Posted on 03/01/2020 8:36:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Just before Christmas last year, Jill Biden figuratively stepped over the huddled masses of homeless on the streets of America, and headed across the border for a high-profile campaign photo-op. Her destination was a camp for migrants who had entered the US illegally and were awaiting adjudication of their cases in Mexico.
Twelve thousand children are homeless here in California, and our homeless population has risen to 151,000. Last year, California was single-handedly responsible for the national increase in homelessness.
Homeless camp on a street in front of a school in Los Angeles (YouTube screen grab)
Adjusted for cost of living, Census Bureau data show that California is also by far the highest-poverty state in the nation.
But it was not to the tired and poor in California that the Biden campaign sent its emissary for a high-profile Christmas-season media event.
As a private citizen, Jill Biden unquestionably has the right to choose the beneficiaries of her charity. But this was no private outing, this was a campaign event. Clearly, the Biden campaign had calculated that bypassing America’s needy in favor of a Lady Bountiful appearance across the border would be a winning campaign strategy.
In the same vein, California’s legislature recently imposed a state penalty on residents who cannot afford the Affordable Care Act’s sky-high premiums, while approving free health care for young adult immigrants who lack legal status. My home county of Santa Clara has set aside millions for legal services for unauthorized immigrants, while the homeless shiver under our freeway underpasses, and food banks send out pleas for donations.
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Not to mention the stupid, the lazy, and the ignorant.
“young adult immigrants who lack legal status”
Translation: Illegal aliens.
This is an effective reasoning behind prohibiting assistance to illegal immigrants. She makes the interesting observation that many people born here don’t pick up on that reasoning but that she — who has lived here about 40 years — is here by choice and not by chance. As someone who lived in different countries growing up (not my choice), I can see that.
Flimsey Grahamnesty wants to give them amnesty.
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