HUD threatens funding for public housing
authorities shielding illegal immigrants
Posted By: sunset, 8/28/2025 7:13:34 PM
President Donald Trump‘s Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving every public housing authority in the country 30 days to share citizenship status of tenants or risk losing their federal funding. By law, every PHA is required to share eligibility information, including citizenship status, with HUD. The Housing and Community Development Act specifically bars illegal immigrants from public housing programs. The letter gives each PHA 30 days from the receipt of the notice to fulfill the following six requests: 1. Identify all “mixed family” units, all units “by one or more individuals who do not contend that they have immigration status,” granted assistance without verifying immigration status
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‘Not enough’: S.F. offers $5K Airbnb
gift cards to residents ‘squatting’
in housing units 14 replies
gift cards to residents ‘squatting’
in housing units 14 replies
For over a year the San Francisco Housing Authority has tried to evict dozens of families the agency says are living illegally in a decrepit Potrero Hill public housing complex that is slated for demolition as part of a major redevelopment. Now with the project behind schedule and many of the eviction cases likely to be tied up in litigation for months, the authority is trying a new tactic to convince families to leave: Airbnb gift cards.
Resident Tania Guevara, an immigrant who has been living with her 13-year-old son in a Potrero apartment since 2023, said the housing authority sent her a letter offering a $5,000 Airbnb gift card
South Carolina called on the Supreme Court on Thursday to enforce the state’s transgender bathroom ban against a 13-year-old transgender boy. The Fourth Circuit issued an injunction earlier this month preventing South Carolina from banning a student identified as John Doe from using restrooms matching his gender identity. The Palmetto State argued that the limited injunction left the state “stuck between an impossible rock and hard place.”
“On the one hand, the Executive Branch demands, on pain of loss of federal funding, that schools apply Title IX as originally understood,”. “On the other hand, the Fourth Circuit has required Applicant Berkeley County School District to do exactly the opposite.”
President Donald Trump‘s Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving every public housing authority in the country 30 days to share citizenship status of tenants or risk losing their federal funding. By law, every PHA is required to share eligibility information, including citizenship status, with HUD. The Housing and Community Development Act specifically bars illegal immigrants from public housing programs. The letter gives each PHA 30 days from the receipt of the notice to fulfill the following six requests: 1. Identify all “mixed family” units, all units “by one or more individuals who do not contend that they have immigration status,” granted assistance without verifying immigration status
The Trump administration will on Thursday grant itself new permission to hire any attorney to serve as an immigration judge on a temporary basis, eschewing longstanding restrictions on who could serve in those roles.
The change gives Attorney General Pam Bondi wide latitude in selecting officials to oversee asylum and other cases pending before the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that runs the nation’s immigration courts. Since 2014, the department has allowed only former immigration judges, administrative law judges from other agencies or Justice attorneys with at least 10 years of experience related to immigration law to serve as temporary immigration judges
At least four people are dead, including a child, and 19 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago during the weekend, according to police. The ages of the victims range from 5 to 48. In the first shooting of the weekend, a 33-year-old woman was driving just before 7 p.m. in the 1900 block of West 66th Street when she suffered a gunshot wound to her right eye. Police said an unknown suspect inside a black vehicle fired multiple gunshots in the victim's direction and then fled in an unknown direction.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs officials announced Friday that the agency is redirecting nearly $45 million from public union costs to care for veterans. "VA staff will now get to spend more time with Veterans, VA facilities can focus on treating Veterans, and VA can manage its staff according to Veterans' needs and national security requirements, not union demands," VA Secretary Doug Collins said. Earlier this month, Veterans Affairs canceled its contracts with most unions on Wednesday, saying the unions fight against the best interests of veterans. When VA canceled those contacts, it cut the number of VA bargaining unit employees from about 375,000 to about 7,000.
A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday, according to a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The approval of the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, was announced last week by Smotrich and received final go-ahead from a defence ministry planning commission on Wednesday, he said. Restarting the project could further isolate Israel, which has watched some Western allies announce they may recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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An atheist began caring for the dying.
What he saw changed his view of faith
— and the afterlife 18 replies
What he saw changed his view of faith
— and the afterlife 18 replies
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Polls closed in Bolivia's most suspenseful general election in two decades on Sunday, in which the right is tipped to win power after nearly 20 years in opposition. Ballot counting got underway after eight hours of voting for president and for both houses of parliament, held against the backdrop of a generational economic crisis. The Andean nation's ailing economy has seen annual inflation hit almost 25 percent with critical shortages of fuel and dollars, the currency in which most Bolivians keep their savings. (snip) Both men want to slash public spending, open the country to foreign investment and boost ties with the United States,
Last week US Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed DOJ official Ed Martin as special prosecutor to investigate Democrat Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James over allegations of mortgage fraud.
