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Trump Stops Taxpayer-Backed Mortgages for Illegal Aliens


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2019 Mar 28, 7:08am   1,979 views  15 comments

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When Barack Obama implemented his unilateral amnesty for illegal aliens who claimed to have entered this country before the age of sixteen, the illegally amnestied illegals qualified for many benefits.

One of these were FHA loans.

FHA loans are government-backed mortgages meant for poorer Americans unable to qualify for normal mortgages. Democrat abuse of the FHA helped lead to the Great Recession and in the years afterward, FHA insured loans hit losses of $70 billion. By 2012, the FHA was $16 billion in the hole and had to be bailed out. The delinquency rate for FHA loans is still more than three times higher than normal loans, and depending on the period, have hovered between 8% and 14%. Time to bring in the illegal aliens.

When Obama illegally implemented DACA, a program exempting certain illegal aliens from government action, they were also allowed to apply for FHA loans. How many illegal aliens obtained FHA loans?

In December, a letter from three Senate Democrats claimed that HUD barred “approximately 800,000 individuals approved for DACA from FHA-insured mortgage loans”. This refers to the total number of DACA illegal aliens and it’s unknown how many of them have obtained FHA loans in past years.

Ellie Mae’s millennial tracker estimated that the average size of an FHA loan to millennials is $186,454. Potential exposure to illegal alien mortgages could then climb as improbably high as $150 billion.

It’s unknown how many illegal aliens have taken out FHA loans, but some media stories have cited loan officers for whom illegal alien FHA loans represent a significant percentage of their business.

The Trump administration has applied the brakes to this avalanche of taxpayer-insured mortgages to illegal aliens. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had begun notifying lenders that the FHA was no longer in the illegal alien mortgage business. The reasons were common sense. DACA illegal aliens, or in media spin, DREAMERs, were not legal residents and weren’t being legalized.

Under Obama, FHA rules had been bent so far backward that people who were not only non-citizens, not only non-permanent residents, but weren’t even legally here, were having taxpayers guarantee their mortgages. Not only hadn’t the Democrats learned anything from the Great Recession, they were determined to make the irresponsible behavior of the FHA a decade ago seem sober and sensible.

And they aren’t giving up.

The December letter by Senator Menendez, who had recently been on trial for corruption charges, Senator Booker, on whose watch the $100 million poured into Newark public schools dissipated, and Senator Cortez-Mastro, who had been accused of taking dirty money, claimed to be, “appalled that the Trump Administration would exploit a federal government program to deny Dreamers an opportunity of owning their own home.” But it was the Democrats who had exploited a federal government program meant for poor Americans to benefit not only foreigners, but illegal aliens with no right to be here.

The letter by the three Senator Democrats falsely claimed that President Trump was targeting a “portion of the American public”, when in fact illegal aliens are not part of the American public. They demanded, “sound and unambiguous legal reasoning” for the move. The sound and unambiguous reasoning would be that illegal aliens are not legally resident in the United States and therefore do not qualify for loans.

Much of the furor over FHA loans for illegal aliens was stirred up by Dani Hernandez, an underwriter for NewCastle Home Loans. NewCastle in Chicago markets aggressively to DACA illegal aliens, declaring, “Don’t let the political climate worry you. DACA recipients are eligible to buy a home.” It also assures the illegal aliens that they can qualify for FHA loans and it “specializes in working with DACA recipients.”

Prospective FHA borrowers are also informed that they can get a loan with a credit score as low as 500 and a 50% debt-to-income ratio.

The illegal alien mortgage business, built on the backs of American taxpayers, is obviously profitable. But it’s also a silent nuclear weapon threatening mass destruction of the economy in case of deportations.

The more illegal aliens end up with FHA loans, and as those FHA loans are turned into Ginnie Mae Mortgage Backed Securities, deporting DACA illegal aliens would risk mass defaults on FHA loans which are backed by American taxpayers. Quite a few Ginnie Mae bonds are being held by Japan and China.

That’s why HUD’s move of stopping the flow of FHA loans to illegal aliens is so vital and important.

Not only do FHA loans endanger our economic security, they also endanger our national security. Their very existence serves as political leverage to prevent the government from enforcing the law. Every illegal alien mortgage not only robs American taxpayers, but puts them at risk of even worse losses.

And considering the role of mortgage backed securities in the Great Recession, the threat is real.

However, HUD has carefully avoided taking a clear position to prevent the inevitable lawsuits and overrides by Obama and Clinton judges embedded in the federal judiciary. Instead HUD officials have successfully warned off many lenders by creating ambiguity about the status of DACA FHA loans.

The riskier illegal alien FHA loans appear, the more irresponsible taking them on will seem. And lenders will be aware of the shadow of the “False Claims Act” hanging overhead if they bite on illegal loans.

This is far from an ideal solution. But it’s an understandable response by a crippled executive branch that has had its legal powers stripped from it by Democrat activists operating under the guise of judges.

But taxpayer-backed mortgages for illegal aliens are only the tip of the tottering FHA iceberg that President Trump needs to begin shutting down to avoid another recession caused by bad loans.

