Is it any wonder that ordinary people, from Britain to Germany, are rioting in frustration against open borders? After all, these are people who work and pay taxes – and see veterans homeless and crippled on the streets and old-age pensioners freezing to death because their pensions were cut at the same time electricity prices go through the roof, thanks to the ‘climate’ obsessions of rich elites.
And all the while, millions of illegal immigrants pour into their countries and are showered with taxpayer-funded benefits. From luxury hotels and mobile phones, to guaranteed first place in overcrowded public hospitals, grifting young men who’ve never contributed a cent to the countries whose welfare they grasp with both hands get everything for nothing.
In the US, too, while residents of flood-ravaged North Carolina were left to virtually fend for themselves, the Federal Emergency Management Agency splurges a fortune flying illegal immigrants to American cities and putting them up in luxury hotels. Had Americans been so foolish as to elect Kamala Harris, they could have opted for taxpayer-funded sex change operations, too.
Instead, they’ll just have to do with staying at swanky New York hotels, to the tune of $59 million dollars stiffed from taxpayers in just one week.
Elon Musk threatened to claw back $59 million he said the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent “last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants” – a claim that City Hall officials rebutted Monday […]
Musk’s threat could put Mayor Eric Adams in an awkward position, as Hizzoner has desperately pleaded for funding help from the federal government during the years-long migrant crisis that has cost the city $7 billion.
Well, lobster bisque and Veuve Clicquot don’t come cheap.
“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals,” continued Musk, who leads the agency tasked with cutting back on government overspending.
“A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”
The denials from NY city officials are as obviously hollow as the lies that the New York Times didn’t trouser tens of millions from the government.
Only $19 million of the $59 million that Musk highlighted in his tweet will go toward housing migrants in hotels, luxury or otherwise, officials said […]
The city has never paid luxury hotel rates for housing migrants and pointed out the money is not a disaster relief grant, officials said.
And the vast majority of the roughly 200 makeshift shelters that housed asylum seekers during the crisis weren’t luxury hotels, with the eye-grabbing exceptions being the swanky Row Hotel and Watson Hotel.
So they are putting up illegals in swanky hotels, even if they’re getting mate’s rates. And, hey, they’re only spending a third of the 60 mill on luxury accommodation.
In any case, that’s peanuts when it comes to FEMA showering money on the millions of illegals the Democrats welcomed into the US.
Elon Musk is targeting what he says is out-of-control spending by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on migrants.
He has plenty of places to start. Federal spending on migrants skyrocketed under President Joe Biden, often in obscure ways.
There’s FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program, for a start, not to mention Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan (which in fact ‘rescues’ non-Americans at Americans’ expense). Separate to the EFSP is EFSP-H.
Already a money pit, this is where things start getting ridiculous.
With millions of migrants flooding over the border, by 2023 the ESFP-H line item had morphed into the FEMA Shelter and Services Program […] Some $363.8 million was made available for SSP in FY 2023, broken up into two tranches, one of more than $291 million and a second of $77.3 million-plus.
Beginning in April 2024, that was increased to $640.9 million, administered through two separate programs […]
When you hear critics say that the Biden-Harris FEMA has “spent more than $1.4 billion since the fall of 2022 to address the migrant crisis,” you’ll know where the figures are coming from.
What began as a $30 million allocation to solve a temporary problem in 2019 now has its own program, its own bureaucracy and its own $640 million budget.
What was it Ronald Reagan said about a ‘temporary government programme’?
