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New Haven Mayor Elicker Launches New Guide That Specifically Highlights Resources Available To Illegal Immigrants

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker, Police Chief Karl Jacobson and more than a dozen town officials attended a press conference at the Atwater Senior Center in the Fair Haven section of the city yesterday, another in a series of meetings about “protecting” immigrants — legal and illegal — from the incoming Trump Administration.

Representatives from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s office were in attendance, too.

It’s worth reminding that DeLauro just voted AGAINST the “Preventing Violence Against Women By Illegal Aliens Act” earlier this week.

As in other meetings, Elicker reminded folks that New Haven is a sanctuary city, or as he calls it a “welcoming city” for everyone, “no matter what your document status is.”

“New Haven has been a welcoming city for decades, and decades, and decades,” Elicker boasted, at times speaking in Spanish to the crowd. “We are a city of immigrants.”

“We are here today to make it abundantly clear that when we confront challenges, we do it together … and we all stand united today,” he said.

During the meeting, Elicker announced that the city had developed a guide to help new residents, including illegal immigrants, so they can better navigate their arrival in New Haven.

Print copies of the “Resource Guide for New Residents” are available in English and Spanish.

The digital versions can be found on the city website at newhavenct.gov/welcome.

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SNAP recipients may be barred from junk food purchases under new House GOP bill

House Republicans are eyeing new limits on food stamps driven by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., is leading “The Healthy SNAP Act” to bar most junk foods from being eligible for purchase under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), he first told Fox News Digital.

“President Trump has been given a mandate by the majority of Americans to Make America Healthy Again, and those in his administration, like RFK Jr. and Senator Marco Rubio, have directly advocated for eliminating junk food purchases with SNAP,” Brecheen told Fox News Digital.

“If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that’s up to them. But what we’re saying is, don’t ask the taxpayer to pay for it and then also expect the taxpayer to pick up the tab for the resulting health consequences.”

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Waste of the Day: Ineligible New Yorkers on Medicaid Cost $20 Billion

An estimated 3 million New Yorkers on Medicaid or the state-run Essential Plan don’t have incomes low enough to be using the programs, according to a new report from the nonprofit Empire Center for Public Policy.

Key facts: New York is projected to spend $113 billion on the two programs in 2025, but one-third of enrollees should not be eligible.

Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that only 5.5 million New Yorkers had incomes low enough to qualify for coverage last year. But there were 8.5 million people using the state’s health insurance.

That’s especially surprising given that the Essential Plan — established under the Affordable Care Act in 2015 — allows families living at 250% above the poverty level to enroll. No other plan in the U.S. is that generous, according to the Empire Center.

The average nondisabled adult costs the programs $6,600 to cover. At that rate, the Empire Center estimates taxpayers spend $20 billion each year to cover the 3 million people who should not qualify. The expense is split between the state and federal government.

Roughly 44% of New Yorkers use either Medicaid or the Essential Plan, including 60% of those in New York City. No other state has more than 37% enrollment in similar plans, the Empire Center found.

In the last 10 years, 3.7 million new people signed up for the two plans. But the number of uninsured people in New York only dropped by 1.2 million, “a sign that most new sign-ups were people who otherwise would have been insured elsewhere,” the Empire Center said.

New York spends 28% of its budget on health insurance each year.

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NYC Ends Controversial Taxpayers-Funded Prepaid Debit Card Program for Illegal Immigrants

Mayor Eric Adams has announced the end of a controversial taxpayer-funded initiative distributing pre-paid debit cards to illegal immigrants.

The program, which was initially launched as a pilot earlier this year with a $53 million budget aimed to assist around 3,000 illegal immigrants and was set to expand its reach to over 7,300 individuals within the next half-year, will not see its contract renewed after January 2025.

The debit card initiative was designed to enable illegal immigrant families, temporarily housed in upscale hotels like the Roosevelt Hotel, to buy their “groceries and baby supplies” instead of receiving predetermined food services.

