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A Basic Reality Check

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On Monday, The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article about the experiences of someone who was not thrilled with the Trump presidency and decided to flee to Canada. It didn’t go as planned.

The article reports:

A self-proclaimed ‘scholar of the far right’ was blasted on social media after she ‘fled’ the United States to Canada.

Nope Brigade is an academic researcher who studies conservative and right-wing ideologies, and recently ‘fled’ from the current Trump administration to Vancouver – one of the world’s priciest cities.

Brigade posted a social media video begging for help after she and her family moved from Los Angeles, only to be hit with an even worse affordability crisis. 

‘For those who don’t know, the housing crisis here is way worse than the US,’ she said in the video.

‘I lived in LA for six years and I have not faced rent as bad as here.’

Brigade explained that she, her partner, and their pets moved to Vancouver on a visitor visa, which prevents them from working. 

They relocated with savings set aside, but are quickly burning through the funds and struggling to afford skyrocketing rent. 

‘In Canada, I think the cost of living crisis is worse here,’ she said.

…’Especially when you are shut out of the healthcare system and can’t access any of the resources that Canadians have access to.

‘And that’s understandable, I’m not a citizen of the country, but it is making the financial situation dire.’

Most visitor visas allow stays of up to six months, and work permits are only granted to those with a temporary resident permit valid for six months or longer, according to the Government of Canada. 

After bemoaning the situation, she asked for a place to stay, specifying that they wanted more than just a room – ideally for free or at below-market rates. 

Ms. Brigade posted a video on X asking for free housing because she can’t afford to live in Canada without a job. Here is the solution. Come to America as an illegal immigrant–you will get healthcare, food stamps, great housing and free money. (Oh, wait a minute–those things are on the chopping block–we are becoming more like Canada). Notice she kept talking about having to flee America. At any rate, she didn’t know how good she had it in America!

Making The Only Reasonable Political Move

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Recently, the California legislature passed a bill providing up to $150,000 to help illegal aliens purchase homes in the state. Never mind that in California $150,000 might buy you a garage if you are lucky. Well, Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill. Aside from the fact that the State can’t afford the cost, I believe that he is eyeing a presidential run in 2028 and does not want that bill on his record.

Politico posted an article about the veto on Friday.

The article states:

The Democratic governor’s veto comes a day after former President Donald Trump said he would ban undocumented immigrants from receiving home mortgages if he returns to the White House. It also takes the issue off the table ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’ first scheduled debate against Trump next week. Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson, described the California bill last month as “fundamentally unfair but typical Democrat policy.”

The article also notes:

Newsom has repeatedly warned fellow Democrats in Sacramento not to provide cannonfire for Republicans in an election year, issuing pleas for them to tamp down the raging culture wars rather than provoke them with hot-button issues ranging from banning youth tackle football to reparations. On other proposals that were unlikely to become law, he pushed state Democrats to subordinate their virtue signaling so conservative media outlets couldn’t paint the state as wildly out of touch with America.

Newsom’s concerns have only grown since the elevation of Harris as the party’s nominee, since she hails from California. At a briefing Friday on an unrelated topic, the governor denied that he was trying to send a message to lawmakers in his party, saying he vetoed the bill on its merits.

“The bill that was sent to me was [on] a program that had no money, and it was expanding eligibility to a program that had no money,” Newsom said. “It seemed rather curious to me. So it was unnecessary and completely consistent with prior vetoes along those similar lines.”

Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who represents a rural Northern California district and ran against Newsom in the 2022 gubernatorial race, said in an interview that the governor did the right thing. But, Dahle said, he believes Newsom was in fact “reading the tea leaves” on the political implications of the bill.

Passing this bill will have created more scarcity in an already scarce housing market and increased the price of housing–both in rentals and in purchases. Also, at a time when crime by illegal aliens is rapidly increasing, it might not be a good idea to give them further incentives to come to America.