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Florida’s immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will probably be empty of detainees within days, a state official has said, indicating compliance with a judge’s order last week that the facility must close.
The Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s administration appealed the order by federal court judge Kathleen Williams that the tented detention camp in the Florida Everglades, which attracted criticism for its harsh conditions, must be dismantled within 60 days.
But in an email reported Wednesday by the Associated Press, Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida department of emergency management, which operates the jail on behalf of the federal government, appeared to confirm it would be shuttered.
Embattled Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook hit
with 2nd criminal referral from Trump
housing director 25 replies
with 2nd criminal referral from Trump
housing director 25 replies
A second criminal referral was filed against Lisa Cook on Thursday, alleging the embattled Federal Reserve Board governor may have made “misrepresentations” on mortgage documents and government disclosures. The complaint to the Justice Department was lodged by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, who was the source of the initial criminal referral that President Trump is using to attempt to fire Cook “for cause.” “3 strikes and you’re out. Today, US Federal Housing sent a 2nd Criminal Referral in the matter of Lisa D. Cook,
related to a mortgage on a 3rd property and alleged misrepresentations
about her properties
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Baltimore has the third-highest rate of violent crime, while Chicago ranks 29th among cities with at least 500,000 residents, according to the latest FBI data.
Trump’s focus on cities in blue states — those led by Democratic governors — with Black mayors has drawn criticism from Democrats,
Former Vice President Kamala Harris lost her Secret Service protection Thursday after President Donald Trump withdrew the privilege. An Oval Office directive instructs the agency to discontinue all security procedures beyond those required by law, effective September 1, Newsweekreports.(snip)Harris originally had her protection extended by Biden from beyond the traditional six months previously afforded VP’s after they leave office. CNN notes Biden’s order to extend was secret – not made public until now – signed by him shortly before leaving office, according to multiple people familiar with the undisclosed arrangement.
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Trips Over Herself
Trying to Use Minnesota School Shooting
to Score Points 23 replies
Trying to Use Minnesota School Shooting
to Score Points 23 replies
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki wasted no time at all trying to capitalize on the horrific school shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday. Police responded to the ghastly scene at the school shortly before 8:27 a.m. local time. After the dust settled, authorities revealed that two children died and 17 people were injured during the attack. Less than three hours later, Psaki, the Democratic flack-turned-de facto-Democratic flack, was doing the only thing she knows how to. “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids
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The mother of transgender Minneapolis mass shooter Robin Westman is not cooperating with police in the investigation, authorities announced on Thursday.
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“We have not been successful in talking to the shooter’s mother,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.
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NPR host issues gender 'clarification'
after Klobuchar refers to Minnesota shooter
as 'he' 20 replies
after Klobuchar refers to Minnesota shooter
as 'he' 20 replies
An NPR host issued a clarification Wednesday after Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., referred to the Annunciation Catholic School shooter in Minneapolis as a "he" during an interview with the outlet. In an interview with NPR host Ailsa Chang, conducted hours after the killings, Klobuchar used male pronouns to refer to the deceased shooter. After the interview ended, Chang noted the gender of the shooter was "unclear." "And just a point of clarification, Senator Klobuchar referenced the shooter as ‘he.’ Although police have identified a suspect, it's still unclear at this time what that person's gender is or how they identify,''
The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was raped by a Somali migrant has said her family has received death threats from the Somali community, according to a memo written by state prosecutors.
Earlier this year, Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie was found guilty of first-degree sexual assault after being charged for raping a 12-year-old girl who was playing in her backyard.
Minnesota bishop rebukes Dem mayor for
dismissing prayer following deadly Catholic
school attack 17 replies
dismissing prayer following deadly Catholic
school attack 17 replies
Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron sharply criticized Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for dismissing calls for prayer following Wednesday’s deadly Catholic school shooting, calling the mayor’s remarks "completely asinine." "Catholics don’t think that prayer magically protects them from all suffering. After all, Jesus prayed fervently from the cross on which he was dying," Barron told Fox News Digital.
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The demand letter covers all the bases. All responses and non-responses will be reviewed and screened by Department of Homeland Security. Go USA!