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markomalley
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This insightful editorial appeared, believe it or not, in the Boston Globe:
So this is not intended to be some sort of rant about Obama and I’d appreciate you keeping it out of that context in this thread. This is not a generalized rant about illegal aliens, either. I’ll even, for the purpose of this discussion, stipulate that if somebody comes here to work, they should be allowed to work one way or the other.
But the question I’ve got is, if there is a waiting list for subsidized housing, why are **illegal **aliens allowed to reside in housing units when there is a waiting list of legal aliens and citizens? Something just doesn’t seem quite right to me there.
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S aunt — Zeituni Onyango — lives in a 68-unit public housing complex for the elderly and disabled within walking distance of Boston Harbor beaches, a medical center, and lots of stores in South Boston. Broadly speaking, though, she lives in the gap between the state’s public housing policy and common sense.
In a WBZ-TV interview last week, Onyango, 58, came across as an ungrateful free-loader. Until May, when she was granted asylum by a judge, the native of Kenya had been living in Boston illegally for about six years courtesy of Massachusetts taxpayers. Yet Onyango managed to say with a straight face that “I did not take any advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me.’’ As for living expenses, Onyango said her sustenance “comes from heaven.’’ And a monthly disability check.
The author of this piece, Lawrence Harmon, points out a little known factoid about public housing. Those units that are Federally subsidized require proof of legal residence in this country; however, those that are merely State subsidized have no such provision. Interestingly, there are about 20,000 families on a waiting list for the 14,000 subsidized housing units in Boston, alone.In a WBZ-TV interview last week, Onyango, 58, came across as an ungrateful free-loader. Until May, when she was granted asylum by a judge, the native of Kenya had been living in Boston illegally for about six years courtesy of Massachusetts taxpayers. Yet Onyango managed to say with a straight face that “I did not take any advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me.’’ As for living expenses, Onyango said her sustenance “comes from heaven.’’ And a monthly disability check.
So this is not intended to be some sort of rant about Obama and I’d appreciate you keeping it out of that context in this thread. This is not a generalized rant about illegal aliens, either. I’ll even, for the purpose of this discussion, stipulate that if somebody comes here to work, they should be allowed to work one way or the other.
But the question I’ve got is, if there is a waiting list for subsidized housing, why are **illegal **aliens allowed to reside in housing units when there is a waiting list of legal aliens and citizens? Something just doesn’t seem quite right to me there.