Posted on 04/05/2025 4:42:40 AM PDT by cgbg
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner today issued a letter to grantees and stakeholders underscoring that federal housing assistance will no longer be granted to illegal aliens or sanctuary cities. The directive reinforces HUD programs are strictly reserved for the American people, eliminating any ambiguity in policy.
...going forward, grant agreements will include language that will require compliance with Executive Order 14218, and the Department will take steps to ensure that Federal resources are not used to support “sanctuary” policies of State and local jurisdictions that actively prevent federal authorities from deporting illegal aliens.
(Excerpt) Read more at hud.gov ...
A large portion of HUD funds have been going to sanctuary cities who have used them to give aid and comfort to illegal aliens.
This is reducing spending while fighting illegal immigration at the same time.
Well done Secretary Turner.
Who wrote the title? “Doubles down” sounds like opposition wording.
I copied and pasted the language from the HUD website.
You can verify at the link.
My bone to pick with the HUD announcement is they used the word “stakeholder”.
I hate that word.
However this is such a necessary and outstanding policy that I forgive them.
Lol.
Is somebody working there maybe not too aligned with the new administration? And possibly deserving of looking for a different job?
All of this is very good, but Congress needs to get in line to pass legislation, so it is not reversed with the our next Dem (RINO) prez.
As well, where are those mass deportations? By cherry-picking the worst first, instead of just shipping them all out, we’re setting up for 60 million illegals to stay. These are on average incredibly low-skill, and so our country, especially our working class, simply can’t thrive with them here.
HUD is not known for its talented employees.
Lol.
Fair points—but when the money stops the majority of the illegals will leave on their own.
We need to be using every tactic simultaneously.
To your general point—given the low skill level of HUD employees it probably would be wise for the White House to review all public announcements out of that agency before they are released.
The WH probably views HUD PR as a low priority.
They key point is they need to get the policy correct—which they have done.
There are massive staff cuts (50% range) planned for HUD in the next couple of months—stay tuned to this channel for further details.
:-)
No, they won’t. They’ll still have a better deal here than at home—where they need to go.
There has been a lot of anecdotes in threads here that say otherwise—where folks claim that there is a lot less folks speaking Spanish in their communities in the last few weeks.
This is like any statistics issue—tough to get totally reliable figures from unbiased sources.
That is why we should be doing “all of the above” and not worrying about what is most effective and what is least effective.
Because Spanish-speaking illegals are less obviously out and about in a neighborhood, doesn’t mean more than a droplet out of the 60-million tank has been drained.
I hope Denver is one of the first.
We could argue this all day—which would be pointless.
My view is that all measures make all other measures more effective.
—Physical deportations
—Publicity of physical deportations
—Threats of deportation
—Removing federal funds from sanctuary cities/states
—Removing federal funds from NGOs that enable illegal aliens
—Any other measures the administration takes to undercut the illegal alien industry/infrastructure
Picking them apart to figure out which is the most and which is the least effective is a college sophomore exercise—unworthy of our time imho.
You’re whistling past the US of A graveyard here IMO.
We don’t have mass deportations despite being promised mass deportations.
Mass deportations will come when employers face jail time for employing illegals and the US stops remittances back to the illegals home countries. They will self deport. Because, as bad as Honduras is, its still better that the street of Chicago.
You may be correct. I honestly don’t know if all these efforts will be successful.
It may be mass deportations are the best answer—and I have no problem with that.
Good point—I should have had that in my tactics list.
Work has to be shut off for them, because they make approximately 10x more here for their labor—and of course anchor babies.
Michael Yon has suggested that they won’t be serious about deportations until they load up ships instead of planes.
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