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Pelosi praises CA bill giving illegal migrants money to buy homes: 'American dream' 'available to more people' | Fox News

  

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Via:  texan1211  •  4 months ago  •  15 comments

By:   Joseph Wulfsohn (Fox News)

Pelosi praises CA bill giving illegal migrants money to buy homes: 'American dream' 'available to more people' | Fox News
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., offered praise to a controversial bill advancing in her home state during her appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher."

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San Diego Board of Supervisors' Jim Desmond argues the state cannot afford to expand the interest-free home loans program to illegal immigrants.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appeared to express support for her state's controversial bill that would provide financial aid for illegal immigrants to buy homes.

California lawmakers passed AB 1840, which would require the California Housing Finance Authority's home purchase assistance program, or California Dream for All Program, to include undocumented migrants, meaning those seeking to become first-time homeowners would be eligible for taxpayer loans.

During the same discussion, the former Speaker advocated for making these illegal immigrants legal: "What I would like to do is move them to documented. One of the best things we can do for our economy is pass comprehensive immigration reform."

During Friday's appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher," Pelosi was asked to react to the bill's passing.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed support for her state's controversial bill that would allow illegal immigrants to receive money to buy homes.(Screenshot/HBO)

"That's kind of a different place than the Democratic Party used to be on immigration, is it not?" host Bill Maher asked.

"Well, let me just say, immigration had always been a bipartisan issue," Pelosi responded.

"But not free housing," Maher interjected.

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"Well, that's not free housing. It's the American Dream being available to more people," Pelosi pushed back. "But understand this about immigration. The best speech when immigration was by President Ronald Reagan. 'This is the last speech I will make as President of the United States. I want to communicate a message to the country I love.' And he talked about the Statue of Liberty and the Beacon of Hope it is to the world and what America was preeminent to the world because our door was always open. And we will cease to be preeminent when we shut the door."

Pelosi described California's controversial bill as "the American Dream being available to more people."(Screenshot/HBO)

"Now, I don't do justice to the Great Communicator. Google it. It's a fabulous speech, and George Herbert Walker Bush continued in that respect for the diversity of America and the rest. California is always in the lead. Maybe others will follow that lead, but that's up to those states. But we are very blessed here with beautiful diversity," she continued.

"So you'd vote for this law?" Maher then asked.

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"Well, I'm not familiar with exactly what that is, but making the American dream of homeownership available to all people is something we have to do for people who are here now," Pelosi said.

"This is before you're a citizen. This is for the undocumented," Maher stressed.

"Well, what I would like to do is move them to documented," Pelosi responded, adding "One of the best things we can do for our economy is pass comprehensive immigration reform."

California lawmakers passed AB 1840, which would require the California Housing Finance Authority's home purchase assistance program, or California Dream for All Program, to include undocumented migrants.(Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for National Urban League)

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GregTx
Professor Guide
3  GregTx    4 months ago
"This is before you're a citizen. This is for the undocumented," Maher stressed.

So polite....

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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3.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  GregTx @3    4 months ago

It's only $150,000.

 
 
 
GregTx
Professor Guide
3.1.1  GregTx  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @3.1    4 months ago

Right? Personally, I would be really stoked as a Californian to think maybe my tax dollars helped that Venezuelan gang leader get his first home in the US.....

/s  in case it's needed 

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
4  charger 383    4 months ago

Now taxpayers have to build the Feral Cats houses!  

 
 
 
Nerm_L
Professor Expert
5  Nerm_L    4 months ago

Meanwhile, in other forgotten news, there is this:  

In typical kick-the-can thinking, Pelosi is advocating throwing baskets of cash around to avoid dealing with the underlying problem.  You know, the government really could reclaim and repurpose closed state and Federal government property to provide housing in a more efficient and less costly manner.  But, no doubt, some leftie prosecutor would claim the government is building internment camps just to score political points.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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6  Buzz of the Orient    4 months ago

Maybe the trick to prevent potential immigrants from crowding America's borders is to stop telling the world that America is the greatest nation in the world, the land of opportunity, God's blessed Home of the Brave and Land of the Free where the streets are paved with gold and instead tell the world about America having the biggest incarceration rate in the world, the magnitude of the gun violence and mass gun murders and the huge political divisiveness, the cost of healthcare that bankrupts many, and the climate problems such as the multiple hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires, and show them photos of the people sleeping on the streets and under bridges.   Do the right thing for a change and I bet the immigration pressure would be reduced considerably.

 
 

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