FHA loans to non-citizens are also extended to non-permanent residents and even to “refugees”. The Office of Refugee Resettlement had even been promoting Freddie Mac’s Islamic Sharia-compliant mortgages for Muslim “refugees”. Foreigners here under Temporary Protected Status, a category that the Trump administration has begun winding down, are also potentially eligible for FHA loans.

The FHA is deeply dangerous and troubled. It is in desperate need of reform.

American taxpayers have long been exploited by the FHA as a piggy bank to pay off Democrat voters. But DACA FHA loans have taken this a step further by taking the economy hostage for illegal aliens.

The FHA loan was created to serve Americans. If it is to continue to exist, it should only serve Americans.

There has never been any reason given why the United States government should be extending its credit on behalf of foreigners, whether they are residents, temporary workers or, let alone, illegal aliens.

The risk of such loans has been rolled into the overall risk for Americans. And the buck was passed.

The artificial stimulation of the housing market isn’t reason enough for the government to be putting the economy at risk and taxpayers on the hook for the illegal aliens whom Democrats hope to turn into voters. DACA was an illegal policy. FHA loans for DACA recipients piles illegality on illegality.

American taxpayers should be let off the hook for illegal alien mortgages before the cost grows too high.

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1   Goran_K   2019 Mar 28, 7:25am  

Is there anything illegal aliens do besides immediately start draining entitlement programs?
2   zzyzzx   2019 Mar 28, 7:53am  

Goran_K says
Is there anything illegal aliens do besides immediately start draining entitlement programs?


They vote.
3   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Mar 28, 8:51am  

This makes loan guys lots of money.
4   Bd6r   2019 Mar 28, 9:06am  

Goran_K says
Is there anything illegal aliens do besides immediately start draining entitlement programs?

And work for peanuts, thus allowing construction and meat packing companies earn $billions, while depressing wages for Americans.
5   Goran_K   2019 Mar 28, 9:08am  

d6rB says
Goran_K says
Is there anything illegal aliens do besides immediately start draining entitlement programs?

And work for peanuts, thus allowing construction and meat packing companies earn $billions, while depressing wages for Americans.


Seriously.

Zero positives from illegal immigration. Yet this is the democrat platform.
6   Bd6r   2019 Mar 28, 9:18am  

Goran_K says
Zero positives from illegal immigration.

A Lot Of Positives for a few mega-rich owners of Whatever Foods and Whatever Construction. Interesting that D's care about well-being of those.
7   HeadSet   2019 Mar 28, 10:40am  

d6rB says
Goran_K says
Zero positives from illegal immigration.

A Lot Of Positives for a few mega-rich owners of Whatever Foods and Whatever Construction. Interesting that D's care about well-being of those.


Votes. The reason for illegals getting drivers licenses. Illegal voting is in stages:

Stage One: Illegal voting is a myth, so no checking it out and no Voter ID
Stage Two: Yes, some illegal voting happened, but insignificant so no Voter ID
Stage Three: Yes, illegal aliens have been registered and voting in mass, but Illegals should vote in local elections anyway
Stage Four: Illegals have a right to vote, they live here, work and pay taxes.

We are at Stage Three.
8   anonymous   2019 Mar 28, 10:46am  

Goran_K says
Is there anything illegal aliens do besides immediately start draining entitlement programs?


Build the nation's housing, take care of the nation's landscaping needs, work in hotels, motels and similar as custodians, maids, housekeepers, etc. (just like at the Trump properties until they got caught - the. Trump organization, not the illegals) pretty much everything and anything that requires hard work at ridiculously low wages with minimal if any benefits..
9   Bd6r   2019 Mar 28, 10:50am  

Kakistocracy says
hard work at ridiculously low wages

Without massive numbers of illegals Masters of Universe would be forced to pay Americans more.
10   anonymous   2019 Mar 28, 10:55am  

d6rB says
Without massive numbers of illegals Masters of Universe would be forced to pay Americans more.


Living wages with benefits as well....
11   Bd6r   2019 Mar 28, 10:59am  

HEYYOU says
How many of these Masters are Republicans?

Most probably.
12   Bd6r   2019 Mar 28, 11:01am  

Kakistocracy says
Living wages with benefits as well....

Yep. But we can not hurt Masters of Universe in any way, that is their income of $trillion is still not enough and can not be decreased. R's just decreased their taxes, while D's provide them with an unlimited supply of slave labor (with quiet acquiescence of R's).
13   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Mar 28, 11:13am  

HeadSet says
We are at Stage Three.

Please append:

Stage Four: ... And collect social security.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-huckabee-blasts-gillibrand-plan-to-extend-social-security-to-illegal-immigrants

After all, if they pay into it, they ought to receive it.
14   HeadSet   2019 Mar 28, 11:52am  

Kakistocracy says
d6rB says
Without massive numbers of illegals Masters of Universe would be forced to pay Americans more.


Living wages with benefits as well....



If you really cared about living wages, you would support Trump in his efforts to bring manufacturing back and to close the borders to illegal immigration. Both Dems and Reps are resisting these efforts.
15   Fuckyouasshole   2019 Oct 12, 11:34am  

No job, no income, no citizenship no problemo

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