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The Largest Study Ever On UBI Was Just Conducted, And…

In the 2020 election, an interesting candidate made his way onto the scene for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Andrew Yang. Yang made a splash in particular for his promise to give everyone $1,000.

Andrew Yang’s campaign strategy took a similar approach to Trump’s 2016 campaign in hyper-focusing on a single issue. For Trump, the single issue was immigration. For Yang, that issue was universal basic income (UBI).

Yang’s version of UBI was alluring in its simplicity. Every person in the country would receive a nice, round $1,000 per month. It didn’t matter if you were rich or poor, old or young. A vote for Yang was a vote for cash.

Many from his own party denounced the idea of giving rich people $1,000 per month. But Yang held strong to the payment being universal. By making sure every person gets $1,000, you avoid some incentive issues and the bureaucracy that accompanies typical welfare programs.

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Florida Migrants Receiving Full Medical Care – Gratis

While traveling in an Uber from Hallendale Beach to the Fort Lauderdale airport this week, I was fascinated by a series of phone conversations my driver had during the ride.

The man did not speak much English, but was fluent in Spanish.

I asked him where he was from – he said recently from Venezuela. He was listening to Spanish radio. He was young, late twenties, and in shape, very dark skinned, in good health.

The phone attached to ‘hands free’ mode rang in the car and the man answered. On the other end of the line, was what I would call an adult female, white, and highly educated. She was acting very ‘compassionate’, and you could tell she believed she was virtuous and ‘doing the right thing’.

She obviously worked for some progressive NGO and had been doing what she was doing for this NGO for some time – she seemed ‘experienced’.

She was calling to confirm the man for an appointment in south Florida for magnetic resonance imaging, otherwise known as an MRI.

This is an expensive medical procedure to scan a portion of a body and obtain internal images, to look for medical problems.

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Three key methods used by the Biden/Harris regime to facilitate the trafficking of migrant beggars

First off, let’s highlight the potential scale of demand for the federal, state, city and local benefit system in the US.

From 14 years ago:

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs (youtube.com)

“Immigration – Global humanitarian reasons for current U.S. immigration are tested in this updated version of immigration author and journalist Roy Beck’s colorful presentation of data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau. The 1996 version of this immigration gumballs presentation has been one of the most viewed immigration policy presentations on the internet.”

3 billion people globally, back then, who make less than 2 bucks a day. The world population was 7 billion back then, it is now 8 billion.

The UN has played its part in trafficking people from the third world into the US, the EU and the UK.

The UN has the same level of expertise as any group of a few thousand people who have a different view and who seek to impose the will of that group onto the entire world. No elections required, just opinions and a willingness to suffer the indignity of diplomatic immunity, business class flights, food and hotel accommodation in the richest cities/resorts of the world.

“Immigration can never be an effective or significant way to help the suffering of the people of the world”.

The “poor, huddled masses” of the world need to be helped where they live, not by brining them into the US. By trafficking them here, these people desert their home countries and ay solutions they might contribute to and, instead, impoverish the areas where they surface.

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Temporary Protected Status For Illegal Immigrants

As an illegal immigrant, if you enter the US under one of the countries deemed to be hostile, you may apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).  This status allows an illegal immigrant from specific countries to file for TPS as a safety precaution given their own country is in turmoil.  It is a temporary status. It does not confer on them a green card, or a legal status, in essence they are in limbo.   The status must be updated regularly as circumstances in their country change.   

This is what the Haitians coming across the border illegally are directed to do by immigration.  They are NOT legal.  They are ‘temporary’ illegals living under a protected status.

During this temporary stay, the US Government provides:  Supplemental Security Income, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance, the women, infants and children program, free school lunches, subsidized housing, and Medicaid.

The government estimates of the number of persons in the US not legal but protected ranges between 850,000 to 1.2 million.   The fact that the Agency has no idea how many – SHOULD be a bit worrisome.  There is currently an additional 450,000+ applicants awaiting the approval of their TPS applications.

