In another hugely important move out of the Trump Administration, the administration’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, Scott Turner, has been reviewing who is on public housing assistance to ensure that the programs are protected and kept intact for Americans, rather than illegal aliens.
That includes, as HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced in a letter and then reiterated a wonderful appearance on Fox News Channel in late August, an effort by HUD to investigate who is living on public housing assistance so that illegal aliens who are illegally using the program can be identified and removed from it. This comes in addition to the administration’s efforts to remove able-bodied adults, including citizens, from housing assistance after they spend two years on it.
Writing about the news policy at the time it was announced, Secretary Turner ordered every public housing authority to investigate who they are aiding so that they can be removed from it. He said, “No longer will illegal aliens be able to leave citizenship boxes blank or take advantage of HUD-funded housing, riding the coattails of hardworking American citizens.”
Further, Secretary Turner noted that Americans have been left in the cold because HUD was putting illegal aliens first and American citizens last, noting, “Currently, HUD only serves one out of four eligible families due, in part, to the lack of enforcement of prohibition against federally funded assistance to illegal aliens.”
Now that horrible state of things will change, as Secretary Turner told FNC guest host Charles Hurt on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” saying, “President Trump is serious not only in cleaning up the crime in our streets, but also American citizens will be prioritized when it comes to living in HUD-funded, government-funded housing.”
Continuing, Secretary Turner explained, “We just sent out a letter to the D.C. Housing Authority, and it has been received by them. And, as you said, they have 30 days to give us a full, comprehensive account of everyone living inside of D.C. housing that are receiving Section 8 vouchers or any type of HUD funding.”
He further added, “We want the names, the address, the number of people in the unit, the size of the unit, the cost of the unit. And they must give us their American citizenship status or eligible immigration status. No longer will we allow illegal aliens to live in taxpayer-funded housing here in America. In the last administration, in the Biden administration, they turned a blind eye. They didn’t collect the data.”
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Additionally, Turner noted that other criminals will be kicked out of HUD-supported housing, saying, “But those days are over. We are collecting the data to make sure they’re illegal aliens. And for that criminal activity, no one doing criminal activity is living in HUD-funded housing, which is literally on the backs of taxpayers in America.”
Watch him here:
Posting about the move on X, Secretary Turner said, “D.C. Housing Authority is on notice — we are demanding all citizenship information for residents. We are telling the same to the more than 3,000 Public Housing Authorities across the country. The taxpayer-funded vacation is over.”
Kristi Noem, announcing much the same thing back in March, said, “The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally. If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over.”
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