The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a new rule Friday to make people seeking housing assistance have to prove their legal status, in a move that could oust millions of illegal immigrants.
Secretary Ben Carson said the rule would bring policy into compliance with the law, which generally tries to restrict public benefits to citizens and legal residents. “There is an affordable housing crisis in this country, and we need to make certain our scarce public resources help those who are legally entitled to it,” Carson said.
The new rules require applicants to have their information run through the federal database which is used to weed illegal immigrants out of other public benefit programs.
Families already in public housing would have to be checked.
DEMOCRATS were incensed, calling the move an “attack” and warning of a rise in homelessness in illegal immigrant families.
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