When the ‘government’ doles these freebies and charity out – they don’t ask permission from The People – they make a unilateral decision and voila your money is Gone Baby Gone.

This is the argument being levied by democrats regarding Springfield Ohio.  The Haitians are there legally via the TPS, but they are NOT legal residents – they can’t buy homes, cars, or anything else that would benefit the economy.  When immigration finds them employment they are paid minimum wage, not union wages, and the government subsidizes the EMPLOYER to hire them.  More associated taxpayer costs.   More US unemployment.

This status was added to the Immigration Act in 1990 within the Department of Homeland Security under Big Daddy Bush.   In 2021, the courts reiterated that if the person came into the country illegally but was given TPS status, they could not apply for permanent residency.

Currently there are numerous lawsuits in US Courts regarding HHS determination that some country’s should be removed from the designation particularly in California.   Given the requirement for continued renewal, California is arguing the renewal should be automatic.

When arguing the illegal immigration status, the typical democrat response is to assert the tax revenue that is generated.    According to Reuters, the cost of illegal immigration is $151 billion annually.  According to a study from IDEP, illegals contribute $11.7 billion in tax revenue.  Roughly 50% of them pay no taxes.  Of course, these numbers are statistical estimates/guesses because the government doesn’t actually account for people or money in real time.

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Migrant Invaders Accused Of Crimes Can Still Receive Taxpayer-Funded Shelters in New York City

Earlier this month, New York City Eric Adams’ administration admitted that criminal migrant invaders aren’t exempt from receiving taxpayer-subsidized shelters.

“We don’t say that [you] can’t come back into the shelter because you’ve gotten arrested,” stated Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom during Adams’ weekly press conference in City Hall.

The revelation came after a New York Post report that discovered migrants have been overwhelming the criminal-justice system, with one Manhattan cop estimated that “about 75%” of arrests in Midtown are migrants, mostly for cases involving robberies, assaults, domestic incidents and selling counterfeit items.

“I’m sure that there’s a lot of arrests that have come from a lot of different groups that come here, especially groups that might not be able to work,” Williams-Isom added.

On top of that, she revealed that the city government is not keeping tabs on the arrest of migrants. Due to the sanctuary status of NYC, the New York Police Department is banned from inquiring suspects about their immigration status

After being badgered a bit about the alarming number of migrant arrests, Adams’ Chief of Staff Camille Joseph Varlack stated that although suspects can return to city shelters, they would lose housing privileges if they broke a code of conduct.

However, the code is limited only to incidents taking place inside the shelters. Alleged criminal activity that occurs elsewhere apparently has no impact on migrant invaders’ eligibility to receive city housing, per a review of the code of conduct by The New York Post.

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HUD Explores Cash over Housing Vouchers

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is toying with the idea of providing American renters cash aid instead of vouchers. Current vouchers only demand that tenants pay 30% of their income on rent, while the US taxpayers foot the rest of the bill. The department says it is still too difficult for would-be tenants to use these vouchers and would like to provide them with cash to use as they see fit.

Pilot programs are appearing across America. Philadelphia swapped out vouchers with cash for 300 renters across the city. Since the government is incapable of efficiently running these smaller programs, the waitlist for housing vouchers in Philadelphia overwhelmed the city to the point that it was shut down for a decade. Those in the pilot program earn under 50% of the local median income with a child under the age of 15. Not only is their portion of rent reduced to 30% of income, but the government has provided them with debit cards to cover the additional portion of rent. Technically, they can spend it however they see fit.

Housing development agencies say cash is preferable to vouchers as landlords bypass discrimination laws and are more likely to reject potential tenants who use government vouchers. If someone has a business, does it not make more sense that they would be hesitant to partner with someone who they know cannot pay? Advocates believe “red tape” items like unit inspections are causing delays. Advocates also insist that providing cash will directly will help these people move to safer neighborhoods, neighborhoods where the residents work and pay their share of taxes into the system. These people insist that everything should be done to provide for those who remain underemployed or underemployed without addressing the root problem.

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