Harris Border Crisis Brings DISEASE, and Housing Crises!
9/16/2024 - Border Czar Kamala Harris
is still exhibiting an unwillingness to actually recognize two major
Crises flowing from her Open Borders policies --
DISEASE
and HOUSING---much
less to do anything about them
Consider DISEASE!
"Unknown to many Americans, this summer a major public health crisis quietly emerged in New England. Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile virus, two serious, third-world mosquito-borne diseases, have circulated in the northeastern United States, killing and hospitalizing unsuspecting Americans while spreading fear in surrounding communities.
The recent outbreaks serve as a glaring warning sign of the kinds of unintended downstream effects of the mass importation of illegal aliens from parts unknown. As individuals from at least 180 different countries enter our borders and invade our communities at the hands of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, they are bringing deadly diseases along with them.
The two mosquito-borne diseases now making the rounds in the New England region originated outside the United States. EEE has a striking fatality rate of 30 percent, while the West Nile virus is less deadly but often requires hospitalization and can cause long-term neurological symptoms. There are currently no vaccines available for either disease.
While neither disease is transmissible from human to human, the spread of the EEE virus has been attributed at least in part to recent urbanization trends, which have been significantly accelerated by the illegal immigration crisis. The 10-20 million migrants who have poured in over the last four years have brought not only EEE and West Nile, but a host of other diseases once virtually eradicated in the United States.
Reports have indicated, for instance, that illegal aliens have plagued America’s cities and communities with contagious diseases like polio, tuberculosis, measles, and mumps. As Tom Homan, former Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration, recently observed, tuberculosis “is surging again in the U.S., after being well controlled in the past, at least in part because of the large numbers of people arriving from countries where [tuberculosis] is not well-controlled.”
Tuberculosis, which spreads through the air, has a fatality rate of 50 percent when untreated—and even when treated with antibiotics, often requires up to nine months for recovery.
Between 2022 and 2023, tuberculosis cases rose by a staggering 19 percent in Santa Clara County, California, a hotbed for illegal aliens. Public data shows that thousands of illegal alien children diagnosed with tuberculosis have been released into 44 states without treatment. As of 2023, a shocking 88 percent of tuberculosis cases in the U.S. were in people born outside the country. Border states like Texas—as well as non-border states like Florida—have seen notable increases.
“The fact that the country now has tens of thousands of immigrants with untreated [tuberculosis],” Homan writes, “is a ticking time bomb for public health.”
The return of polio is significantly more disconcerting. Though many Americans are vaccinated against the disease, which spreads through person-to-person contact, it can cause paralysis for those who have not received the vaccination.
Other illegal alien-heavy urban areas like Chicago and New York have seen increases in diseases like measles, mumps, chickenpox, and whooping cough. In 2022, a year and a half into the Harris-Biden administration, a man in Rockland County, New York, was paralyzed from the disease.
To make matters worse, as one public health official put it, “When we see one case of paralytic polio, that means there are probably hundreds and hundreds of cases that are out there in the community but not diagnosed, because 75 percent of the cases are asymptomatic.”
For a political movement that prides itself on slavishly supporting the biomedical security state and shaming Americans who refuse to conform to its “expert” guidance, the irony of the public health crisis wrought by the Harris-Biden border crisis could not possibly be greater.
Perhaps nothing encapsulates this irony more profoundly than recent reports that the face of the left-wing medical industrial complex, Anthony Fauci—who has routinely ignored or otherwise downplayed the devastating consequences of the border crisis—was infected with the West Nile virus. While every person of good will wishes Fauci a full and swift recovery, Americans should see the mounting public health crisis for what it is: the latest in a long series of examples that demonstrate precisely how unserious—and oftentimes dangerous—America’s “expert” class truly is.
As Americans gear up to head to the voting booth this fall, they would do well to remember this: The very same figures who strong-armed them into taking endless COVID-19 booster shots upon threat of losing their jobs and spent years feigning outrage over unscientific “public health” protocols like lockdowns and school closures are now actively endangering their health by way of importing millions of unvetted and unvaccinated illegal aliens into their communities.
When it comes to the border crisis, it’s not just Americans’ national security that is at risk – it’s their health, too.
Aaron Flanigan is the pen name of a writer in Washington, D.C.
And as BALANCE has demonstrated MASS Legal Immigration exacerbates these CRISES as well
And the Housing Crisis Worsens:
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CIS.org demonstrates Mass Immigration is the Major Cause of our Massive Housing Shortage
August 6, 2024 6:00 am - "The housing shortage looms large as our nation faces a critical presidential election. Just last week, the National Association of Realtors released new data revealing home prices in the United States reached a record high in June 2024. It’s no wonder, then, that housing costs are a top priority for young voters.
Unfortunately, some in Washington, D.C., continue to turn a blind eye to a key factor exacerbating this crisis: Mass illegal immigration.
