OAN Staff Blake Wolf
10:34 AM – Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sang her praises for the new California bill AB 1840, which would allow illegal immigrants to be eligible for first-time home buyer loans.
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The bill would require the California Housing Finance Authority’s home purchase assistance program, known as the “California Dream for All” Program, to provide taxpayer-funded loans to illegal aliens for “homeownership housing.”
Along with the home loans for illegals, Pelosi also expressed her interest in “[moving] them to documented,” which many have questioned if this was the whole plan all along.
Pelosi was asked about her thoughts on the bill’s passing during a Friday appearance on the popular late night show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“California lawmakers just passed a law – it hasn’t been signed by Gov. Newsom – but giving government assistance to undocumented immigrants to buy houses,” Maher stated to Pelosi. “That’s kind of a different place than the Democratic Party used to be on immigration, is it not? I’m not going to say that’s what the country is going to do, but that’s certainly where California is.”
“Well, let me just say immigration has always been a bipartisan issue. I refer you to–” Pelosi stated.
“But not free houses,” Maher interjected.
“Well, that’s not free housing. It’s the American dream being available to more people,” Pelosi responded. “But understand this about immigration. The best speech on immigration was by President Ronald Reagan. ‘This is the last speech I will make as president of the United States. I want to communicate a message to the country I love.’ And he talked about the Statue of Liberty and the beacon of hope it is to the world and what America was preeminent to the world because our door was always open. And we will cease to be preeminent when we shut the door.”
Pelosi continued, “Now, I don’t do justice to the great communicator. Google it. It’s a fabulous speech, and George Herbert Walker Bush continued in that respect for the diversity of America and the rest. California is always in the lead. Maybe others will follow that lead, but that’s up to those states. But we are very blessed here with beautiful diversity.”
“So you’d vote for this law?” Maher asked.
“Well, I’m not familiar with exactly what that is, but making the American dream of homeownership available to all people is something we have to do for people who are here now,” Pelosi added.
“This is before you’re a citizen. This is for the undocumented,” Maher responded.
“Well, what I would like to do is move them to documented,” Pelosi stated. “One of the best things we can do for our economy is pass comprehensive immigration reform.”
California is among the most difficult states in the country to find housing, with a severe lack of affordable housing already impacting native-born residents. The United States was short more than 4.5 million housing units in 2022, according to Zillow, with the top 50 major metropolises experiencing the greatest housing shortages including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Riverside, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose, all in California.
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