborhoods, while lacking of any substantive discussion of the citys illegal alien sanctuary policies that have created a migrant housing shortage. Jennie Franceschi, Westbrooks director of planning and code enforcement, glossed over concerns about existing zoning requirements, property values, and public safety issues inherent in creating ad hoc migrant shelters by explaining just how simple everything will be under the new ordinance: A church that has a room that they utilize for the purposes of baked bean suppers or educational or social needs could then take that room and make it into a shelter if the needs of the community necessitatedit.

While the City Council avoided mentioning the word migrants in their push to justify more shelters, a few local residents did recognize the elephant in the room. Westbrook resident Martin Malia, sent an email that was read during the hearing expressing concern that the new ordinance would attract more migrants, and criticized the measure for the potential tax burden it could impose on property owners in the city. I do not believe the homeless shelter proposal is beneficial to the property taxpayers and residents of the city of Westbrook. Last year, the property taxpayers were burdened with an 8.8 percent tax increase. He added the current proposal would result in a cumulative hike property taxes of 11.4percent.

Mr. Malia knows something local leaders know, but wont widely acknowledge: 90 to 95 percent of those applying for general welfare assistanceincluding housingin Westbrook aremigrants.

Dubious that anyone but illegal aliens will occupy the new shelters, Malia continued while offering a perfect description of how sanctuary policies incentivize endless flows of migrants. Word will soon spread that resources are available in Westbrook. Then the calls for shelter expansion will ensue to meet thedemand.

Westbrook citizens can count onthat.

Despite lack of transparency, the new semantics are clear: For mass immigration advocates, homelessness and efforts to address it really mean accommodating and expanding illegal immigration, hiding that agenda, and tossing aside the needs of destituteAmericans.

Read more from the original source:
Is That REALLY a Homeless Shelter for Needy Americans orIllegal Alien Housing? | FAIRUS.org - Federation for American Immigration Reform