November 10, 2005

Home loans for illegal aliens facing resistance in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Assembly recently passed a bill requiring the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) to only give home loans to people with Social Security Numbers. As discussed here in the past, WHEDA has been giving home loans to illegal aliens, and the head of that organization, Antonio Riley, fully supports that practice: "Wisconsin Program Helps Illegal Aliens Get Mortgages". For more, see this and this.

One can expect that the linked article would provide the other side's best points, and the only one that's not just a specious far-left talking point is this:

The fact that immigrants have taxpayer IDs does not mean that they are here illegally, said Rep. Tamara Grigsby, D-Milwaukee. "The process of becoming a citizen takes time."

Unfortunately, I believe she's either wrong or just supporting illegal immigration. See socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10107.html Legal immigrants can get SSNs. So, either she's wrong about the law, or she's referring to illegal aliens who are trying to become legal.

With that out of the way, let's see if Anita Weier isn't telling her readers the truth about this matter. First of all, the title of the article is "Assembly passes bill that would curtail immigrants' mortgages". That's false: they aren't "immigrants", they're illegal aliens. Likewise with this:

In a move targeting immigrants, the state Assembly voted 58-38 to bar the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority from making, buying or assuming home mortgage loans for a person who does not have a Social Security number.

"Targeting" has such negative connotations, does it not? I guess that's why she used that word. And, once again, they're illegal aliens and not "immigrants".

The proposal, yet to be considered by the state Senate, could stop a program begun in 2004 that backs mortgage loans that banks make to immigrants who have individual taxpayer identification numbers. It is a program that has helped Latinos obtain mortgages...

Once again, her language isn't precise, resulting in her readers not being told the truth. And, there's that little race-baiting at the end: if you oppose giving mortgages to illegal aliens, you're opposed to helping "Latinos" get mortgages.

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Posted to Immigration2005b at November 10, 2005 02:45 PM

Comments

A alien is a alien and a illegal alien is a criminal.

No one should have the rights to a homes or business's that did not come here lawfully, the fact is the reason why so many Aliens have rights to home social security is for dismantling all rights inside this non nation.

The reason why so many are here in the first place is because our non government is made up of illegal aliens, check out how many are from mexico or "south so called America",

see the record and how so many vote and above all see who that person in power is married to. check out the link's to and where the money comes from and you will understand why we have this kind of evil happening.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at November 10, 2005 09:35 PM

"negative connotations"

Yes, it does, or can.

Therefore because it should be obvious to any fair-minded person what the intent of the legislation is, i.e. that it 'targets' illegal aliens, not "immigrants" (who can easily get an SSN, as you point out), it should also be obvious how unprofessionally written and edited this story is.

Yet you see this sort of thing -- the subtle and not so subtle injection of what amounts to editorial bias into ordinary news stories -- ALL THE TIME.

Posted by: eh at November 11, 2005 03:10 AM