Houses have been in short supply since the Great Recession, when housing production steadily declined, especially the construction of “affordable” apartments, which declined by 4.7 million units from 2015-2020. However, housing demand has only increased, driving up the cost of living. As of 2024, the U.S. was short somewhere between 4 to 7 million housing units. The shortage of affordable and multifamily housing is especially severe, as multifamily construction has declined since 2021, dropping 14%. Considering that incomes have not kept pace with rising prices
Adding to this dire situation is the massive influx of illegal immigrants to the U.S. since 2021. According to a Center for Immigration Studies report, the foreign-born population has increased by 6.6 million since 2021, with 58% of this increase coming from illegal immigration. This massive population influx has increased the demand for housing, worsening the existing shortage.
While this matter has been largely ignored by both parties, former President Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick has led the way in addressing this underreported crisis. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) recently said, “It’s very hard to talk about the housing crisis in Ohio or across the country without talking about the immigration problem. When you let, let’s say, 10 million or 15 million people into the country illegally, those people all need homes.”
While population growth does raise the housing supply over time by providing more labor, new construction cannot keep pace with the increased demand caused by mass immigration. Indeed, some estimates suggest immigration may increase overall housing demand by around 500,000 units per year. As a result, housing costs and rents have seen additional increases in areas most affected by mass immigration, such as Miami and Denver, which have struggled to deal with massive influxes of migrants since 2021.
The role that immigration plays in worsening the housing crisis is especially evident in the market for multifamily housing. Forty percent of those apprehended at the southern border arrived in family units, and these families are initially housed in migrant shelters, which are often gyms or hotels. In New York City last year, two-thirds of migrants in shelters were members of family units.
When these migrants are eventually forced to leave these shelters, they often seek out affordable apartments, competing with low-income American citizens at the bottom of the housing market and raising rents for the poorest renters in the country. Such consequences reveal the injustice of mass immigration, which benefits migrants at the expense of struggling Americans.
It is true that other factors contribute to the existing housing shortage, including land-use regulation, zoning, and not-in-my-backyard attitudes, all of which make it difficult to build new housing, especially multifamily units. Nonetheless, it is simply impossible for housing construction to keep pace with the influx of millions of low-income family units pouring across the southern border.
As long as the Biden Harris administration allows unchecked illegal immigration into the country, the housing shortage will worsen, and housing costs will rise."
- CIS.org
Adding to the housing crisis is continuing Mass LEGAL Immigration averaging One Million one hundred thousand Persons PER YEAR for the last ten years!! - "24/7 Wall Street"
But the DISEASE & Housing Crises will NOT be ameliorated any time soon if Border Czar Harris" policies continue to be implemented including her encouraging "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions Status
"The new episode of the Center for Immigration Studies’ podcast, Parsing Immigration Policy, focuses on the Center’s updated map of sanctuary jurisdictions, based on data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Joining host Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center, is Jessica Vaughan, the Center’s director of policy studies, who explains her update of the map.
The update adds about 170 new sanctuary locations, mostly counties (including regional jails) as well as some cities. Some of these newly listed sanctuaries are in states that prohibit such policies, such as South Carolina, Indiana, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, and North Carolina.
Virginia, North Dakota, Nebraska, New York, and Minnesota have seen the most significant increases in sanctuary policies.
The Center's updated map is based on ICE's internal tracking, adding information from the document entitled "Detainer Acceptance Tracker – Limited and Non-Cooperative Institutions," obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. The Center’s map is a collaboration between Vaughan and multimedia director Bryan Griffith, and has been used to track sanctuaries since 2015, using ICE information and open sources.
Since then, well over 10,000 deportable criminal aliens who were arrested by local authorities for state and local crimes have been released back to the streets due to sanctuary policies, despite ICE seeking custody with a detainer, and a significant share have committed subsequent crimes. For example, in a documented eight-month period during 2014-2015, about 1,800 of 8,000 criminal aliens released by sanctuary jurisdictions were rearrested for committing 7,500 new crimes.
“It is alarming to see the continued proliferation of sanctuary policies, especially in places like Virginia,” Vaughan notes, “where ICE has had to use its scarce resources to re-arrest violent gang members and rapists in our communities who were set free by local jails, when they should have been transferred directly to ICE custody for a plane ride home.”
Vaughan continued: “Federal and state lawmakers should adopt measures to better ensure that local law enforcement agencies cooperate with ICE, and to penalize those agencies that choose not to cooperate.”
In his closing commentary, Krikorian further discusses the Democratic Party’s 2024 immigration platform introduced at the party’s convention. The platform embraces the U.S. Citizenship Act, a radical piece of legislation introduced in January 2021, that would have granted amnesty to ALL illegal immigrants in the U.S. as of January 2021 (appx 35 Million plus) and even allowed the return of many previously deported illegal immigrants. This position contrasts sharply with the Republican position on immigration enforcement, setting the stage for an unambiguous policy debate.
The Citizenship Act is NOW being pushed to Amnesty Illegals and enable them to become Voters this coming November!
Contact your Representatives to help us oppose this Act!!!!!
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