Illegal Aliens to Get Mortgage Assistance

Illegal alien homeowners can apply for mortgage relief under President Obama’s $275 billion mortgage assistance plan. This is the word from SaveMyHomeUSA, a group working with the government to help homeowners modify home loans they are having trouble repaying.

Said Chad Buchanan, a manager of that group, in an interview with WorldNet Daily (2/24/09), “We don’t target or go after illegal immigrant customers. But if an illegal immigrant owns a home legally, we could try to help them under our program.” He added, “A lot of mortgage modifiers out there never ask about the legal immigration status of the homeowner, and we do not ask either. This is the first time I’ve had that question asked. All we are looking to do is to modify the current note, regardless what the legal status of the client is.”

According to the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), approximately one million households in the U.S. headed by illegal aliens had acquired mortgages, as of 2007. A spokesman for CIS noted that “in most cases” mortgage lenders accepted that the taxpayer ID or the Mexican Matricula Consular card that illegal aliens often use to conduct business.

In point of fact, prior to the collapse of the housing bubble, numerous lenders and realtors encouraged illegal aliens and other “subprime” candidates to take out home loans they probably couldn’t pay back. This irresponsible behavior, both on the part of lenders and borrowers, played a significant role in creating the economic downturn we suffer today.

Now the Obama Administration is going subsidize the illegal aliens who broke our laws to come here and decided to live beyond their means. As another spokesman for SaveMyHomeUSA observed, “[The government] has provided millions of dollars to help people save their homes from foreclosure.” Those people who are American citizens, thanks to the largess to illegal aliens, will have to get by with less help than they otherwise could have had.

Also assisting illegals in the president’s stimulus bill is no requirement for companies receiving stimulus funds to use the E-Verify program. It enables employers to check federal data bases to determine the legal status of their newly hired employees. Without E-Verify, estimates researcher Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, illegal liens could take as many as 300,000 of the construction jobs created by the stimulus.

Presdent Obama promised “change we need,” but with respect to illegal immigrants, he’s just offering more of the status quo: rewards for lawbreakers and second class citizenship for citizens.